I do not. I never looked for it either. That is the fact of it. Doing my duty yesterday evening as a Whip, I checked with the Government Chief Whip's office who was on the list of speakers and I was told to forget about it because there was-----

I am not blaming the Ceann Comhairle. The office told me-----

It has the list of names.

The list of names was available and we were not going to get an ear in. I came up yesterday evening. I did not protest when I came up and the opportunity was gone. I did run up and I did not say a word.

Ar an gcéad dul síos, gabhaim buíochas le cúpla duine, Brian Ó Domhnaill, our research and policy advisor, Mariead and Councillor Máirín McGrath in my office, for putting together the motion. I thank the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, for staying as long as he could. He had another engagement and apologised before he left. My thanks to the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth as well, but I have to contradict him. He said that local councils were the authors of county development pla…

We are taking this motion much earlier than we thought we would be and I understand that I am over time but this motion is sincere, as are we, and we are very definite. I pity the councils trying to put together these plans with the planning regulator dictating with a 58 page letter to the Ceann Comhairle’s own county council, together with the one he wrote to Wexford County Council, which is outrageous.

We need to get back to reality here and we are pressing this motion and are not accepting the Government amendment. Gabhaim buíochas.

It is not agreed to. Vótáil.

I too compliment Deputy Cullinane and Sinn Féin on putting forward this motion. We could not talk about a more sensitive, deserving and needy group of the population. They give all they can to those they care for, who are normally elderly but can also be vulnerable young people. I salute the carers and Councillor Richie Molloy, an independent councillor in Clonmel, and his team who manage the carers in County Tipperary. I also thank Ms Vivienne Kenneally in my office who deals with it as best she can, and the offic…

He could bring a flask.

Sell-out.

It was meant to be-----

I too want to look for change to have time here to discuss the very serious situation of An Garda Síochána not being given the vaccine. It was number ten on the list and now it has gone way down below and we do not know where it is on the pecking list. An Garda Síochána is our front line. I also want time to be made available for the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to come in to correct the record of the House, as Deputy McNamara has asked for. The Minister told us there would never be penal provisions with rega…

Hundreds of young and not so young farmers in the south east have invested hugely in agriculture by buying land, increasing the cow herd and investing in magnificent buildings for animal welfare. Glanbia, with a Dutch company, Royal A-ware, is investing in a factory to make Cheddar cheese. It has gone through the county council and An Bord Pleanála planning processes but now An Taisce is on its back like a monkey. It is in the High Court for judicial review and is threatening to go to the European court. It will be…

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

The European project has failed Ireland and it is failing Ireland, from the fiasco at the summit last year, where we provided a substantial net contribution and were the second-lowest beneficiaries in the whole EU. There are affected individuals in Clonmel and in Tipperary, at South East Car Sales, McCarthy Motors and Eurocar Logistics, and a Deputy from Longford spoke about the problems that car importers are having. There is a stupid regulation whereby cars made in a European country, were imported into England w…

Tá an t-am caite.

There are now 20 minutes for questions to the Minister of State. I will allow each group roughly two and a half minutes, so please-----

The order here is for 20 minutes for questions and answers. I do not mind. It depends on how the Members feel.