Many working people have been-----

They will not let me talk, a Cheann Comhairle. I do not interrupt them people, but you know something, I will from now on.

I will have something to say to Deputy Bacik as well.

She was the person who said she would build 1 million homes. Now she is proposing adding another bicycle shed.

Since when did she become McAlpine?

She wants a bicycle shed outside the door while people in Kerry are suffering trying to keep going.

It is the truth.

Ivana McAlpine.

You do not show it.

Many businesses have already closed, and many others were waiting and hoping the Government would reduce the VAT to 9%. It did not do that. The Taoiseach talks about the €4,000. What about the people whose rates went up from €20,000 to €80,000 or from €5,000 to €20,000? How will the €4,000 help them? The Government is trying to fool the people but, like the man who came out in the pouring rain to me last Saturday, they are waiting for the Government on the doorstep. Speaking of the carers, the Government has been d…

I was never told that. I am talking about the budget. How many issues is that? There are a lot of problems for the people I am representing. You must write out your rules. I thought I was talking about the budget. What else am I talking about? It is all connected to the budget. There are people interrupting me over here and over there, and the Ceann Comhairle is stuck in me now. What hope have I or the people of Kerry if we cannot highlight their issues?

The Government let them down. It had the opportunity. It has more money spent under Members' noses and eyes on huts and bicycle sheds-----

It ordained them and paid for them.

At the same time, as regards the OPW, there are so many more rivers. It happened in Bunane this week. They could not go up the road because the Government will not let anyone clear out the river. It has gone-----

There is nothing for it in the budget.

After about ten years.

The Killarney bypass has been waiting for 24 years, and you are talking about-----

You had nothing to do with the ordaining of it anyway - not one bit in the world. It was ten years ago.

There was no account of you.

The Social Action Group Rathmore day services have been in operation almost 32 years. They have grown and expanded to a state-of-the-art facility and are often referred to as the gold standard for the type of services provided. However, this year and next the services face substantial financial difficulty, with projections of a €62,000 deficit this year and a €68,000 one next year. Furthermore, the services have borne the cost of providing section 39 workers with the necessary increment agreed by the workplace comm…