Does the Minister know what the Government is doing to farmers? Are they aware of what they are doing at all? My God, it is terrible.

This is a very important debate about co-ordination of services. I am concerned over how the Minister, Deputy Coveney, and Fianna Fáil Deputies are trying to confuse the debate by talking about immigrants who come here working. I have respect for all those people who come here working - as much as the Minister, Deputy Coveney, or anybody else. I have employed people from every part of the world at different times. Since being elected to Kerry County Council more than 20 years ago, I have helped and worked with the …

I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about the horror in Gaza and Israel. It is terrible to see small children with their small lives snuffed out by bombs and bullets. We are a very small country. All we can do is ask that there be a ceasefire. I wonder where the UN peacekeeping force is. Why is it not intervening or at least attempting to intervene? It is fine to have courts. We do not know the answer the court will deliver because there have been atrocities on both sides but it is clear that the Israeli side …

And Radio Kerry.

I am glad to get the opportunity to talk about important matters relating to Kerry. The Killarney bypass is otherwise known as the Cork-Kerry economic corridor. Gladly part of that was opened between Baile Bhuirne and Macroom, but our side of it from Farranfore to Lissivigeen and from Lissivigeen to Castlelough on the Muckross Road is a vital project to help alleviate the traffic jams on the Killarney bypass we have now. There are 23,000 vehicle movements each day on that at the height of the season, and it may be …

I thank Deputy Ó Broin and Sinn Féin for bringing forward the Bill and giving us a chance to talk about renters and housing. Renters in many parts of Kerry are having severe difficulty finding a house to rent. The houses that are available may be too expensive. Landlords are sceptical of the HAP system and unwilling to accept the payment. There are houses to be found but many landlords have left the market because they can only get €700 or €800 a month in rent for the property and they would pay half of that in tax…

It has been indicated by the Department of agriculture that more than 18,000 farmers who have applied under the ACRES co-operation project stream will not be paid until next February at the earliest. This is not acceptable. Farmers need money for Christmas like everyone else. After a very tough year weather-wise - bad weather makes every chore more expensive and fodder is scarce and expensive - they have bills to pay like everyone else. If the Government cannot pay farmers 100%, I ask that it at least pays them 50%…

There are 18,000 farmers who will not be paid until February.

I am glad to get a chance to talk on this most important debate. I will not be told what to say or not to say or be muzzled in this Chamber, outside it or anywhere else. I take exception to Members of this Chamber calling me various names when I put something forward here. That has not been corrected yet. Even outside the Chamber, we have been called cowards. Anyone who knows the Healy-Raes, going back as far as I can remember, will know none of them was ever a coward. I am not afraid of those who make these allega…

Sorry, a Chathaoirligh Gníomhach, we are no cowards. We will not take that language at all.

We were never cowards. Never in our lives were we cowards and I will not take that from this blackguard either.

We never said that.

What did the Deputy do-----

How many Garda stations did the Deputy's party close? It reduced the force by 1,000.

I will not take that rubbish at all, without telling him the truth.

We did more for the outsiders than Deputy Ó Ríordáin and his gang will ever do.

There were no falsehoods.

I was elected by the people of Kerry to come up in here-----

-----and them and them alone will put me out of it.

I never said-----