-----give me the cases she has experienced I will follow through on them and get a report back to her.

People can get a passport online very quickly. People have issues with expiry dates. My experience-----

Deputy Murphy is interrupting all the time. The bottom line is that the service has improved dramatically over the past 12 months. It gave out a record number of passports again last year. If Deputy Murphy has cases I ask her please to bring them to my attention. I would like to find out about the case she is speaking about.

Show them. It is the first I have heard of them, by the way.

I do not think we are close to starvation in the country any time soon. I respectfully say regarding the European Union that we always want to try to reduce the regulatory burden on farmers and enterprise. The European Common Agricultural Policy has been the linchpin of farming in this country in terms of underpinning incomes and payments. Let us never forget this in respect of the value of the European Union's agricultural policy. We have to maintain the focus and prioritisation of this and the Government does. Th…

The Department of agriculture and the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, are doing everything to support food production and the primary producers, which is important, and to make sure we open up new export markets for beef.

There were 46,000 valid applications for ACRES. We decided because of the exceptional demand to expand it. This created pressures. It is a €1.5 billion flag scheme. It is a big scheme.

I admire Deputy Stanton's optimism in respect of the fine weather coming. I hope he is right. Anois teacht an earraigh beidh an lá ag dul chun síneadh, 'S tar éis na Féile Bríde ardóidh mé mo sheol I accept that the flooding did significant damage on road structures in the areas affected. I will speak again to the Minister who is responsible to see what we can do within the available Estimates to deal with the situation.

First, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications will deal with that question. I will ask him to respond. I think we are looking at some date at the beginning of June. I am not clear on whether Saturday is the best day either but we will see.

I know the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, has been very active and proactive in working with the Irish Postmasters Union in respect of supports for postmasters generally. I am not sure in this case if the closure was occasioned by a retirement-----

-----or whether it was a policy decision to close it. I do not know the background to the case but I will certainly talk to the Minister in regard to it. I would have had my reservations about some colocations with supermarkets but it has worked in some areas because of the significant footfall, which means there is more access and more people use the service, and that in turn contributes to its sustainability. I know Roscommon is a big county town and I can understand the questions Deputy Kerrane and others raise …

I appreciate the Deputy raising the issue. We have had ongoing engagement with the HSE and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in respect of this issue. There had been issues with the recruitment of therapists and the filling of vacancies in particular in paediatric services and the children's disability network teams in certain locations. The roll-out of the progressing disability services plan has been challenging in some, although not in all, areas. Other aspects of the health…

We did take that forward-----

-----and we did ensure a rethink. There was a review.

There was a further review of previous reports. I am not sure the 2017 report is as clear as the Deputy has outlined in terms of undergrounding. EirGrid has been consistent in saying undergrounding is not feasible. We did ask for a review of that and we secured it from the Minister. We looked at what happens internationally, as well as the specifics of this case. The review has since been published. EirGrid is still engaging with farmers in the area. The project has been delayed for quite a long time. Issues will a…

I am not sure what proposals will work.

The Deputy has been a consistent advocate in this area. The Revenue is engaged in an awareness programme around people's entitlements and what they can claim. I will certainly talk to various Ministers to see whether it is worthwhile putting a cross-departmental-----

What happens sometimes is that there can be an overestimation of what Departments might think would be the expenditure of a given programme. For example, we would argue that the expenditure for rent relief may have been overestimated. On another level, there is a lower take-up, although there might be other reasons for this situation. I take the Deputy's point that we must examine it. The problem here is that we need informed decision-making. If we are told on one level that if we bring in a tax relief it is going …

Perhaps the one Department that might want to sit on it, but we might think about it, would be the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. I am not so sure it would be so enthusiastic about the idea that we would encourage people to take up all their expenditure entitlements.

As I said earlier, there has been a significant increase in the number of special classes and seven new special schools have been formed in recent years. I do not have the background to the specific individual cases the Deputy referred to. The National Council for Special Education, NCSE, is there. I ask the Deputy to engage with the Minister and bring to her attention the specific area concerned. All schools should be inclusive and should provide for children with additional and special needs. This is my view.