I cannot give that commitment but I will talk to the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, about that. We know that more demand will mean a higher level of renewable energy on the grid to meet Ireland’s 2030 renewable targets. The Government is now developing projects and policies to encourage the development of renewable energy by the data centre sector to meet its demand and to meet the target of 15% of electricity demand from corporate power purchase agreements by 2030. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland recentl…

First of all, the Government is deeply concerned about the decision of Aer Lingus yesterday. We are not blaming anyone but are seeking to do something about it. Government has been supporting both the airlines and the airports from the beginning of the pandemic, which I say without contradiction, through the means of the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, the various other schemes and the capital supports to the airports in capital and through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, to support Aer Lingus. I…

First of all, ISIF is a commercial loan facility in respect of ensuring liquidity to protect jobs, which was a big objective at the time.

The airlines have lost heavily over the past year because of the pandemic and received liquidity support through the ISIF pandemic stabilisation and recovery fund.

There was a €32 million regional State airports programme which gave capital and current funding to Shannon and Cork Airports and which was important to them. Getting international travel back up and running is obviously the key to the continued economic well-being of Shannon, of Cork and the regions. Through the urban regeneration and development fund, URDF, for example, we have invested heavily in the regions. We need to grow the regional cities-----

-----to offset what the Deputy said earlier about the 96%.

We need to build up the cities around the country. That is not an issue of points of contact and the chairman is not the issue.

I have dealt with this earlier. This is not an abandonment of anybody. There is a key issue about the supply of apartments and that is one that has to be balanced. We could do what people want and increase taxation or do this or that. All of that could, cumulatively, reduce-----

-----the supply of apartments on the market. However, what we have done now with the 10% stamp duty is made a far better situation for first-time buyers of houses and duplexes. We are going to keep this-----

We need to build more apartments and we need to-----

We need to work on the viability of apartments.

The cost-rental scheme will be important in that regard and the affordability-----

The affordability initiatives that have been undertaken by the Minister will help, but we have an awful lot more to do-----

-----and we are not going to do it if we end up in-----

------endless ideological warfare, which seems to be the only-----

------proposition coming from the Deputy and others.

The bottom line is that we need more supply. I have------

Obviously, the Minister for Education is responsible for the overall building programme. I know that Deputies across the constituency are engaged on this issue. Deputy Lahart has been in touch about it as well. I will certainly talk to the Minister to see if we can get progress on that project.

I thank Deputy Murphy for raising this issue. The Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, has been in touch with me as well about the CT scanner issue. We will be working with the Minister for Health and the HSE on that because I know there has been a campaign locally and a lot of fundraising as well behind that. Regarding the wider programme, the national HSE service plan is designed and a very substantial amount of funding now allocated to try to unblock some of those waiting lists, particularly in the mental hea…

It is unfortunate in the House of late that politics and politicians get compared to Nazi Germany. This is the second time in recent weeks that Deputy McGrath has articulated that and I think it is bringing the Parliament-----