I spoke to the Secretary General of the Department about that legislation last week and it is imminent. It will be commenced within a matter of weeks.

I know the issue of Clonmel Garda station has been raised several times in this House. Senator Ahearn has raised it in the other House. I do not have an up-to-date briefing on it at the moment unfortunately but I will make sure that I get it and will pass it on to the Deputy.

Greece is doing something similar to France. Two or three weeks ago, people were saying that Ireland was an outlier in not opening up indoor hospitality to everyone. As the weeks go by, we look like less of an outlier, as some countries reimpose restrictions and others are going down the route that we are going down with a health pass, because it will be the only way to stay open.

The matter regarding schools is under consideration. We accept that schools will need better ventilation in September and October. The issue of carbon dioxide monitors is part of that. We have asked the expert group on rapid testing to advise us on applying antigen testing both to indoor hospitality and to schools when they reopen in September.

I agree with the comments the Deputy has made. A new round of sports capital funding will open for applications later in the year. I am not sure of exactly when. It will probably be in September or October. That will provide grants to sports clubs and sporting organisations to improve their facilities. When we are working out the criteria for that, we should take account of what the Deputy has said about facilities in urban areas where land is scarce, including facilities for women, girls, Travellers and other peop…

The Deputy's point is well made. I always say that in a pandemic, the easiest thing to do is to shut the country down or to fully reopen it and the hardest thing to do is everything in between because it always involves anomalies and inconsistencies. We will ask NPHET to review two things over the next two weeks. One is how we might safely provide for religious ceremonies over the summer, including christenings, confirmations and communions. We will also ask it to look again at the issue of indoor summer camps and …

I will have to seek confirmation of this but I understand the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, is correct in this regard. I will double-check that and let the Deputy know for sure. The best thing we can do for taxi drivers is to reopen our economy and society safely. That is part of what we decided to do yesterday, in opening up indoor hospitality and, potentially, other events and activities down the line. In that context, using a health pass is probably the best thing we can do for taxi drivers so they are busy again,…

We expect heads of Bill to be published in the next session. The Minister for Justice is working very hard on that. This Bill could be particularly beneficial to sporting and community organisations in rebalancing the duty of care and in expecting a bit more personal responsibility from people not to put themselves at risk or injure themselves.

I agree wholeheartedly with what the Deputy said on the issue of bullying, both traditional bullying and the new form of it that is online and can follow you everywhere. It is definitely an issue we will pay more attention to in the next session when the House returns in September.

I am afraid I do not have any information to hand on that matter. This is a major issue every year, particularly in constituency offices and for rural Deputies. I will let the Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley, know it was raised by the Deputy today and will ask her to talk to him directly.

I will certainly do that. I will be in touch with the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, next week about some other matters. I will raise this issue with him and let him know what the Deputy said in the Chamber.

We will look into that matter. I am sorry to hear about Mr. Sugrue's experiences. The mother and baby report has been much maligned but one of the things that really struck me as I read it was how much people who were boarded out during that time suffered, not just those who were boarded out as an exit path from mother and baby institutions but those boarded out for other reasons. Boys were often used as farm labour and girls as domestic servants. They were not cared for or looked after and often did not get their …

I am not sure if there is specific public health advice on the matter of English-language schools. I will certainly look into that and will come back to the Deputy with more information when I have it.

I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021, which enables us to reopen indoor hospitality, pubs, cafés, restaurants and other licensed venues safely, sustainably and in line with public health advice. It is imperfect but it is better than any of the alternatives currently on offer to us. One alternative is opening to all people, against public health advice, and making the Delta variant wave much worse and more dangerous than it will be. A second alternative is to wait until we a…

It is important, once again, to be aware of the facts. We know from the most recent statistics produced that approximately 10% of new homes in Ireland were bought by investment funds. Some 20% were bought by the State, through local authorities and affordable housing bodies. I have said previously we also need to take into account that first-time buyers, and people who want to upgrade or downsize, are sometimes not just competing with investment funds but with the State. In fact, they are more likely to be competin…

I apologise to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle that she had to endure that display, ring her bell and be shouted over and shouted down by Deputy Doherty again. Deputy Doherty said that I need to get real. He needs to calm down. The constant display every Thursday of aggression, nastiness, fury and anger is all preplanned and done for his social media video he will put out in a few minutes or an hour's time. Everyone knows that. Let us have a rational grown up conversation about housing policy and about what are the right…

Let us not have this display of histrionics and anxiety every Thursday.

It is just done for social media; you do not really care.

The modelling presented by NPHET to the Cabinet on Tuesday did not take account of the changes that NIAC has now permitted in relation to vaccines, nor could it have. We still do not know for sure what the changes that NIAC is now permitting will do in terms of the vaccination programme. We knew that the vaccination programme would slow down in July because we could not use the AstraZeneca and Janssen vaccines on young people. We now know that we can do that, but we do not yet know how much it will allow us to spee…

The pandemic is unfair, as are viruses and, sometimes, science. Older people have borne the brunt of the pandemic by quite a distance with regard to illness, hospitalisation and deaths. Younger people have borne the brunt economically with regard to the impact on their incomes and on their freedoms. At the start of this pandemic, we told older people that they were the most vulnerable and asked them to please cocoon, to stay inside and not to go out. They did that. It was unfair but it was the right thing to do. We…