No concerns were really raised at that stage. It was only just before the summer. We will allay any concerns we can and there will be proper oversight of the implementation of the strategy. On the issues the Deputy raised on the survivors of mother and baby homes, to be fair to the Minister overall, this Government has moved on a range of issues and has got action and delivery. The Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022, for example, was published and the general scheme of the mother and baby institutions payment s…

Again, the Minister is in constant contact with survivor organisations. There are limits to how he can interfere with the commission because of the legal framework governing commissions of investigation and the manner in which they are set up and that has been problematic but he wants to publish in full the testimonies and he will work with survivor organisations to discuss that issue and other issues. Deputy Bacik raised the issue of-----

I would share the Deputy's concerns and I have heard reports on a change in the non-opening of Citizens Information centres. They have been one of the great and enduring civic actions of citizen empowerment and participation down through the years and I would be a strong advocate of them. When I was Lord Mayor of Cork, I had the honour of granting the freedom of the city to Maureen Curtis-Black, who was a great early advocate of citizens information. I will come back to the Deputy on that and check out exactly what…

Deputy Paul Murphy should acknowledge that significant progress has been made in recent years in cementing the public ownership dimension of Irish Water in terms of the State structure that has been introduced. There is no question about that. I do not believe there is any reason for workers to be concerned. The fundamental issue around the referendum on water is control of a natural resource, besides the mechanisms by which it is managed. Be it an agency or local authorities, that is a matter for ongoing debate. I…

I said he is working on it. We will get a timeline when we are ready for it.

Lads, we have had two years of Covid.

We could not have had a referendum during Covid. We have a lot going on.

We went overboard on the first question to facilitate Deputies but they are milking it now.

I can see that.

On Deputy Boyd Barrett's point, generally speaking, transport for special needs was financed through the Department of Education or the Department of Health. Many NGOs and not-for-profits were financed by the Department of Health in respect of transport facilities. That is the point I was asking him about.

Can the Deputy send me a detailed email on that, outlining the background? He is saying they never got money.

The Deputy should give me the full details and we will follow it up. Give me the full background and we will see where we can identify a potential source of revenue. The last question was from Deputy Joan Collins and dealt with the referendum as well.

I do not have the date.

I was elected to a local authority in 1985. What was the major issue of the day? Water.

It is well sorted. The only issue is it gave campaign fodder for some of you people around the table. We had dealt with it by the mid-1990s, and then there was a by-election somewhere in Dublin and the Labour Party-----

I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive, together. I visited Strasbourg on 7 and 8 June. I began my visit by meeting representatives of the Council of Europe to mark Ireland's six-month presidency of that body and took the opportunity to visit the European Court of Human Rights and meet with Irish staff members in that court. At the invitation of the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, I had the honour to address the plenary session of Parliament on 8 June. I reflected on the 50 years …

Deputy Paul Murphy was first. He spoke about President von der Leyen. I agree with her that excessive profits have been made on the back of the war and the crisis and that there has been a very substantial increase in revenue. By the end of this month, Europe will have made a decision. We are leading on that. We are working with our European partners. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has been involved. As a country, we have made it very clear that we want a mechanism developed, ideally across Europe, to deal with w…

I welcome the opportunity to discuss the report of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, commission of investigation on the Siteserv transaction today.

There may not be. I will have to try to secure a copy. I apologise. It is important to debate the contents of this report in the Dáil for two reasons. The first is that the commission was established as a result of issues raised on the floor of the House and its terms of reference were the subject of extensive discussions between all parties in the Oireachtas both at the outset and during the lifetime of the commission. The second is that the commission has made very serious findings, which are of great concern, wi…

I express my deepest sympathies to the families involved who, having experienced the tragedy of losing a beloved child or loved one, have that grief compounded by the wrong and inappropriate disposal of organs. It is unacceptable and very distressing for the families concerned. In many respects, it is incomprehensible given that there was a major inquiry nearly 20 years ago which covered every single hospital in the country in terms of post-mortem practice. Guidelines were established. It is difficult to comprehend…