She is spreading the blame.

I thank everybody who was involved in dealing with the front-line services and the volunteers, the GAA clubs, the businesses, the Garda Síochána and everybody else who worked very hard and put their shoulder to the wheel. I also thank the tens of thousands of people who signed up to Be on Call for Ireland, but they were not respected. Only a handful of them were called up. Those people wanted to give their services to the country. As this is our second last day in the convention centre, I thank the staff here, incl…

It is very wrong of media outlets to put that into the story to try to damage my credibility. Above all-----

I appreciate that but the record should be corrected by the Taoiseach in this House as well, when he used that awful term.

It is not in my body to speak that word and I would not and did not. I will be writing to you, a Cheann Comhairle, to ask the Taoiseach to withdraw that also.

I thank everybody who contributed. Thank you for your time, a Cheann Comhairle.

The Irish Farmers Association, Farm Contractors Ireland and many farming families are outside protesting today because they are not allowed to cut timber. The price of timber for contractors and people building houses has gone through the roof. Will the Taoiseach please ensure that the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, takes her hands off the steering wheel and allows the farmers who committed to put in forestry - and the contractors who have millions of euro worth of machinery to do business - to provide the saw…

She is responsible.

You cannot see the wood for the trees.

They are not coming out.

This legislation has had no pre-legislative scrutiny, proper committee debate or anything else. We had two minutes each to speak. Thankfully, we now have four minutes each to discuss such a huge piece of legislation which will have overwhelming effects. It completely tramples on the Constitution. The Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, when he was in opposition railed against guillotines and everything else. Does he ever look in the mirror and ask how he got to make such a turnaround and turn himself inside out? Our…

It is becoming normal.

That is patronising. It has been the policy in here for 18 months.

No. Vótáil.

I thank the Ceann Comhairle for bearing with me. Bhí mé ag dul chuig an leithreas nuair a ghlaoigh sé orm. I know the Minister of State has done a lot of work on this legislation. Many people have worked on these matters over the past decade, especially Ms Maura Canning. I cannot say enough of her. She has done Trojan work on behalf of farm families in the Irish Farmers' Association. There are considerable difficulties with this legislation, which was promised during every session for the past two years. We kept be…

I too support amendment No. 1. I again appeal to the Minister, but I know it will fall on deaf ears. Guillotining a Bill of this nature is disgraceful. How can the Minister do that, given his pronouncements while in opposition and at leaders' meetings that Deputies Boyd Barrett and Naughten and others also attended and in light of his questioning of the advice, what was happening and the line from Dr. Holohan? To do such a U-turn beggars belief. This legislation is unworkable. If it were banished at October, we wou…

Excuse me. I am talking through the Chair. I am wondering what is going on. The people are sick and weary of it. This is not the first time. I could speak about the Aughinish Alumina plant and the Geoghegan family in Limerick. They had issues with Dr. Holohan and the now Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin. There was no public inquiry into what happened. What about the cervical smear tests and many other issues? Mind games are being played now. A tweet was just sent to me with Dr. Holohan's statement this evening. Is …

-----and there has been significant cover-up in the past 30 years. It is cover-up after cover-up. Now, we get here and this is the biggest cover-up of all. I am asking the Minister - I know he will not do it, but I hope someday, someone will - to establish an inquiry that will get answers and honesty and restore the integrity and respect people had for our public services.

It is not tomorrow yet.

We can agree a time extension if the Minister wants it.