In the budget, as the Deputy knows, we have reduced the VAT-----

-----for the next five years to 9% on electricity and so on, for which we have provided a lot of resources. If we did not do that, it would have resulted in significantly higher bills. We have also substantially improved the situation. We have increased the free fuel allowance and expanded the number of people who will be able to get it. For example, those on working family payments will be able to get it as well. We have also significantly expanded the budget for retrofitting to enable people to have houses in the…

There is no policy framework leaving anyone behind, let us be frank about it. It is an operational issue for the Garda Commissioner. The policy framework is to dramatically increase recruitment into An Garda Síochána and training in Templemore, and that is happening. We had the biggest intake into Templemore recently with 220 recruits. Some 200 have also graduated. What is happening is that, progressively, bigger numbers are being allocated to particular areas to deal with those areas rather than allocating smaller…

Midnight?

First, I will say to Deputy McGettigan that I will talk to the Minister for justice, Deputy O'Callaghan, about Part 5 of the Act in respect of the code of practice for CCTV cameras. With regard to Deputy O'Gorman's question, that emerged at the last COP in a very rushed way. We have to apply our resources to where we are going to get yield. I cannot see any prospect of a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty happening in the immediate future. It was disappointing that consensus was not arrived at. The number of lead…

Yes, but in areas where we can get results. Our climate finance is one area where we have done quite well.

I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 13, inclusive, together. The Cabinet subcommittee on Northern Ireland was created on 18 February 2025 to oversee implementation of relevant programme for Government commitments and ongoing developments in relation to Northern Ireland, Irish-British relations, and the shared island initiative. As well as considering issues relevant to the Government's position as a co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, including our role in Good Friday Agreement institutions such as the Nor…

I thank all of the Deputies for raising a variety of issues. Deputy Brendan Smith was first up. In respect of the legacy framework, the measures announced in the joint framework were published in September and provide a pathway to truth and accountability. That is why I went to London to meet Keir Starmer. It was one of those trips. I take it that people accept that we have to go to London every now and again to meet the Prime Minister. It was to make sure we got the legacy Bill over the line because it is an impor…

The Deputy kind of said we could not wait.

I know. I am not trying to-----

I just think we need to really focus on reconciliation on a constant, constant basis.

It is hard work but it does bear great fruit in terms of the North and South and different traditions and political backgrounds within the North as well.

It is very important that we consistently do that. I do not think citizens' assemblies are in any shape or form an appropriate route for discussing the future of Ireland or the constitutional framework into the future.

I just do not believe it at all, because anyone who knows anything about the North - and I have been involved all my life politically; I have been involved in discussions about the devolution of justice, for example, and I was in the Government when the Good Friday Agreement was first signed - knows it means people-to-people engagement. It means political parties engaging. It means political traditions as well as independent politicians or people who have a view. Citizens' assemblies can be closed enough in some re…

What I am always amused by-----

Fianna Fáil as a party has committed to the North with great substance over the years - Charles Haughey, Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern in terms of the Good Friday Agreement. In this Government and the last, we did something that has never been done in the shared island initiative. Some €1 billion from 2020 to 2025 and beyond and another €1 billion in this programme for Government, which is bringing real substance. Instead of all the rhetoric and everything else, we are doing things. Part of that has also been a …

One second, please. I am just trying to make a point.

In terms of a blueprint, why is Sinn Féin afraid to bring forward a blueprint?

I know.

We are taking our responses in terms of the Good Friday Agreement.