Did the Minister group this with another question?

We are going to run out of time, I am afraid, so both the Minister and the Deputies can contribute once. We will run out of time in two minutes.

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Mattie McGrath - To discuss the functions and operations of Tusla. Deputy Bernard Durkan - To discuss the current impasse at Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, and the lack of State access to the property from the N4. Deputy Paul Murphy - To discuss the metro south west campaign. Deputy Marian Harkin - To discuss fees to community optometrist…

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - The need to provide a full range of services in CDNT4. Deputy David Cullinane - To discuss the business case submitted by Waterford Airport for funding to extend the runway. Deputies Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Patrick Costello - To discuss the need to establish a multiagency task force for Dublin 8. Deputy Seán Sherlock - To discuss the non-p…

Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit as a ardú céime. Go n-éirí leis ina ról nua mar Aire Stáit.

Ar aghaidh anois go dtí an tríú Saincheist Tráthúil in ainmneacha na dTeachtaí Seán Sherlock agus Duncan Smith: to discuss the non-payment of pension increases due to retired An Post workers. As the Deputies are sharing time, they have two minutes each.

What a sentence.

Tá an t-ádh dearg ort inniu. You are lucky today because there are just three Topical Issues.

So I understand.

Beidh sos beag againn.

I am glad the Taoiseach is here. This is my second time to raise this issue in the Dáil. I raised it in the Taoiseach's absence with the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, and have written to her. It is really serious. Deputy Kelly raised it in the context of Borrisokane. I am raising it in respect of Galway. An eviction notice has been served on those who have been in accommodation for two or three years, embedded in the community. I know the local school. There are any number of families with eviction notices for variou…

They have been told to go to emergency accommodation but there is no emergency accommodation.

This is inhuman.

In the three minutes and 15 seconds speaking time I have, I will focus on my experiences and on what I have read. I will start with the seminal work by Erin Pizzey from 1974, Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear . The title captures what women were enduring. Fifty years later women are still enduring the same thing, notwithstanding the progress made in the third national strategy and the setting up of an agency. Forgive me, in the short speaking time I have, if I do not dwell on those developments but on the …

The two motions will be debated together but they will be moved separately and decided separately.

I welcome the opportunity to take part in the debate. I deplore the fact that we have such little time for it. The Tánaiste ran out of time himself in his speech. I have five minutes in this very restricted debate to deal with two motions you are putting before us to approve, which is not possible. I certainly will not be supporting you. Then you add insult to injury by telling us that there was a good debate at the relevant committee. I understand that debate lasted an hour and a half. You have made a speech tonig…

Interestingly, in respect of the report on the service of members of the Defence Forces with the UN, which one of the motions proposes to accept, rather than giving us an outline - although you pay tribute to the personnel, which I welcome - and highlighting the fantastic peacekeeping work they do and the lives they have saved, almost two pages of your speech tonight were devoted to the triple lock. You refer to the consultative committee. You used that report on our peacekeeping forces serving abroad to tell us ab…

You have not included it in either of your reports.

I would love to.

The Minister is asking for an interaction. Can we do it through the Chair on both sides? The Minister has the floor.