I make the point that no date has been set for 2028. Because of this Government we have moved it on. There will be an announcement. It will come to Cabinet again very shortly. It has to go through various processes under the public spending code. Business cases have to be established. All that work is near completion and it will come before Cabinet in the coming weeks. Then it has to go to planning with the local authority and so on.

I never said that last year.

Who said that?

Through the Chair, I do not think that anyone said that it would be open next year.

Next year is 2023. It depends on the planning process and getting it built. We are going to do it as soon as -----

If the Deputy could avoid any objections. He is a man of great influence. It depends on when we get it off the ground.

If I could say a wee bit, we have done everything we possibly can to accelerate this. We are doing it. We will also provide the beds as well.

Deputies Cronin and Paul Donnelly raised public transport services and Go-Ahead Ireland. It is a very serious issue. The National Transport Authority, NTA, has advised the Department of Transport in respect of this. The performance of all public transport operators is closely monitored as part of the contractual arrangements that are in place. Go-Ahead Ireland is not alone in experiencing service reliability issues. The public transport sector has been particularly hard hit by driver shortages as operators attempt …

I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 8, inclusive, together. I visited New York for UN high-level week from 21 September to 23 September. While there, in addition to delivering Ireland's national statement, I had the opportunity to engage with a number of other leaders in round-table discussions, at bilateral meetings and in the margins. I had formal bilateral meetings with the Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres; the President of the UN General Assembly, Csaba Krösi; the President of Nigeria; the Vice P…

Deputy Brady raised the issue of Palestine, as did a number of Deputies. Deputy Boyd Barrett said that I mentioned Palestine. I did more than mention it. I did not pull any punches in respect of Palestine in my speech, and I laid the blame where it clearly lay. I stated unequivocally the illegal nature of the settlements. I was very clear about it in my speech, as I was in condemning Russia. I am not into whataboutery. I will say if something is wrong in any given location. What is going on in Palestine is wrong. I…

I am interested in it. I think Sinn Féin should be consistent and when party members raise it here, they should also raise it when they go abroad on their fundraising missions in America when they meet Senator Schumer and pose for photographs with senior American politicians. I often wonder if they ever raise the issue of Palestine with them. I think that is a fair point at this stage.

Sinn Féin consistently attacks me but the Irish Government has been very responsive on Palestine.

We are one of the largest contributors to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, on a repeated basis, which assists both Gaza and Palestine. We have raised it. UN Secretary General Guterres has praised Ireland. He pulled me aside at a European Council meeting to thank Ireland for its assertiveness on the Security Council in respect of the Middle East and Palestine. It is very easy to come in here and throw cheap shots at the Government's position. We have been ver…

I do not justify what happened in Iraq either, but what is happening now in Ukraine-----

-----is a reckless, illegal, immoral invasion of a neighbouring state. The stock response of the Deputies is to ask what about this and what about that. Can they not very straightforwardly condemn Russia?

Deputy Murphy raised the financing of climate change. Again, Ireland has been to the fore in respect of the global financing of countries in particular those that need supports. We have been very strong on helping small island states, for example, and their need for adaptation in respect of climate change and how it will impact on them immediately. We pushed very strongly at COP26 for an agreement and we increased our own contribution to global financing in respect of climate change. Again at the Security Council, …

I propose to take Questions Nos. 9 to 15, inclusive, together. The well-being framework is a programme for Government commitment to measure how we are doing overall as a country and improve our understanding of quality of life in Ireland. It does this by bringing economic, societal and environmental impacts together under one framework. It also places a particular focus on equality and sustaining well-being into the future. In June, the Government published a second report on Ireland's well-being framework, Underst…

Deputy Brady raised the specific case of Ms Geraldine Lavelle. I am not familiar with the case in its entirety. I agree, however, that the more independent living services and facilities we can provide, the better. As the Deputy knows, we have different opinions from time to time in terms of closing residential care or evolving people from a residential care environment or integrated care setting to a home care setting. This approach has often created challenges for the services, particularly in terms of chronicall…

I am not familiar with the background to that case in terms of the notice that issued to all 35 tenants.

I do not know whether the Deputy has spoken or written to the Minister in respect of this.