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We have made this point consistently to the UK Government.

I apologise.

Children's Health Ireland has produced a strategy and there is a national strategy for accelerating genetics and genomics medicine to build a strong national genetics service. It was launched in December 2022. It is important. It is key to improving the evidence base and infrastructural support in genetic testing. The HSE is currently examining national testing capacity and developing a national testing directory for genetics and genomics which will map the current genetic tests conducted across Ireland, providing …

The Deputy did raise that issue. I will talk to the HSE, the National Council for Special Education and the Department of Education and I will ask the Minister for Education, and the Minister for Health in respect of the CDNTs, to come back to the Deputy on this. As I said earlier, we need multidisciplinary teams in schools. The progressing disability services programme has not worked. It has not been effective and quite a number of communities have been impacted negatively by the withdrawal of therapists from spec…

I will revert to the Minister on the timeline for the legislation. My observations are that no one in Ireland has any difficulty in accessing alcohol. Alcohol or certainly excessive alcohol use has negative impacts. However, there are broader questions underpinning the legislation, to be fair. Many people in the House have called for reform of the licensing laws. It would be useful for more detailed proposals to emerge. I will come back to the Deputy on the Minister's position on a health impact assessment and the …

First, as the Deputy will be aware, 12,000 social homes were delivered in total last year, 2023. The provision of social housing is a very effective intervention in reducing homelessness and reducing the time people spend in emergency accommodation. The homelessness situation is now much more complex than it was five or ten years ago - the Deputy knows that despite the shaking of the head-----

-----regarding the composition of who becomes homeless, how people become homeless and so on. The first-----

Yes, we have had new measures. The Deputy knows that.

We successfully intervened in reducing----- Deputy Eoin Ó Broin: It is not reducing anything. It is rising.

Working with the homeless organisations-----

----- to reduce and get access for homeless people to social housing much more quickly-----

-----than any time in the past.

I am done.

I thank the Deputy for raising this issue of section 38 and section 39 organisations and parity. We are close to full employment in this economy and one of the biggest challenges in the health service has been, notwithstanding funding being provided, recruiting sufficient staff in certain categories. More than 28,000 extra people have been employed in the health service in past four years and that has put pressure on the agencies and on the section 39 bodies in particular. That has been compounded through pay issue…

He is absolutely correct. It cannot just drag on year to year and a fundamental reappraisal is required, in my view.

I want to appreciate the number of Sinn Féin Deputies who have called me Taoiseach this morning.

Which sanction?

My understanding is that about €40 million was spent on the summer provision scheme last year.

They can get it wherever people have a service to provide. The Minister has improved-----