When will the Government announce the roll-out of vaccines for five- to 11-year-olds?

I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice for giving me time. I appreciate what the Minister and Minister of State are trying to do here and I welcome the amendments, but this falls far short of what we really need. There is a major crisis within the forestry sector. The chair and the other members of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine will agree with me on this point. This is the one issue that has continually been discussed in that committee since the start of this Dáil. It is the one issue which has contin…

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On 8 December 2000, Trevor Deely went missing in Dublin. Trevor, a 22-year-old employee of Bank of Ireland Asset Management, had attended a Christmas party that evening. On leaving the party, he stopped off at the bank where he worked and disappeared shortly afterwards. The last sighting of him was at 4:14 a.m. on Haddington Road. The search for Trevor continues. In fairness, his parents, Michael and Ann Deely, his siblings, family, colleagues and friends have put huge effort in over the past 21 years in the search…

I spoke on this Bill last Friday. I support the Government's efforts. The science does not lie. Consider the number of hospitalisations. The Government and NPHET asked people to reduce their social contacts, which people have since done over the past number of weeks. It is working and there are fewer people in hospital with Covid. It is easy for the people opposite. I feel strongly on this. Some of the stuff is bizarre. Yesterday, Sinn Féin said that it supported public health. I have seen a Sinn Féin councillor in…

I want to follow on from some of the earlier speakers who spoke about consistency throughout the country. Definitely, consistency is needed. There are plenty of examples in my own county of Wexford. I will give the Minister one example where a son or daughter wants to move into the family farm and the parents want to build a small bungalow or small house somewhere on the family farm. They are now being forced to build a granny flat onto their family home. I do not think that is acceptable. There might be younger ch…

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I welcome the Bill and I thank the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, for bringing it forward. I have been listening to some of the debate over the past while. Most of those who have spoken come from urban constituencies. I come from a rural constituency and maybe I hear very different testimonies from those being heard by other Deputies. Some Deputies opposite believe there is an easy solution to this issue. There is no easy solution. If an easy solution were available, th…

The Deputy should listen back to what he said on national radio. I did not come in here to disrupt Deputy Ó Broin and I would appreciate it if he did not disrupt me.

I have listened to some of the Deputy's commentary on national radio. It is absolutely absurd how he treats some of our really good landlords.

I can cite for the House many terrible experiences I have heard about with regard to tenants, where landlords have been really fair and have invested in the properties in respect of which the tenants have shown abuse. There should be more protections for the landlord than are currently in place. In this regard, I often question the Residential Tenancies Board and some of its outcomes which have been very unfair on the landlords involved. I am lucky that I own my own house and that in the evening I can go home to my…

First, I want to comment on the previous speaker. I am not sure where she gets the money tree from but she is like the Sinn Féin Party: there is money for everything, give it all free, charge nothing and give everyone whatever they want. I suppose that is socialist politics and nobody-----

Did I interrupt you?

Please have the manners not to interrupt anybody. I made a comment like every parliamentarian. I was elected to this House, like the Deputy, to give my view. The Deputy wants to give everything for free - the money tree is there - and pay for absolutely nothing. Unfortunately, we are back to a situation that we all wished we would not have to revisit, and it is unfortunate we are back. I know people can blame Government policy and Government decisions and everything like that, but I laugh when I hear people on the …

Did I interrupt you? Please have a little bit of manners.

Do you have any manners?

Well, then, you should use them.

Well, then, you should use them. Have manners. Did I interrupt you? I call on our national broadcaster to be responsible in its broadcasting. That is why it is being given the licence fee to do so. It is very difficult for the Government to impose restrictions. It has not been easy on the citizens of this State. It has not been easy for the social fabric or the economic fabric of this State. Yesterday, with my colleague Deputy Durkan and many others, I met people from the hospitality sector. It has been a really di…

On a point of order, I am a Member of this House for almost 20 years now. Can I ask what are the procedures around Deputies taking photographs in the Chamber of the voting board? I see Deputies Bríd Smith and Gould are great photographers. On the day that Tom Burke from the Irish Independent has passed away-----

The phone would be confiscated if you took a photograph. I think action should be taken.