It is up to two years.

I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this very important Bill. I appreciate the attempts that have been made to reduce the cost of renting for students and, indeed, for all renters. There are many of them out there. Something needed to be done because some landlords were looking for two months' rent as a deposit and a month's rent upfront. For many people, that is not attainable. They cannot pay that amount and have not been able to do so. One of the biggest hurdles that a family has to overcome is to prov…

-----and they will have to wake up because the people are aware of them.

It is a basic human right in a civilised, modern society to have a safe, clean, uninterrupted water supply. It may be construed that I have a conflict of interest because my company sometimes works on repairing and replacing water mains. However, in many parts of Kerry, especially mid-Kerry and the Killarney area, residents, businesses and hotels are faced with a constant barrage of outages day after day. Residents in places like Barleymount, Aghadoe, Laharan, Pallas and Beaufort, from the Gap of Dunloe and all alo…

I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. It is very clear that Irish Water is underfunded and the pipes need to be replaced and updated. It is costing a bomb to keep repairing the breaks that are going on. The break in Farranfore costs, I believe, €35,000 each time it happens. That is a massive sum of money. I will also highlight that people in other rural areas of Kerry, such as east Kerry, Scartaglin, Castleisland, Lyracrumpane and Fieries, cannot afford to pay for group water schemes. The user cost is approximately €…

I thank the Labour Party for opening up the debate but I do not agree with the proposal that seeks to give local authorities authority to issue compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, for land in order to build houses. That is wrong. The Planning Regulator is dezoning land. I believe we should zone more land around towns and villages or, otherwise, not zone any land but let every planning application go through on its merits, whether that is through the local authority or An Bord Pleanála. Dezoning land is giving a monop…

I am glad to get the opportunity to speak on this Bill and rebut some of the things that have been said by Deputy Cairns. It was very unfair of her to say she did not know any farmer who was doing his best not to do harm to the land he was working. That is totally and absolutely untrue.

I did not interrupt you.

I did not interrupt you.

Deputy Cairns is running down my time now.

I heard what the Deputy said. She is wrong. A whole lot of farmers-----

She certainly did say it.

I am glad to get the opportunity to speak-----

Deputy Sherlock should go down to Ballyhoura Cross and do something about the road over to Kildorrery. He attacked me in my absence on another day.

The Deputy is well out of order.

The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan-----

If the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is saying she did not say it, I will take her word on it and take that back.

I will take your word for it, not Deputy Sherlock's. He attacked me when I was not inside here. He should do something about the road from Ballyhoura Cross into Kildorrery where lorries cannot park or turn right without driving up on the ditches.

I said that if the Leas-Cheann Comhairle said I was wrong, I am wrong and I am sorry.

The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, does not have a monopoly on the environment. Farmers have adapted a lot of new and valuable methods, be it for spreading slurry, storing slurry, spreading under the nitrates directive or spreading less fertiliser. They have been doing their best at a great cost. They were told to increase their herds by the then Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, seven or eight years ago. Now they are being told they must reduce their herd by 51%. That is not fair or righ…