Sorry, in many instances there are. There has been recruitment but there needs to be far more recruitment of therapists, particularly in respect of special needs, through the HSE. As I said, in education we have made very good progress.

This area of access to therapies is a key area where we need far more significant progress than we have had.

I thank the Deputy for raising what is a very important issue. In her opening remarks, she referred to a refusal to use the word "emergency". I pointed out yesterday to the House that when I was launching Housing for All in September 2021 my precise words were, "but the fact is that the social emergency that is our housing crisis cannot and will not be solved by any one department on its own". We will not get into semantics. Suffice to say that housing is the number one and single most urgent and important social i…

The legislation was well balanced in trying to give additional protections to tenants. In many instances, it has been effective in giving that protection. Much of the legislation we have passed has given protection. Some of the issues the Deputy identified in respect of the individual case are legally challengeable. We will examine that to see if any further actions can be taken to rebalance the legislation. If the legislation is being exploited in a way that is wrong, we will have to deal with that.

As I said in reply to Deputy Bacik, the Government has brought in a range of legal measures to protect tenants insofar as we possibly can. Section 35A of the Residential Tenancies Act, known as the Tyrrelstown amendment, provides that where a landlord proposes to sell ten or more units within a single development at the same time, that sale is subject to the existing tenants remaining in situ , other than in exceptional circumstances. That is what is stated in the legislation. It was a carefully drafted amendment t…

I again thank the Deputy for raising the issue. I have said that I will engage with the Minister on this. The Minister said in this House that he engaged with the Deputy about Tathony House. He has engaged with the council on this. We will examine this to see what we can do to help the tenants. Our only interest is helping the tenants in terms of security of tenure. All our legislation has been about security of tenure and trying to provide extra protections. In fact, we have been criticised for that by people on t…

I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. The Deputy will recall that about a fortnight ago, he and Deputy Cahill accompanied me to the campus of Mary Immaculate Teacher Training College where we met the students and senior management. Clearly, the indications are that the authorities there would make a site on the campus available for such a new school. Deputies Lowry and Cahill advocated very strongly for that. Deputy Lowry is aware that the project was approved for the school to provide additional acc…

When I met Deputies Lowry and Cahill in Thurles, I was very taken by the presentation by the authorities of Mary Immaculate College and its vision of a synergy between second-level education, further education and third-level education all on the one campus. This has potential. I have spoken to the Minister for Education. I am conscious that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is sitting two or three seats up from me. To be fair, he has given a lot of green lights to education. The school accommodation p…

To be fair, I think there are a lot of positives in Dr. Scally's report and he does pay tribute to the Department and the Ministers in terms of progress that has been made. He does, however, also identify the absolute necessity for absolute candour in respect of the medical profession and the health services in terms of absolute disclosure to patients. In that respect, the meetings the Deputy referred to were held last week. The Minister has been clear. I am engaging with him on this issue, and with the Chief Whip …

Following the publication of the report, I understand there will be a presentation to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health, but we have no issue regarding having a wider debate in the House, and statements should be organised in respect of the report. The key issue is that legislation is required, but also cultural change in respect of absolute disclosure and candour. Progress has been made but there has been, historically, resistance to enshrining this in legislation. I do not think it is in the political hous…

Whatever I can do, I will do. I want to keep a boxing club of that calibre and quality open because it provides wonderful opportunities in the sport of boxing to young people. I will ask the Minister of State with special responsibility for sport, Deputy Chambers, to follow up with the Deputy. I think we should also follow up with Dublin City Council as well. Grants have been allocated to sporting bodies-----

They have----

-----been allocated to sporting authorities around the energy issue, to the national parent bodies, as I understand it. This money will be allocated at the end of December. We must try to find a way to ensure that clubs like this get supports. There should be a facility through the local authority to sort these things out.

We will follow through on it.

As I have said repeatedly in the House now, one year ago I used the phrase "the social emergency that is our housing crisis".

I am sorry. The Deputy is getting into semantics again. I put it to her that when we bring legislation forward, in the next week or two, I expect her to support it.

Planning is an issue for the hospital, for God's sake.

I mean come on. Locally, they have to get on with these things now.

As regards the idea that the Taoiseach of the day is being asked to tell a hospital to go and apply for planning permission, there is something wrong there. I do not know what the issue is. I take the Deputy's point, though. Speaking more broadly, we want to provide additional services and, in particular, to improve cancer services. The Deputy is aware, in the context of the radiation oncology programme, that a €56 million project is currently under construction at University Hospital Galway, UHG, and not before it…

It is not.