They did not vote for this.

I join with the Tánaiste in wishing the families of the victims of the Stardust tragedy all the best today. I happened to be in Dublin that night as well. They have been a long time waiting for justice. I am questioning the issuing of planning exemptions for telecommunication structures such as masts as per the statutory instrument, class 31, of the Planning and Development Act regulations of 2019. There is an exemption that allows for companies to erect telecommunications masts of 12 m or less in an area with no n…

Thankfully. They have stopped.

Why has the Minister of State at the Department of Education left? I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan. It is disappointing that neither the Minister or a Minister of State for education is here. It is such a serious area. There are huge concerns about special units in national schools in County Tipperary. In December 2023, Burncourt National School received a letter from the NCSE regarding a second autism class from September 2024. It invited enrolments and was ready to offer place…

What is happening with the NCSE and the Department is typical. Is there any joined-up thinking? St. Michael's Junior Boys School has been offering to open a class for the past two years but the NCSE has not approved it so far. It is imperative this be provided in a town the size of Tipperary, where five national schools are available and where a school has offered to accommodate them. I visited that school over the Easter holidays and met the principal. The Minister of State indicated in his reply that there is ple…

I compliment the movers of this motion, Solidarity-People Before Profit. Last year, the Minister tried to introduce a British system, which has caused uproar, and we know why. The Green Paper tried to tackle related issues, including the cost of disability and the low employment rate among people with disabilities, with a single policy change and it has not worked. Everyone will know what I am talking about but I will use one person to prove my case. People might have read about the wonderful achievements of Mr. Sh…

The Government is trying to stifle them.

It should be repackaged.

Last February, public representatives in Clonmel, including the mayor and Councillor Niall Dennehy, were told that 62 modular homes for asylum seekers were being considered for construction on Heywood Road. We did not hear a dickybird since then. I have been trying through parliamentary questions and freedom of information, FOI, requests to get information but I could not get it. Last Friday, I got responses back to an FOI request and a parliamentary question. At 6.30 p.m. on Friday evening, we got an email from th…

It should worry you.

There are two motions to be put before the House. Before calling on the Minister of State to open the debate, I remind Members that two motions are to be decided. An céad motion is on a proposal on the signing of an agreement with Canada on the transfer of passenger name data agus an dara motion is on a proposal on the conclusion of an agreement with Canada on the transfer of passenger name data. The motions will be moved and debated together and will be decided on together by a single question.

I will stop you now because I have been told that this subject is not relevant to the legislation.

You may talk to the Minister of State separately about this. He is nodding in agreement.

Good. That is the spirit. In a new coalition maybe.

Yes. Okay.

As the debate has concluded, I will now put the question: "That the motions relating to proposals for Council decisions on the signing and the conclusion of an agreement between Canada and the European Union on the transfer and processing of passenger name data, are hereby agreed to.”

We do not have much time on this. The RSA is not fit for purpose, nor is TII. They are too rigid and there is too much bureaucracy. We are trying to have speed limits reduced at dangerous junctions. We are supposed to have got rid of the NRA but I do not believe we have. We decommissioned the IRA and we are stuck with the NRA. It is impossible to talk to and will not listen to politicians or anybody. I come from Tipperary where we had a horrific year last year. It was so sad that we lost so many young lives. It is …

Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle. I am not sure if my other colleagues will be joining us. I am glad to be able to speak today on this as well. While it is of vital importance and very noble that we have a pension for employees who are not in the public sector, this is coming on top of so many other pieces of regulation and bureaucracy, especially for small businesses. I have to declare an interest as I speak as one of them myself. My business has up to 25 employees and we have offered pensions to them ove…

Gabh mo leithscéal. I am lucky-----

No, there are only four. Gabh mo leithscéal.