I am conscious that quite a number of Deputies raised CAMHS and also CDNTs. I do not have information broken down to local or county level. CAMHS receives dedicated funding of approximately €146 million annually, and €110 million of that has been provided to community-based mental health organisations and NGOs this year. A further €10 million was announced in January for mental health, including the clinical programmes and youth mental health. In collaboration with local CAMHS services, a waiting list initiative sp…

Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta as a cuid ceisteanna. Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil fadhb mhór againn leis na seirbhísí sin agus tá brón orm faoi. I know from my own experience, having worked in medicine as a doctor in what seems a long time ago now, that the problem of failures and inadequate services when it comes to spinal surgery, scoliosis and spina bifida surgery for children, goes back generations, sadly. It goes back many more lifetimes than these children have yet experienced. I guarantee that if it had ever …

I thank the Deputy. Is fadhb mhór í agus is tubaiste é i mo thuairim agus táimid ag lorg níos mó eolais agus ag iarraidh an fhadhb sin a réiteach. I have met the patient groups and I would be happy to meet them again. It is not my practice to organise meetings on the floor of the House, but I will be happy to meet them again as soon as there is a gap in my diary. There are different groups involved, however, and they do not all agree with each other. The Deputy knows how complicated it can be to deal with an issue …

No, it is not the point. The Deputy had used misinformation about the waiting lists here in the House.

She has also claimed that the Minister said that he did not know where the money was spent. That is not what he said. It was spent on 200 staff, more beds, a new theatre-----

-----and a new MRI scanner. If the Deputy and her party honestly want to be involved in helping us to come up with a solution, which should not be political football, they need a different approach.

I thank the Deputy. Ireland is a very good country in which to raise a child. Out of 200 countries in the world, we are in the top ten or 20 in almost everything. We have very good maternal and neonatal health services. We have among the lowest infant mortality rates in the world. We have a very good education system with among the best education outcomes in the world. We have introduced early years education and by September the cost of childcare will be half what it was when this Government came to office. We hav…

I thank the Deputy. I will clarify one point and I appreciate I was not clear. When I say it will take more than one Government to solve some of these problems, I do not mean two Governments over ten years; I mean this Government has a year to run and this problem is not going to be solved within a year. The opening of the new children's hospital next year and everything around that creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity to dramatically improve paediatric healthcare in Ireland and I am determined that should be…

That is for a lot of different reasons and much of the time, unfortunately, it is in peripheral locations where consultants, especially Irish ones, are not willing to work and therefore we rely-----

-----on people to come from other parts of the world who are willing to work in places that sometimes Irish doctors are not. I wish to clarify again the recruitment restrictions that exist do not apply to filling consultant posts on a permanent basis.

I thank the Deputy. First of all, the State has a construction company and it is called the LDA. It was established in 2019. It got off to a slow start, but it is really getting going now. The Deputy will know Shanganagh in his constituency, where hundreds of social and affordable houses are being built. He likes to claim there is none in his constituency, but there are hundreds being built and they will be available quite soon for people to occupy. I certainly hope when people do live there that you will not have …

-----because the LDA is a body you voted against the establishment of.

I have been sent a very long list by Deputy Carroll MacNeill just now, and indeed previously by Deputy Devlin, of all the developments in your own constituency you have objected to-----

-----on ideological grounds because-----

-----they are built by a private provider and they were one-beds and two-beds. However, if we look at the facts, look at the homelessness and look at the housing shortage, the areas we need the most new housing in are one-beds and two-beds. We need family homes as well, but the biggest shortage is for one-beds and two-beds, and these are the kinds of things Deputy Boyd Barrett and people who share his ideology seem to regularly object to. We built over 30,000 new homes last year. That is up from 20,000 when I first…

There is something I admire about the Deputy. I do mean this; I am not trying to be smart. Deputy Boyd Barrett is very articulate, very passionate and performs really well in this House.

It is really obvious, however, when you get angry - not just pretending to be angry-----

-----but genuinely angry - and the way you spoke to Deputy Carroll MacNeill there was-----

No.

No, but-----