I will speak to the Minister in respect of this. There may also be a role for the Oireachtas committee to interrogate the issue. I will talk to the Minister and come back to the Deputy.

The Deputy has raised the broader issue of wastewater treatment capacity within the Clonakilty area. There were issues with regard to a more long-term proposal linking Bandon to Clonakilty. I will talk to Uisce Éireann in respect of Shannonvale to ascertain what measures can be taken to facilitate the restoration of the children's playground.

The Deputy has not explained why it would never be used. The HSE-----

The HSE is committed to this and the Deputy is correct to say it has been seeking a site. Is he saying the HSE should stay on the existing site?

I would simply say that generally speaking, acquiring new sites is a good thing for the health service because it allows us to build modern, custom-built facilities. Normally, the HSE deals with the local authority to work out the planning and zoning context. That is what normally happens and what normally should happen. If, from the HSE's perspective, the purchasing of the new site is the key to unlocking the building of a new facility, then it should go ahead with that but I will talk to the HSE about the Deputy'…

First of all, the retrofitting plan is being paid for by the carbon tax which Sinn Féin has opposed on successive occasions.

I am sorry but no retrofitting plan will work if it does not have revenue that is sustainable over a ten-year period.

What we did, in line with previous recommendations from Oireachtas committees, was to put in place sustainable, ring-fenced funding for retrofitting. It was the first time that was ever done and I would appeal to the Deputy to be very clear as to whether he supports that revenue stream for retrofitting. If he does not support it, then all of the rest is hot air.

It is all hot air.

On our targets, by the way, the retrofit numbers are up 80% in one year. We beat the target by 10,000, with more homes than ever availing of support. Our fuel use for heating fell considerably in 2023 as a result. That happened because, as I said, the Government ring-fenced the majority of our carbon taxes to support people to retrofit their homes. Use of coal for electricity fell by half last year. Oil is down 80% and gas is down 7%. Farmers are responding as well.

I thank the Deputy for raising the case of Bryonny Sainsbury. Again I offer sincere sympathies to the family although words are no consolation when such a dreadful death happens and particularly a death through medical misadventure. I will talk to the Minister for Health and ask him to ask the authority to release the report. The report should be released to the family, given all the trauma it has gone through.

The play and language support programme is an essential and very good programme and it is very effective. I would have been involved a number of decades ago in introducing the first kind of those language classes in primary schools and the impacts were dramatic in terms of progress for children.

I am sure the Minister is aware of it.

There was a problem in the delay in actioning. There should not be a delay in these matters because there should be regular systemic issuing. It is issued now in the case to which the Deputy refers, but there should not be issues.

I thank the Deputy for raising this. Obviously, I was not in a position to watch the deliberations of the Committee of Public Accounts in respect of the Football Association of Ireland. I will have a look at them after. In the first instance, we will look at how the money was allocated. If funding is allocated, we want it to be spent for the purposes of the allocation. It is becoming somewhat challenging though that increasingly the Oireachtas and the Government seem almost to have as their responsibility the micro…

I have made my point.

I was alarmed at the conclusions of the survey by AsIAm and Inclusion Ireland in respect of children in seclusion. Because of certain behaviours that are consequent on a particular condition that a child might have, the child is restrained in some shape or form, or the child is isolated. That speaks to a lack of multidisciplinary supports within the system-----

Let me speak, please. You can have guidelines all you like. You can do all sorts of things but what it speaks to is that we have set systems of allocation of special education assistants, SNAs, and special education teachers, and they have expanded exponentially. I am not arguing politically. They just have expanded exponentially but in certain cases the schools involved may need additional multidisciplinary supports. In many cases these behaviours are challenging and difficult. In my view, the last resort should b…

However, the school will say it has huge challenges, etc., so what we need then is to analyse each case.

The NCSE should look at this.