First of all, I would like to point out that the European Union is the single greatest donor to Palestine. It is an important point, although it never gets said.

In real terms, the most effective contributor now to Gaza is the European Union.

I am not happy with the fact that we cannot get unanimity across the 27 EU member states.

To abolish or put into abeyance the EU-Israel association agreement would require unanimity among the 27, and the Deputy knows that. About ten members-----

We have asked for a review. We asked over a year ago for a review. There may be opportunities to suspend elements of that agreement that would not require unanimity. That is being pursued by Ireland and other like-minded states in respect of this. The Deputy knows that countries like Germany, Hungary, Czechia and others have a long-standing historic position of support for Israel. I regret that, I disagree with it, but the European Union is an association of 27 member states.

First of all, I anticipate that the advices will be available to the Government as the Bill is going through. There is a pre-legislative process and that will be the first instance of this. The Deputy-----

I am saying it will be available to the Government in terms of whether we can include it or not. The Government will make its position, based on that advice, clear to the committee before it concludes. The Bill is vastly improved from what it was. I pay tribute to Senator Black for her initiative on this issue and her constructive engagement with the Government. Deputy Murphy is good at pontificating a lot but he has never condemned Hamas in this House for what it did on 7 October.

Sorry, Deputy McDonald, why is what I said pathetic?

The Deputy has not spoken to me about this case before now. Perhaps he can send the details to me. I am not clear whether the local authority has been approached in respect of this case and whether Jennifer was on the social housing list. It should be very possible to accommodate an 88-year-old in a council house. I do not know the background but it seems to me there is an obvious solution.

I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which he has raised with me previously. I certainly am open to doing as he proposed. The Government would be very positively disposed to working on such a proposal.

I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. I fully subscribe to his analysis of the importance of this programme. I will liaise with the Minister for Health, who is sitting beside me, and other Ministers to see whether we can free up some resources to commence the development of a team in the midlands.

First, I did not strip Monaghan hospital of anything. It was the North Eastern Health Board that was in place at the time.

Sinn Féin had members on it. I cannot believe in one sense that the Deputy is back again at this-----

The thing that should unite us all is the safety of patients and the people who go through our hospitals.

Anybody who knows anything about emergency care knows the first thing to get right is the first response. We have dramatically transformed the quality of first responses in this country over the past 20-odd years. That is the first point.

Second, the quality of healthcare is key to any patient.

What is very important is that the right care is made available at the right time for the patient to guarantee the best outcome.

The Deputy wants to go back to worst outcomes and an era when we had very deficient medicine.

I would need the full background details. The ratio could be high in some classes but not in the entirety of the school in terms of how it organises its numbers. The Deputy indicated the numbers are declining in both schools. A question arises as to whether that is a permanent feature of the area. There are different approaches one can make to the Department in respect of whether it is possible to do something. If the numbers are going to increase again into the future, it might be possible to get a temporary stay …

I will engage with the Minister for housing on the specifics. Is this a series of houses?