The Deputy is making fair points. The situation is not satisfactory at all. Since the High Court decision of more than a year ago, we need to legislate. The Oireachtas needs to bite the bullet and legislate on assessments of need because big delays are coming. There is now a huge absorption of professionals on the assessment side but not on the intervention side. It certainly needs reorganisation. The disability sector has been taken from the Department of Health and moved to the Department of children. I expect th…

I certainly will. I will raise it with the Minister, who will raise it with BusConnects. This is the Clongriffin core bus corridor and the proposal for pedestrian-cyclist connection, which plans to provide direct access for the residents of Ayrfield estate to the high levels of bus service on the Malahide Road. The Deputy has said that a safety issue then arises. The NTA engages in consultations with Deputies, councillors and so on. It is to be hoped that the NTA will listen to concerns-----

-----about the safety aspect of this because these are important issues that we cannot be oblivious to. It cannot all be just an engineering solution. The needs of the community and of children have to be taken into account.

I do not know who the individual is.

Yes. Let me finish. I will make an important point and statement. When I was Taoiseach on the dates concerning the allegations against this individual, I received security briefings but I was never told and never briefed that there was a spy in the Oireachtas, which to all intents and purposes is what the article in The Sunday Times asserted. I am very surprised at the degree to which everybody, herdlike, has grabbed onto the story and said, "This is it; who is the person?". I am absolutely amazed. There is a more …

I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. I understand fully the points she made. I do not know whether she has spoken to the Minister for Justice or the Minister of State at that Department about the case. Obviously, we need GPs. They are vital in rural Ireland in particular. I do not have the details of the case. In fairness, there is an independent process for the granting of visas and so on. If the Deputy forwards the details to me or the Minister for Justice, we might be able to progress it.

I make the point generally that President Biden was of some assistance to Ireland in respect of Brexit and in the Good Friday Agreement. He has supported the Good Friday Agreement all his life, but particularly during Brexit. We were anxious to commemorate 100 years of diplomatic relations between the US and Ireland. That is a good thing. I am not anti-US generally. The Deputy may be but I am not. That said, I oppose what is happening in the Middle East. I do not believe the US should be arming Israel given the nat…

It clearly is, because we cannot physically------

We cannot physically-----

The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and the Department of Transport are responsible for that area because it is civilian overflight. As the Deputy knows, anyone wanting to fly weaponry through Irish sovereign airspace must seek permission.

If they do not, they are violating our legal framework. In the first instance, the Department is trying to ascertain from the Belgian Government and from the company involved the full details on this and then deal with the company subsequently.

I will talk to the Minister for Health about that. That is both the flu vaccine and the Covid vaccine for healthcare workers. I will follow that up.

Is it both Ukrainians and-----

I accept the point the Deputy is making. Obviously, the Russian war in Ukraine created many pressures and caused the largest displacement of people since the Second World War on the European Continent with about 12 million people displaced. That had an impact. There is a programme of change going on with some contracts not being renewed, and also relocation. The Ukrainian population has come down significantly, particularly the number of Ukrainians in State accommodation. I think it has come down to 63,000; I can c…

That is true and Clare generally has been a very receptive county overall but the challenges of migration are enormous. It is because of the earlier stuff we were talking about. There are wars all over the world and people are leaving with their children, trying to get out. What is going on in the world is terrible.

This is a budget for a modern country determined to protect its success and use its resources to permanently tackle key issues. It is a balanced, fair and progressive budget that significantly expands vital public services and supports. It is a budget that protects and promotes the economic success that generates the resources on which these public services and supports rely. Critically, it is a budget that shows urgency and ambition in further accelerating investment in home building, critical infrastructure, envi…

-----which claim that nothing positive has ever happened in our country and that just demanding more of everything is the answer. Even during the pandemic, the addiction to destructive opposition showed itself repeatedly. Every measure we introduced to help workers and businesses was attacked as paltry and when we had to end emergency measures, we were attacked again. We saw another level of cynicism at the start of this debate when Sinn Féin representatives started attacking levels of welfare payments which their …

In response to a balanced, ambitious and progressive-----

I am clearly striking home.

I take the Deputy's interruptions as a compliment on the quality of my speech. In response to a balanced, ambitious and progressive budget, we have heard an incoherent barrage of attacks and no meaningful debate. The Opposition would like nothing better than to claim that they are facing some form of neo-Thatcherite Government. Of course, the reality is that we have been consistently progressive. The biggest income boost of the measures in our cost-of-living package and the more permanent budget package goes to the…