I thank Deputy Lowry for raising this question. He has been fair in saying that many Irish farmers have moved to embrace low-emission slurry spreading technology. That is facilitating improved nutrient use efficiency, farm profitability and air quality. There are issues from January onward in terms of obligations. I will talk to the Minister for agriculture in respect of this. Under the targeted agriculture modernisation schemes, TAMS, grant aid in excess of €76 million was paid over the period 2016 to 2023 to supp…

Will I admit it?

I beg your pardon. I opposed that at the time, and Deputy McGrath knows that. How dare he assert that I-----

I was not in government at the time. I opposed it.

How dare you.

No.

I beg your pardon. I am not spinning any lies. You are.

I want to make the point that-----

I did not.

It was 2014.

There was no confidence and supply in 2014.

None. Deputy McGrath is right that the then Minister, Deputy Howlin, acknowledged it. The Labour Party brought it in and Fine Gael agreed to it at the time.

Deputy Howlin acknowledged subsequently that he felt it was the wrong move. At the start of the last Government, Deputy McGrath refused to back this Government-----

-----even though I want to restore urban councils. We have a policy in Fianna Fáil to restore urban councils.

I believe they are essential to progression of towns the length and breadth of the country. I thought they were a very good exercise in local democracy. I believe urban councils are a very good exercise in terms of local people coming together to do what is right for their locality.

I ask Deputy McGrath to withdraw his assertion that I somehow was involved.

The legislation respects turbary rights and the rights of people, historically and traditionally, who have used turf from their own bogs to fuel their own homes. That will continue. There is no question of people going into people's homes, taking turf and penalising them or anything like that. That is not going to happen. That is scaremongering to an extraordinary degree. To be fair to the Minister, there was a lot of discussion at the time between the three parties in government on the air quality Bill. We are ver…

I know. I was just making the point for clarity purposes. Deputy Harkin got the answer in terms of domestic use.

I acknowledge and recognise how difficult is has been for families generally who lost loved ones during Covid, but particularly for families of nursing home residents who died during the pandemic, which, let us not forget, presented the country and the world with one of the greatest and most wide-ranging public health challenges internationally. This was a global pandemic, the likes of which we had not witnessed since 1918 with the Spanish flu. There is a need for a comprehensive evaluation of how the country manag…

There is a broader issue in terms of a specific home. That is something people may have issues about in terms of how to work that.