We have a second cath lab now in Waterford. It is great that we have it. I visited it in the last few weeks. I want to thank all the Deputies who voted for the budget that paid for it-----

-----but I do not think the Deputy is one of them. The next step, and I discussed this with the management and the doctors when I visited, is to get that second cath lab commissioned and staffed and to extend the hours to a seven-day-a-week service from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. That is what they want to do and I support them in wanting to do that.

Moving to 24-7 is a future step. It needs to be subject to further review and we need to be sure we can staff it, and that is a serious point. We need to be sure it is safe.

In all of Leinster, there are 2.5 million people, and we have been able to staff only two cath labs 24-7. Asking skilled people to work 24-7 for the rest of their lives is a big ask and it is one that will be hard to do. Certainly, we would like to do it, but the next step, and this is the step we are committed to making happen, is a seven-day service from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Legislation will be required in this area to implement the EU directive and turn it into Irish law, and the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, are working on that. I do not have a timeline on it.

The ESB recorded a massive profit, of €847 million, as the Deputy said, so we will be taking a large part of that from it, both in terms of the tax on its profits - let us not forget that - and also through the special dividend we are taking this year. We will ring-fence that money to help families and businesses with the high cost of energy, and people have my commitment on that. I do not believe we should reduce the profits of the ESB to zero, for the specific reason that it is profits that build its balance shee…

A number of people and different groups in the health service are currently balloting with regard to safe staffing levels. We acknowledge there are many parts of the health service in which staffing is too low. We are happy to engage with unions and representatives on how we can resolve that but we need to put it into a wider context, which is the fact that we are hiring more healthcare staff than ever before, with 6,000 additional doctors, nurses, midwives and dentists hired in the past two or three years. We are …

I understand the concerns parents and staff have about these school projects. There are one or two such projects in every Deputy's constituency, including my own. It is a matter about which we are all very concerned. As a result of the rising cost of construction and the fact that the Department of Education is doing such a good job on building new schools and extending existing schools, it is running short of money. It will be provided with additional funding shortly to allow those school projects to resume. The M…

I will ask the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, who has responsibility for insurance, to speak to the Deputy on this issue. We have seen an improvement in the past year or so in terms of availability, with people getting quotes for public liability insurance. The costs have not come down but there is greater availability.

Sometimes there can be difficulties with particular events.

We are committed to having a referendum on the public ownership of water.

We do not have the wording or the date for it yet, so I cannot commit to November. It is important that the wording of any constitutional change is got right.

We know why that is. It is because it is open to interpretation by the courts. The power is taken from here to the courts to decide what is possible and what is not. I must say that there are no proposals of which I am aware, from any party in this House, to privatise Irish Water. I understand people want the referendum to give them a reassurance that this will not happen, but we must note that there is no proposal from any party in the House to privatise Irish Water. That is an important point in this context.

I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I might ask the Minister for Justice, Deputy Harris, to speak to him about it directly today. We all believe that shoplifting, larceny and such crimes should be taken seriously. It is not just a case of something being taken from a shop. It jeopardises businesses and, potentially, the employment of the people working in those businesses. In general, retailers operate off small margins, so just one or two items being taken might be the same as eliminating the margins from 2…

As the Deputy knows, it is a new special school. It is in addition to the education infrastructure and services we have in Dublin West that we have the special school. I have been to visit with the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, and I hope to visit again. I acknowledge that the building the school is in is not working out. We are examining whether the former institute of horology in Blanchardstown village could work as an alternative. I cannot make any solid commitment around that at this stage. We are examinin…

The Deputy has raised the matter of alienation on a number of occasions both in the House and with me personally. It is fair to say there are different views on that matter. Ultimately, we cannot interfere in decisions made by the family courts. Perhaps the best thing I can suggest is for Deputy Durkan to engage with the Minister for Justice or perhaps even the Attorney General to explore the issue further. I am not entirely sure how it is best resolved.

There probably are lessons to be learned. The Deputy may be aware of a recently published report that was commissioned by the Department of Health on a reimbursement system and how it might be improved. Fundamentally, though, there is a real difficulty when a single company develops a new product and new medicine, and it is the only product. That company develops and manufactures it and very often holds the cards. Some people take the view, and the Deputy may take this view, that the Government should just copy it …

In fairness, the Deputy is not saying that. That is the underlying problem; if a single company develops a medicine that it manufactures and controls, it tends to hold a lot of the cards when it comes to negotiating the price.

I am a little bit disappointed in the Deputy's question. People in the south east fought for a very long time to secure a university for the region. We now have the South East Technological University. It is an addition to the region and certainly when I went to visit and spoke to businesses and ordinary people in the region about it, they accepted that it is a plus and a good thing. I am disappointed.

Maybe the Deputy does not realise he is doing this, but he is talking down the only university in his region.