You settled for less in 2019.

I appreciate that Deputy Mac Lochlainn referred to me as the Taoiseach. I clearly made a lasting impact on him.

I appreciate the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Anne Rabbitte, met with SNAP, which is the parent representative body. Obviously, as regard to decisions that are required for a new school, it does not happen overnight, as Deputy Smyth will know. I refer to decisions about the type of school and the range and spectrum of additional needs which would be catered for. All of that must be factored in. I have no doubt the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, will …

First, the Government provided this cross-Border healthcare programme to substitute for the older-----

-----European programme. Brexit put paid to that programme. Therefore, the Government intervened to create a bespoke cross-Border mechanism in respect of cross-Border services, particularly in the area of cataracts. As for the cost and so on, a lot depends on how much private operators are charging in the North. Obviously, the HSE reviews this on an ongoing basis. I will get further background on this for Deputy Stanley.

I welcome the Deputy's acknowledgement of the importance of the retrofit programme.

There would be no retrofitting, from a climate perspective, it if was not for the carbon tax, which has given us the revenue to enable us-----

-----to do the first ever comprehensive retrofit scheme, which includes both social housing, housing for the elderly and-----

Sinn Féin opposed the carbon tax. The reality is the retrofit programme would not be possible at all. Sinn Féin needs to get its house in order in respect of a coherent plan.

Yes, we want more to do with them, but you are not.

There are ongoing challenges in agriculture, particularly because of climate, inclement weather and changing and uncertain weather patterns. It seems to me, from people to whom I have been talking recently, that there is a particular challenge on the tillage side. We will keep this under review.

The Government has continually prioritised the homelessness issue. Government has provided increased funding, year after year, to many of the social housing providers and approved housing bodies, AHB, quite an extensive number of which receive very substantial funding. As I said in an earlier reply, our focus has been on prevention where we have had significant success-----.

-----in exiting people out of emergency accommodation more quickly than would have been the case before. We have built more houses in the past four years than were built in the previous ten. We intend to continue to build more houses, particularly social houses, to deal with the social housing crisis and the issue of homelessness. Homelessness is a multifaceted and complex issue. I would not simplify it to the degree the Deputy did earlier.

I would hate to think that there are any public servants counting the days until the Deputy leaves to go to the European Parliament.

It would shock me that there would be people counting the days, although not everyone has the Deputy's uniquely creative approach to issues. I mean that as a compliment. Compliance is taken seriously by the Minister for children and his Department. There is no doubt that there has been an unprecedented increase. Some 31,000 people, of whom some 8,000 are children, are now living in IPAS accommodation. There have been compliance issues. The Minister is working to deal with those. Where compliance issues emerge, he i…

I hope it will be factual. The word "collation"-----

I thank the Deputy. I have no doubt that he read the report from cover to cover. During my time as Minister for Education, the Deputy was my Opposition counterpart. I know from his diligence and his work that he would read every report that was ever published. I take his point that the retrofit programme has been a success. However, he makes a fair point about the 250,000 houses using oil. The question is whether we can transition them to heat pumps more quickly. I also accept the point about older people above the…

That does not mean the Deputy read it.

That is not the case. I will not take lectures from the Deputy in terms of how to communicate with grieving families. and how his party has communicated with grieving families down through the decades.

No, it is not. I am just making the point. The scoping inquiry and the publication of Judge Haugton's report into-----