My reference was to a specific recommendation in section 6.

I was asked to ask this question by representatives of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings group. On 21 May 1975, the then Deputy Tom J. Fitzpatrick replied to a question in the Dáil and when speaking of an An Garda Síochána investigation into the Dublin-Monaghan bombings said: "They have no positive information or evidence that would clearly identify the culprits." We know there were eyewitness accounts from the day placing a certain loyalist in a car in Dublin that day. His photograph was then picked out of evidence boo…

This is my question, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Government security committee was briefed by the Garda on the investigations into the bombings, during which members of the Garda briefed the security committee that it had no suspects. Will the Tánaiste hand over this information to the relatives when he meets them after the local elections? That is the information they are looking for.

This was a question about the Government security committee.

However, which gardaí?

I also welcome the Palestinian ambassador here today and everyone who was in the Gallery earlier. I will start by sending solidarity to the 1 million Palestinians besieged by the Israeli onslaught in Rafah. Ireland and the world is standing in shock and horror at what we are seeing unfold. Now we must come together to force Israel to stop this genocide. It was a proud day last week when Ireland stood in front of the world along with Spain and Norway and announced we would recognise Palestinian statehood. We will no…

And then take actions.

Publish it.

Last month the country's leading cancer specialist published an open letter to the Government on the state of cancer care in Ireland. It said dedicated funding for Ireland’s national cancer strategy has been delivered in only two of the past seven budgets. It said Ireland’s cancer outcomes are at risk of going backwards. Yesterday it was reported that there is another layer of inequality on top of a backward step. Professor Michaela Higgins, president of the Irish Society of Medical Oncology, stated with regard to …

Yesterday, we welcomed some members of the families of the 27 victims of the Dublin bombing and the seven who lost their lives in Monaghan, along with representatives of the Justice for the Forgotten group, to the Dáil for the debate on Sinn Féin's motion for the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. I welcomed that motion and the families welcomed the fact that the Government also supported it. However, one thing the motion failed to address is the fact that the families of the victims of those two…

Last night, the Tánaiste said in this House: Today, we mourn with [the families] the great loss suffered by the victims of the bombs of 17 May 1974. We offer our humble acknowledgement of the obstacles [they] have overcome and the mountain [they] have climbed to get your campaign to where it is today. We recognise our own past shortcomings as a State and political system. On this 50th anniversary commemoration, we have to recognise that. More than anything, the families would welcome the Government stepping in and …

I have raised several times the severe lack of certain services across the Dublin 12 area due to a localised lack of public health nurses. We have seen resources taken from one centre and given to another, as was the case with the temporary transfer of nurses from Curlew Road in Drimnagh to Armagh Road in Crumlin. There is one public health nurse for child checks and one for older persons. People still cannot get services for themselves, their children and their families. We need an increased service in Dublin 12. …

The question was on the primary care centre.

I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. I wish to warmly welcome the survivors, relatives and members of the Justice for the Forgotten group who are in the Public Gallery this evening. I had the privilege of meeting them today for the first time. I have to say that I am disappointed in myself and I apologise to them for not playing more of a role and linking in with them as a civilian and public representative. I hope I will be able to assist them in the future. This was one of Ireland's worst atrocities. Three …

I received an email from the Dublin 12 Campaign 4 Autism Inclusion about today's debate. The group asked me to raise special education provision in the Crumlin and Drimnagh areas. They feel they have been forgotten, even though a special needs school, for which they campaigned, opened in Crumlin recently. They say that Dublin 12 still needs autism classes, especially at secondary schools such as Drimnagh Castle Secondary School, Assumption Secondary School and Loreto College. The secondary school on Mourne Road has…

I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. First, I thank Deputy Harkin for bringing this motion to the Dáil Chamber today. It is a very important discussion to take place. The Minister of State really only referenced the nursing home area in this, and the motion also raised the issue of childcare.

Okay.

That is no problem. I did not hear the Minister of State say that. I genuinely feel that what we are seeing in our childcare and nursing home sectors are the same old repeated failures of this Government and successive governments under Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, with the PDs wagging the tail of the dog a few decades ago with their neoliberal agenda of privatisation of our public services, mismanagement and bad planning, failure to engage with the stakeholders that matter and a determination to put big businesses' …

It sounds a bit like "Groundhog Day". I have been raising this issue for the last year. I raised it in last March and April in relation to the Curlew Road, Armagh Road and Old County Road health centres. We were told that two teams were to be put into Armagh Road, or rather that there were 4.6 public health nurses between Armagh Road and Curlew Road and they were going to be put into the former centre. Two of them would be looking after the child developmental checks and two would be looking after elderly persons' …

The Minister replied to me last May saying that the HSE had established a community nursing national oversight group in 2022. What has that group done? We have known that there is a crisis in public health nursing for the last two, three and four years. What are we doing to fundamentally resolve that issue? It is a postcode thing. Children in areas like Drimnagh, Crumlin, Walkinstown and Islandbridge are not getting their developmental checks. I have also had to represent a number of elderly people who are trying t…