The Deputy knows.

All of you know that anything being proposed will have no impact this winter.

No, but you keep on saying this is not the right time. Has it registered with you that it will not impact this winter-----

-----in any shape or form? It is not being stopped right now.

I made the point that in any event, it has been made crystal clear that people who have bogs and who normally cut their turf will be able to continue doing that.

They will continue to be able to share that with their neighbours.

The traditional practices in rural Ireland will continue regarding turf. The Deputies just need a bit of calm perspective and balance in all of this. We can resolve this pragmatically.

The Sinn Féin position is to get on any bandwagon it can to win a few votes. That is its position on a continuing basis.

Do not sue me now.

At the end of the day, we have a democracy. Directly elected Members of this House pass legislation and our fundamental and basic laws on an annual and sessional basis. The power lies in this House in terms of legislation and raising issues on a timely basis. With any funding initiatives and so on, the elected Government and the Oireachtas sanction the Estimates of various Departments. Any individual proposals, and so on, have to go through the various procedures that are laid down. There is no escaping that at the…

First, I want to pay tribute to the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for her commitment and ongoing work on disability issues. I did not get a chance to deal with that issue in my first three minutes. Indeed, I work with the Minister of State and, in my view, there has to be a review of the progressing disability services programme. I will be meeting with the Minister of State and the CEO of the HSE in relation to that in a while, to deal more comprehensively with disability services. The progressing disability …

I did not feel any backslapping yet.

First, I appreciate the issues the Deputy has raised and the individual cases she has raised. It is not satisfactory that any person would have to go through that in regard to access to home care. The issue, as the Deputy knows, is not one of funding now because €150 million of additional funding was provided in 2021 to provide for 5 million more hours of home support, and that funding is being maintained in 2022. That obviously required significantly enhanced recruitment, and it has become a recruitment issue. The…

They are not getting longer.

They are not.

They are not.

Some 2.9 million extra hours were delivered last year. That is a KPI. The Deputy can shake her head all she likes but that happened. Some 55,000 people receive home care. Do we want to improve it? Yes. Do we want to do more? Yes. We will do more. Recruitment is a significant issue.

I want to make the point that in addition to that, there were increases in the carer's allowance in terms of the capital disregard and so forth. Many of the initiatives that were made were welcomed by the carers' association and carers' groups at the time of the budget. The bottom line is this-----

With all respect, the Deputy had her say. I respectfully suggest that the Deputy cannot decipher either. I accept that there is not a day in the week when someone will not be able to point to a particular case-----

-----but what one cannot do-----