Perhaps extending that to cover O'Connell Street might be something worth considering but I do not want to make any commitments on the hoof.

I thank the Deputy and I join with her in recalling the life and death of Savita Halappanavar. As she has said, much has changed in Ireland since then in terms of our laws in this area. The review is under way. I do not have it in front of me but I understand that it is led by an independent chair and has two main phases. I do not want to misinform the Deputy but I understand that it is supposed to be done by the end of this calendar year. I will double-check and come back to the Deputy if this is not the case.

I thank the Deputy. My only information on this so far is from news reports. I will have to make further inquiries into exactly what happened. I would point out that there are exemptions to the sanctions. They relate to medicines, food and food production. This would include fertilisers.

I will check it out.

I thank the Deputy. I have not seen the figures. We do have a problem with people entering the country illegally. This is the case and has been for quite some time. Sometimes people are not properly checked when they get on the plane. That happens in a different jurisdiction and there is very little we can do about it. Other times people use false documents. Sometimes, people destroy their documents. If people present at the airport to claim asylum and have no documents, it is very difficult for us to send them bac…

If it is a pledge of accommodation on a non-commercial basis, it is the Red Cross. If it is on a commercial basis it is the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth or the local authority. I have had the same experience as the Deputy of people who have pledged accommodation in their own homes or perhaps in a property they own on a non-commercial basis and of people who are offering properties on a commercial basis. They tell me how frustrated they are that they are not getting the level o…

I thank the Deputy. I saw the housing numbers today also. They are very encouraging. They are better than we had expected with 7,544 new dwellings completed in the three summer months of July, August and September. This is an increase of 62.5% on last year. The number of apartments has more than doubled. Over the first three quarters of this year, more than 20,000 new homes were built. We can confidently say we will reach our target of 25,000 new homes being built this year in Ireland. The Deputy is right. Apartmen…

To be honest, I am not sure exactly how pricing works for district heating in Ireland. I know it is commonly used in other European countries but it is not that common in Ireland. As the Deputy has said, tens of thousands of people have district heating systems. I will meet the Minister with responsibility for energy this afternoon. I will make sure he knows Deputy Boyd Barrett has raised it in the Dáil and I will ask him to come back to him with a proper answer.

The Government is determined to dramatically increase the amount of offshore wind generated in Ireland between now and 2030, and beyond. We can use the ports in Belfast and in England but that is not ideal. Therefore, major investment, well in excess of €100 million, is now going into Rosslare to enable it to service the wind farms we are going to build off the east and south-east coasts.

It is a very important issue and one in which I am taking an interest. All of us find it hard to explain to patients or constituents why a medicine is available on the NHS or in Germany or France but is not yet available in Ireland. Cancer survival rates have improved a lot in Ireland in recent decades. Rates are ahead of those in the UK but are still behind the EU average. The impact of what we did five or ten years ago is being seen in the statistics now. The impact of what is being done now will not be seen in t…

I have not seen the review and I do not know if it is even complete at this stage, but I will make inquiries with the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and ask him to get back to the Deputy directly.

The Deputy will see a lot happening in the next couple of years, particularly with the developments in Rosslare, the establishment of the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority, MARA, and the auctions for offshore wind. I do not have the answers to the Deputy’s precise and very reasonable questions, but there is a meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee on the environment and climate this afternoon. Offshore wind is on the agenda, so perhaps I will be able to come back to the Deputy after this meeting or, if not, I will a…

This issue is currently under consideration in the context of the all-island rail review. The case for extending the western rail corridor is stronger than it was in the past given that public finances are in a much better state and we are able to increase capital spending, the need to meet our climate plans, the high cost of fuel and the desire to get more freight off the roads and onto the rail lines. I know consideration is being given to a commuter to Tuam service and the possibility of freight from Athenry to …

I have read about it in the news but I am not familiar with the detail of the rosters.

I cannot say whether I am in favour of it. It is a matter for the Garda Commissioner, of course, and he will negotiate with the representative bodies on that. The most important thing is that gardaí are rostered for when we need them. They are there to serve the public. They must be rostered for when we need them most. That is my position but I also acknowledge that we must make sure it provides an attractive career. The same thing often applies in health care. People say that doctors and nurses should work 24-7, e…

We have seen a significant increase in overcrowding in recent weeks, not just in Cork but around the country, which is extremely worrying. There are lots of reasons for this. As the Deputy knows, given that the pandemic restrictions are now gone - although Covid is not gone - there is pent-up demand stemming from the pandemic period. We also have an increasingly aging population. All those factors are giving rise to what could be a very busy winter in our emergency departments. Many of the actions mentioned by the …

I struggle to answer the Deputy's question. I am obviously conscious of the separation of powers, which I am sure the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will remind me of. It is my understanding that the rule of law applies in our courts. That is the point of our courts. Perhaps there is a more detailed question behind the Deputy's question, which we can perhaps talk about with the Minister of Justice, rather than here.

The rise in the cost of living is affecting everyone and it is affecting students too. We understand that. We get that. Students want their voices heard and, by protesting today, they are making sure that their voices are heard. They will be heard in this House and by this Government. I will give the Deputy a few examples of what we have announced only in the past few weeks, such as a reduction in college fees by €1,000 this year and by €500 on a permanent basis from next year and we intend to build on that in the …

I am not sure that is entirely true. If we rewound to 20 years ago, when neither my party nor that of the Deputy was in government, and projected ahead, I doubt we would have projected the population of the country would be 5.2 million, as it is now. I doubt we would have projected we would have extended the opportunity of higher and further education to so many as we do now. I am thankful to say more people are accessing higher and further education than was ever the case before. They are doing so from a wider and…

Unfortunately, we are seeing a rise in people who are homeless and need to access emergency accommodation. I am thankful that we are able to provide emergency accommodation for almost everyone who needs it. We do not see, or at least we very rarely see, families having to sleep on the streets or sleep in cars, as is often the case in other countries. Nobody wants us to end up in that situation. With a few exceptions, which are often very difficult and complex cases, we are able to provide emergency accommodation to…