There is still not a single room in the hospital built, so the Minister has much larger problems than grilles.

And still not a single room has been completed.

Hear, hear.

Another promise.

This time last year when I took to my feet, I warned that the Government's funding of the health service was chaotic. I said that the health service would need a very significant bailout, in the region of €1.5 billion at least and possibly higher. I was joined in this by the head of the HSE but, as the Minister might recall, there was serious pushback from the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for public expenditure and reform who said that we were alarmist, that we were wrong and that the health service wou…

It is scandalous.

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

I will speak to Financial Resolution No. 2 on the VAT on gas and electricity. Households continue to struggle under the weight of high energy bills. We know that electricity prices over the past three years have increased by almost 50% and gas prices have increased by more than 84%. Irish electricity prices remain among the highest in the European Union. All the while this is happening, the Government has refused to apply a windfall tax on electricity companies, allowing them to keep record profits at the expense o…

Take it to the Chief Whip.

Take it up with your Chief Whip.

We agree with you.

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

Consider the many debates we have had in this Chamber about vulture funds swooping in and buying up homes, in some cases buying up housing estates and in some cases apartment blocks. We have had debates like this and the Ministers across the Chamber shrugged their shoulders, saying, "What can we do?". Today the Minister has an opportunity to do something and again this week the Government simply increased the stamp duty from 10% to 15%. What planet is the Minister living on? These vulture funds are coming in and bu…

I am sharing time with my colleagues. Sinn Féin will support the Bill. This legislation provides, in the main, for digital health records. Digital transformation is essential to improve patient safety, bring the health service into the 21st century, improve productivity, efficiency and value for money, and to properly hold the system to account. Accessible patient records are at the core of enabling better healthcare. Late in the day, at the end of the Dáil term, the Government has arrived with legislation that was…

I move: That Dáil Éireann: condemns the abandonment of patients in Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary following the wholesale cancellation of scheduled and planned care for several weeks at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) in August 2024; notes the forthcoming publication of the report of the independent investigation by retired Chief Justice, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, into the care of Ms Aoife Johnston and her tragic, premature passing in 2022; acknowledges that a review of emergency and urgent care services in the M…

The Government is not opposing the motion, is that correct?

I thank the Minister of State.