On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I too oppose this proposal, as I did at the meeting of the Business Committee last Thursday week. This is very substantial legislation that will have significant ramifications from all angles. Months were spent on the Bill on Committee Stage, where there were hours and hours of debate. A great many amendments, including amendments from the Minister, are now to be condensed into a very short debate. It is crazy to think that such mammoth legislation, which has been in gestat…

Not agreed.

I know there is a problem in Dublin with the canals and the tents and everything else. The people of Ireland and the people of Tipperary are very welcoming to Ukrainian refugees but now we have a situation whereby they are being moved out of places such as Rathcabbin and Borrisokane, which was a model for everyone to look at. There is Dundrum House Hotel, what happened in Roscrea and the Heywood Road site in Clonmel. There is ongoing activity there today. There is also Hearn's Hotel. There is no real cohesive plan …

They all have.

Hold your whisht.

Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Matthews agus an Teachta Ó Cathasaigh. I know how hard they and other committee members worked on Committee Stage of this Bill. I tried to assist a few different times, voting as a substitute and so on. They did a lot of hard work. It is very long legislation and, as the Minister will know, this stage in the Dáil is being quite rushed. Community gardens and community facilities are very important. I listened to the múinteoir, an Teachta Ó Cathasaigh, and what he said was very intere…

Tá an clog stoptha. Cad a tharla don chlog?

It is on strike. It got a shock when the election was up.

Stop the clocks. I succeed in a lot of things, but anyway.

Maybe the Minister is doing it. I will continue. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Bhí mé ag féachaint ar an gclog so gabhaim buíochas léi. I was speaking of the whole issue of traffic calming and cycle lanes. I have it in Tipperary now. It has become ridiculous. We had a lovely road going from Cashel to Cathair Dúin Iascaigh. My goodness, €1.5 million was spent on it. It is not about it being a carriageway so much as being for trucks or any agricultural vehicles. We live in a primarily agricultural country and th…

I am just saying the RSA should be involved in these issues as well. A holistic approach is needed, not big, crude plans. Concrete aprons and high kerbs are being put in. If people hit them, they are in fierce trouble. They are crude. There is talk about aesthetics. Masses of concrete laid out as a ready-mix with a machine is no more aesthetically sensible or pleasing than anything. Some safety areas are needed but these are too crude. There are too many of them and it is total overkill. As I said, people are not a…

I will finish. Mar fhocal scoir, I am thankful we are an agricultural country, unless the Deputies in the Green Party want to quench the farming and we will all be reading I do not know what.

I welcome the TFI bus routes. We have a new bus in Clonmel in the past six to eight months. It has been a huge success. I remember when we had not a bus and before Covid it was a private service. A lot of people worked very hard. I compliment Michael Moroney in the council and his team. It is a major success. There is one problem, and perhaps Deputy Ó Cathasaigh would like to know this also. The bus comes from Dungarvan to Clonmel and vice versa but they will not stop, and it was an awful job getting it to stop, in…

We were not here.

What? Only one day.

Is the Minister saying we are not?

I raised again last week the migration treaty not being scheduled for debate here today. We tried on the Business Committee to have it included. There is time on the schedule, so the Government is deliberately hiding and burying the migration pact until after the local and European elections because it is getting it on the chin everywhere. It is the same situation with the hate speech legislation. That is also buried until after the election. Of course, the Government will not even mention the WHO pandemic treaty, …

We have a situation now in Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir and Dundrum House Hotel, which was housing Ukrainians, with 60 international protection applicants going in there now as well. All over the country, in every town, village and hamlet, this is going on and the Government will not debate it in this House. We have had two debates thanks to our Private Members' time, one lot of statements and no other debate about it here in the past 15 months.

You are hiding from the debate.

The people will let you know.