I will take four minutes and Deputy Stanley will take two.

I thank the Minister for her response.

This is my time now. This is two days in a row where the Ceann Comhairle has-----

I would like the clock to be stopped because it is eating into my time.

I just want to point out that a minute was remaining on Deputy Sorca Clarke's time, which I encouraged the Minister to use. I welcome that. Then I stood up during the four minutes of my time. Unfortunately, the Ceann Comhairle countermanded the situation. Deputy Stanley, therefore, has two minutes when I am finished and I will not take up-----

-----up all of my time.

There is no need to object because the House agreed that Sinn Féin would have 15 minutes in this time. The Sinn Féin Whip then assigned that time, with a portion to Deputy Ó Snodaigh, a portion to Deputy Clarke, a portion to me and then a portion for Deputy Stanley.

Within Deputy Clarke's time.

I will not have this every week. Last week the Ceann Comhairle did the same. I watched and read back on what six Deputies had done and the Ceann Comhairle intervened with regard to my time and he has done the same this week. I asked that the clock reflects this and that it does not count. I will speak for less then two minutes now and allow the Minister time to respond and to allow Deputy Stanley to have two minutes if that is in order. As it happens, I will not need all of my time because I welcome the Minister's …

The question I am asked more often than any other is why it always appears that there is one set of rules for meat factories to abide by and a different set for everybody else. We have had discussions on beef importation and so on, but this week we learned that the Covid-19 test results of some workers were conveyed to their employers, meat factories in this instance, before the employees themselves. Has the Minister investigated in exactly how many cases this has happened? Does he agree that this behaviour is abso…

I had to do so because of the social distancing rules being applied here.

Not at all. I am interested in getting answers but, unfortunately, the Ministers cannot provide them. That is disappointing.

I hope to take less than two minutes in order to allow the Minister the same time to give a response. I understand that his officials are extremely busy dealing with some of the outworkings of the coronavirus crisis, but I want to use this opportunity, which is the first opportunity of the new Dáil to put questions to him, to raise the case of Shane O'Farrell, who was a young man from my home town. I did not know Shane very well but I have got-----

I have already spoken to the Minister and told him-----

-----that I would raise this issue.

The title of the debate is Questions to the Minister for Justice and Equality, and my question is one for the Minister. If we were to go through the Official Report of every debate we have had in these past weeks, we would see, on numerous occasions, instances where Deputies strayed-----

With due respect to the Ceann Comhairle, and I take his point on board, I spoke to Shane's mother today and on several other occasions, and one of the commitments I made was that at the very first opportunity I had to put questions to the Minister for Justice and Equality, regardless of who he or she might be, I would raise her son's case. As many Members know only too well, Shane was killed in 2011, at just 23 years of age, by a man who was a known criminal, who had breached several bail conditions at the time and…

Throughout the debates on the provision of childcare it is natural that there has been an amount of discussion considering the impact it is having on parents and those involved in essential services. However, there seems to have been one glaring omission in the consultations, namely, with childcare workers themselves. Last week, the Taoiseach announced that childcare services would open on 29 June for the children of essential workers. That was a major announcement but childcare workers have told me that there has …

I will conclude with two short questions, if I may. Will the Government underwrite and compensate the cost of insurance? Is the Minister satisfied that insurance companies will actually provide any cover? We all want our childcare services back up and running but we must ensure that it is done in a manner that is safe for childcare workers, children and their families.

It is deeply worrying that, as of this morning, workers in the sector did not have the answers to those questions. These workers, who will be pivotal to the success of the return to work in the economy, must be consulted and engaged with immediately.