I thank the Deputy. I am not sure if that is a further leader's question or a question on promised legislation. I will be guided by the Leas-Cheann Comhairle as to the length of the response because that seemed to be a number of different questions.

Okay. We are going to have a debate on this today, as I understand it, and a vote on it tomorrow. We have instructed local authorities to provide additional emergency accommodation, if it is needed, and we have been very clear with them that the tenant in situ scheme should be used. The resources are there to purchase 1,500 homes so if somebody is a social housing tenant, the house can be bought by the council or an approved housing body and the tenant can move from being a HAP or RAS tenant to being a proper socia…

I am happy to confirm and give the reassurance that funding will be provided for those 58 schools to continue construction this year. The Department of Education is running over budget at the moment for lots of good reasons, mostly beyond its control, including higher construction costs. The Ministers for Education, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform have been working together as recently as yesterday to try to bottom out what additional funding would be required. Additional fundi…

I have answered that question on several occasions now and have done so very clearly. I do not know about individual responses from individual politicians, strategies, public relations or that type of thing but I do know the facts regarding the Standing Orders of this House and the Constitution, and Dáil motions are not binding. That is a simple fact.

I have been very clear. Excuse me now, but if I was not clear, I do apologise. On every occasion that I have been asked this question I have been clear in answering it. It was a temporary winter eviction ban, it will end on a phased basis from 31 March, and Dáil motions are not binding.

I want to acknowledge that the Deputy and her party have a different view on this, but it is a different view from all the Government parties, Sinn Féin and the Labour Party, who all acknowledge that the eviction ban has to end at a certain point. I appreciate that People Before Profit-Solidarity has a different view even from the rest of the left on this. It is true there are different laws in different European countries. There is a wide variation of different laws in different European countries but where perman…

-----and it would be unfair, I think.

I was in Wexford General Hospital and University Hospital Waterford in the past two weeks since the fire and I had a chance to speak to the management, doctors and other healthcare staff there about the situation. It is putting huge pressure on University Hospital Waterford, St. Luke's General Hospital Kilkenny and other hospitals. Part of what is happening is that a minor injuries unit has been reopened in the hospital. There is a new 22-bed ward opening in Kilcreene Regional Orthopaedic Hospital Kilkenny to help …

I want to acknowledge the Deputy's contribution. I have also heard from my constituency office about delays in processing SEAI applications. I will let the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, know that this was raised here and ask him to come back to the Deputy with a full reply.

I am very sorry to hear about that lady's circumstances but without knowing all the facts, I cannot comment on the matter. I set out in response to Deputy McDonald earlier the four things Sinn Féin could do to help us. Please do them.

If the Deputy passes on Nicole's details to my office, with her permission to look into her case, I can certainly engage with the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, about it and see if it can be resolved. I know from my own constituency service that it is often the case at this point in the year that children do not have a school place but long before September it is possible to find an appropriate one. That is not always the case but it is in the vast majority of cases. If the Deputy passes on the details and perm…

Between my office and the office of the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, we will certainly look into that. The Deputy may have given the Minister of State the details already. If she has not, if she passes them on to both of us, we will try to make contact with the company.

I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 11, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland was reconstituted as one of ten Cabinet committees established in January 2023. It operates in accordance with established guidelines for Cabinet committees and, where appropriate, substantive issues are referred to the Government for discussion and approval. The committee is intended to oversee implementation of relevant programme for Government commitments in the area of Brexit and Northern Ireland …

I will take the questions in reverse. Deputy Gannon asked about the Good Friday Agreement and how we would assess it now. I think it has been a great success despite its failures or limitations. It has given us three things, one of which is peace, and almost everyone in Northern Ireland accepts that political objectives can be pursued only by peaceful means. There is agreement on consent that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom but we can have unification if a majority both North and South want that. The…

Sorry. I heard Deputy Ó Murchú's question. I am afraid I do not have an answer to it. I am not familiar with those changes, but if he wants to come back to me directly on it, I will look into it.

I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 to 18, inclusive, together. The climate action delivery board is jointly chaired by the Secretaries General of the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Membership of the delivery board consists of Secretaries General from those Government Departments which have the main responsibilities for climate action delivery. Meetings are also attended by the chiefs of staff of the three Government parties. A full list of the members…

I thank Deputy Tóibín. I think he was referring to the constituency of Dublin Rathdown rather than the council area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. As I often say to Deputies from all parts of Ireland, there is a lot more to Dublin than Dublin 2, 4 and 6. I often hear comments from rural Deputies about Ireland beyond the M50. I am somebody from Dublin who has lived beyond the M50 for almost my entire life. Those of us from Dublin need to get around the country a lot and get to know rural Ireland and every county in it. …

They are great but there is more to Dublin than Dublin 2, 4, 6 and 1. The publication of the IPCC report yesterday confirms that with global warming already having reached 1.1°C above pre-industrial levels, climate change is causing widespread and increasingly irreversible losses and damages. We have a rapidly closing window of opportunity to maintain a liveable future for humanity. The report brings together the latest scientific evidence on climate change solutions to inform policymaking at national and internati…

I propose to take Questions Nos. 19 to 25, inclusive, together. The Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice is a programme for Government commitment to measure how we are doing overall as a country and to improve our understanding of quality of life in Ireland. It does this by bringing economic, societal and environmental outcomes together under one framework. It places a particular focus on equality and sustaining well-being into the future. The framework provides a multidimensional picture of qualit…

I thank the Deputies for their questions. On the wider piece about the use of well-being indicators, which I am very much in favour of, in fairness to this Government and all previous Governments, including ones I did not support, they have always taken into account more than economic growth, GDP and public finances. The nature of politics is that you take into account many different indicators in making your decisions, whether it is unemployment, inflation and the cost of living, homeownership, which is the ultima…