It took years to make the rehab unit state of the art. My own family benefited from it. It has been closed down to benefit the private hospital to justify the Minister's contract that we never saw because it is commercially sensitive. To try to understand this, really it is like something from Kafka. We put its public patients into a private hospital. It is mind-boggling. I am not here to blame but I am certainly here to have a better public health system, as well as better public housing. That simply is not happen…

I wish to share time with Deputy Fitzmaurice. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as a chuid oibre agus a dhúthracht. Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil a chroí san áit cheart agus go bhfuil croíthe fhoireann na Roinne san áit cheart freisin. Tá an t-uafás ama tógtha agus ní raibh sé ceart nach raibh guth na ngasúr le cloisteáil in aon áit. Invisible Children is ea teideal na cáipéise a chuireann síos ar chomh deacair is atá sé ó 2019 go dtí an lá atá inniu ann áit a fháil i scoileanna agus is é an cúlra atá leis seo. Tá a fhios …

Is that agreed? Agreed.

I call Deputies Michael Moynihan and Devlin. There will be no time for a response from the Minister.

The Minister has 20 seconds, if he wants them. I will be stopping him when the time is up.

I am really sorry, Minister, but the Deputies did not leave enough time. I will be intervening all the time because this is a two-hour session and I wish to make sure every speaker gets time to contribute. I apologise. Táimid ag bogadh ar aghaidh go dtí Sinn Féin.

Certainly, yes. The Minister is waiting for questions.

I am afraid the Deputy has run out of time. There may be a minute at the end. Is Deputy Durkan speaking?

Deputy Durkan has left some time so the Minister might address the issues raised. If Deputy Durkan wants to come back in again he can.

The next party to speak is the Social Democrats. I call Deputy Cairns.

I must cut off the Minister there. Moving on to the Regional Group, I call Deputy Naughten.

The Minister has one minute, literally.

I am really sorry but I must stop the Minister. The way the time was used was Deputy Naughten's choice, and each Member has that choice. I am really sorry but I must move on to the Rural Independent Group.

Moving on to the Independent Group, are there three speakers?

In terms of the time to be used, is it five minutes each?

I am sharing time. The Minister of State and I have disagreed in the past and we will disagree again today.

I am not sure where his 10,000 social houses are but there is no substantial number in Galway. The targets for acquisition and social housing have been reached in Galway because they were set so low. At something more than 100 units, one would have to reach it. Meanwhile, the Government is exceeding its targets for the housing assistance payment, HAP. It is putting people into HAP tenancies and rewarding local authorities for exceeding their targets, which is not sustainable. There is a major housing crisis and a t…

Did the Department approve it?

Just to take the Minister up on that last point that the NTA is now working on park-and-ride, I had the privilege of being mayor of Galway for 2004 to 2005. Then we fought a determined battle against management to include park-and-ride in our city development plan. However, city management did not think it was appropriate. We put it in and it remained as an objective. Fifteen years later, we still have no park-and-ride in Galway. I am not sure where the NTA is at with regard to that. Park-and-ride has simply never …

Táim sásta go bhfuil dul chun cinn ó thaobh na scéime faoi leith i mí Iúil. Chaith mé a lán ama sa Dáil seo ag cur brú ar an Aire agus ar an Rialtas chun rud a dhéanamh. Táim ag tnúth leis an díospóireacht an tseachtain seo chugainn. I am looking forward to next week's debate on the July provision on special needs. I will not spend any more time on it, but certainly it was utterly neglected. I thank the Minister for the progress in that regard. Special schools, just like nursing homes and residential centres, shoul…