The legislation coming through the House should reflect that. We have seen what has happened in other European countries. I think the Chief Justice was correct in saying that many aspects we consider fundamental can, at times, be fragile. We are witnessing that now in countries like the United States and the United Kingdom as well-----

-----in terms of the European Convention on Human Rights.

To clarify, the recommendations are not amendments, as the Deputy noted.

However, the recommendations will obviously be considered, as would normally be done.

The recommendations have to be put into the form of amendments. If the recommendations were accepted by the Government and the Minister, they then have to be legalesed, so to speak, and put into the required amendments. I will pursue that with the Minister.

We have the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and various mechanisms to oversee any application of the kind the Deputy referred to. We cannot arbitrate for that on the floor of the House. Again, regarding any fresh investigation, there has been a whole series of reviews and I am not going to give an off-the-cuff response to the Deputy's request either. I will talk to the Tánaiste and others regarding the agencies under the wing of his Department and those of other Ministers to get their assessment of the situat…

I congratulate the Ukrainian mother on the birth of her baby boy in the midst of the obvious trauma that family has gone through in fleeing a terrible war on the Ukrainian people. This is a moment of joy for the mother and the family. I ask the Deputy to give me the details. Many people have pledged homes, not for the long term but for relatively good timeframes, where I am sure accommodation could be arranged to facilitate that family.

I did not get the full gist of everything the Deputy said. I do not pick up on the adjournments of every county council in the country. Was it Cork County Council that adjourned yesterday?

Again, regarding cost-of-living issues, we have taken measures in respect of hauliers, farmers, including tillage farmers, and various groups to try to alleviate the pressures on them in respect of the cost of fuels. We also took certain measures under the Brexit adjustment reserve and funding has been made available for decommissioning schemes and so on. I accept those measures relate to the Brexit issue but they are fairly significant for the fishing sector. I have not heard the presentations made at Cork County …

I will speak to the Minister and come back to the Deputy regarding the interim measures. Four years seems a bit long.

There has been a huge acceleration in home care. Over 1 million extra hours have been provided in the last year and a half. However, because of that extra provision the skills issue or the availability of workers became a big issue. The Deputy is right that the task force was set up to see if something could be done in respect of upskilling, etc. I will come back to the Deputy on whether the Minister has interim recommendations from that work.

I appreciate the Deputy's concerns. Core funding is worth up to €221 million to the sector, so it is a significant provision. To access the new funding, services must guarantee to maintain fees at or below September 2021 levels. It is based on operating hours, the number of places offered by services, the age group of the children to whom places are offered and the number of graduate lead educators. The Department has issued a funding guarantee that all services will receive at least the same level of funding and c…

The Deputy acknowledged that this has been the largest ever increase in the DEIS programme. We will work with the Minister regarding other aspects of supports for those schools, particularly in terms of meals, etc. It was interesting to see that the systemic study undertaken by the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, of the education systems North and South, that we funded under the shared island programme, identified the DEIS programme as being a key factor in better school completion rates in the Republ…

It is difficult to comment on each individual case that comes up on the floor of the House, particularly regarding a treatment abroad application.

Yes, just let me finish. I take it from what the Deputy is saying that the consultant has unequivocally recommended treatment.

If the Deputy will send on the details to us, we can pursue it.

I appreciate the concerns of the Deputy but-----

Two matters have been raised involving individual applications to State services. I can certainly comment on policy frameworks but I am not clear that I can arbitrate without having any details.

Legislation will be brought forward to shorten the legislation that was previously introduced in the House some years ago in respect of giving directions to schools to accept children with special needs. We want to move quickly so that we can deal with an outstanding number of cases where children do not have access to school places next September. More fundamentally, I want to see a legislative framework that has inclusion as a core principle, that all schools have to accept, within reason, children with special n…

As the Deputy is aware, the overall commemoration and the decade of centenaries programme have been advised by an expert advisory committee. Dr. Maurice Manning, Dr. Martin Mansergh and other historians have been involved and they have done a very good job overall in advising successive Governments and the Oireachtas on the decade of centenaries programme. They did not recommend memorials and statues, although they said that it was up to local groups and so on and that they could, by all means, receive supports. Th…