The Minister for Finance has indicated that he is giving that further consideration. It is being pushed out to next year. A lot of work has to be done yet in respect of that issue. That is the current status. We are looking to next year before anything happens in that respect.

All the Deputies from Tipperary have alerted me to the situation in Tipperary town and the challenges being faced, from socioeconomic challenges to education. I certainly will engage with those issues and work with all the Deputies to see how best we can pursue them.

I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. In the context of scoliosis and other conditions in respect of which surgery is urgently required, we are anxious that such surgery would be available to children. Covid-19 impacted on paediatric care and on adult care. I am not sure of the clinical context here but I will examine this and determine the current position in terms of the delays.

Overall, since reforms were introduced some time ago, the national ambulance service nationally has been an effective service. It has been particularly effective during Covid-19 in terms of the work ambulance personnel have done on behalf of the State. I certainly will engage with the service and the HSE on the points the Deputy raised in respect of Cashel and follow up on that.

Nobody should be denied entitlements to social protection. These are universal entitlements across the State. That is the position.

All Deputies know the Low Pay Commission is an independent commission. Every Deputy in this House supports low-paid workers. The last five recommendations have been implemented by the Government. That is the whole reason behind having ICTU, unions and employers together on the commission. As has been said, ICTU was not in a position to accept the recommendation of 10 cent. It wanted a minimum increase of 20 cent. The State's intervention in supporting workers has been unprecedented. Over 750,000 workers are now on …

It was revealed subsequently that some Sinn Féin Deputies took the full Dáil wage and the Exchequer never benefited from it.

I just want to make the point-----

Deputy Brady raised an issue-----

Deputy Brady raised an issue-----

The Deputy is not going to try to browbeat people with shouting, roaring and heckling.

The Deputy knows damn well-----

The Deputy is being very simplistic, very populist.

I am going to come back to the point on public service pay.

The salary of a Deputy is linked to the principal officer grade and has been for more than 20 years. Does Sinn Féin want to break that link? It is the wealthiest party in this House. It is the wealthiest party in this country. It draws expenses from Westminster. It draws expenses from the Northern Assembly. That is well documented by programmes.

The party has no shame about how it draws money left, right and centre.

The way to deal with wages in this country is to have a progressive taxation system that taxes those on middle and high incomes more than those on low incomes. That is what we have in this country. I am not going to play cheap political games-----

-----like the Deputy's party wants to do all the time. We do not raise-----

I have not raised millions of dollars in the United States like the Deputies' party. I do not have offices-----

I thank the Deputy for his fair question.