It came from the Ceann Comhairle.

I will be brief. I am supporting this amendment. The Minister knows my views on this issue as I made them clear on an earlier Stage. There are good landlords and good tenants, and that is the majority of people. Then there are some rogue landlords and some tenants with whom people have major issues. They have used the Covid-19 situation to help themselves as well. I believe, however, that extra time is needed for these protections and the relief they have provided during the Covid-19 crisis has helped. Those protec…

I wish the Minister well in her new post. I believe this is the first time I have addressed her in this role. I know she has a hard job to sort out. I have previously raised many issues about what is going on in the Prison Officers Association, which is totally unsavoury and needs to be sorted out. There is the issue of justice for the families of victims of the Omagh bomb. They were abandoned and never got the justice they were promised by her predecessors and the previous Taoiseach. There is the Fr. Niall Molloy …

The Minister ran out of time earlier, whether deliberately or not, before addressing the most important parts of the Bill. She admitted that she was not going to listen to anyone here and was going to force through all sections of the Bill. I support this amendment because the insertion of a sunset clause is vital especially when it is dubious how the sections that deal with hearsay evidence appeared in this Bill. The Minister is saying that these suggestions came from the Judiciary and officials in the Department …

We are not being respected by Government.

It is shocking.

It is.

I believe this is a very reasonable proposal. It does not deny anyone speaking rights, but it is just about the sequence and where it comes in and where it goes out. Deputy Griffin accused some people here of spreading lies. I ask you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, to make him withdraw the word "lie". We have the heavy boot boys back again in Fine Gael. We had them between 1973 and 1977. Are they back again? Is Deputy Griffin from Kerry the new heavy gang? Is he the new bully who is going to bully us? They might silence…

This proposal is beneath the Tánaiste.

I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I remind the Tánaiste that he is depending on a small party, which was in opposition recently, to stay in government. He has 11 of that party now - one gone and more to go. That is the way it is now, sadly. We take no lecturing from the Tánaiste about that. There was a convention that worked well in the previous Dáil. We have had 32 meetings of the Business Committee in this Dáil so far and they have all been civil and they have worked very well. We have always worked things out w…

The self-employed musicians and people at home will not like the cheerleaders tonight. If they had guitars, they could play them. They should be ashamed of themselves. They are like "The Lonesome Boatman" on the fiddle. That is what they are. I too believe that after what happened here tonight, when we gave the vulture funds more powers, abandoned the self-employed, the pensioners, people with disabilities and everything else, the Dáil should not rise. I know we agreed this in the Business Committee but we should n…

The Minister can just give a brief reply, as the time has lapsed.

Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. Is é an chéad ghrúpa eile ná Solidarity-People Before Profit. An bhfuil an Teachta Barry nó an Teachta Paul Murphy anseo? I move to the Regional Group. Are Deputies Fitzpatrick and Berry sharing?

Okay. I thank the Deputy.

The Minister may give a brief response and then we will move on to Deputy Danny Healy-Rae.

Tá an t-am críochnaithe. I call Deputy Pringle, and Deputy Barry will be after him.

Did Deputy Pringle have another question?

The Minister can make some final remarks if she wishes. I thank everybody for their forbearance. It is very late.

Seanad Éireann has passed the Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020 without amendment.

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputies Paul Murphy, Mick Barry, Thomas Pringle and Bríd Smith - the issue of asylum seeker conditions and the hunger strike by residents of the Skellig Star direct provision centre in Cahersiveen; (2) Deputy Neale Richmond - to ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the status of the hate crime legislation as committed to in the prog…