Yes, but amendment No. 2 has not.

I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 23, after “shall” to insert “not”.

I too am supporting this amendment which we have moved already. The property tax came in with all kinds of promises, and everything else, and all kinds of issues. There have been ongoing debates about the amount of property tax people are paying in Dublin, the value of the property and the money going to rural roads. The fact of the matter is it is not going anywhere. The amount of waste going on in all Departments is just shocking. Fair play is fine play with me any day of the week. It is impossible for people to …

This is exactly to do with the amendment. The amendment from the Rural Independent Group concerns how we are being unfairly portrayed as I do not know what and how the Government is trying to extract more money from rural people. You cannot get blood out of a stone. They are struggling and being put to the pin of their collar just to live and pay their way. They want to be left alone. We cannot have €2 million paid for fancy buses that are driven by hydrogen and combinations of batteries and everything else. There …

We read and researched this legislation. Then we tabled an amendment to the Bill, which we are entitled to do. We are thankful for having been allowed to speak on it. I stand over our issues in this regard. We are again dancing to European tunes. It is now 0.4047 hectare because of a European desire. The Minister would of course know nothing about this, but the typical cottage and associated acre have strong connotations for people. The charge of this being "a noose around people’s necks" is commonly used about the…

The Minister has just got into it.

No, the Minister has just got into it. I would please just like to have one moment. The Minister has gone into this matter and he is regurgitating words attributed to me by journalists. Those are the selfsame journalists who have been paid handsomely during the Covid-19 debate, as well as newspapers and other publications, to do the Government’s spin and narrative for it. The journalists attributed those words to me. Anybody who looks at it, will know that I never used those words. I refer to the A-word and everyth…

I will stand up for the rural people of Ireland and they will make their decision regarding whether they will vote for me or not, and not the Dublin 4 set.

Yes.

I support the amendments. The situation is very unfair. I cannot understand how it costs €6,000 for the assessment. Families are being devastated and must try to house themselves when their homes are destroyed. It is obvious to anyone involved with a degree of knowledge of building that there are serious defects. The Government should set up a scheme whereby a group of assessors is set up and funded. People are being exploited if they are being charged €6,000. The work is technical enough, but it cannot be that tec…

We object to the Order of Business. We have had no proper discussion on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP. We are aware that peat producers and those who operate nurseries are outside the House today and are greatly concerned about issues coming down the track in that regard. On the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, Deputies still do not received copies of the legislation that the Cabinet is supposed to have produced. We are supposed to have a amendments in by 5 p.m. After a row at the Business Commi…

What about the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP?

I did not use those terms.

In your opinion they are ridiculous.

Who are you serving, I wonder?

I never mentioned the Holocaust. Words are being put into my mouth, a Cheann Comhairle. I did not use the word-----

I never uttered that word-----

-----not here or anywhere else.

Spare me the history lecture, please. You should apologise to me. I did not use that word.

Please, correct the record.