Same.

What about the US ambassador?

I ask him to respond.

Taoiseach, I want to raise an extremely tragic case. On Tuesday, 24 September, Mihai Marandici died of sepsis in Temple Street Children’s University Hospital after being transferred by ambulance from Tallaght University Hospital. He was seven months old. His devastated parents, Nicolae and Olesea are looking for answers. Their solicitor contacted me this morning on their behalf. At 6 o’clock on the Sunday, they brought their baby into Tallaght Hospital with a high fever and six hours later they were told he was fin…

No, that was Fine Gael.

I know they are.

No, we did not, as we point out every single time.

Fuck off.

Asshole.

You are a fucking asshole.

Asshole.

To deal with the topics at hand, I think Deputy Healy-Rae was suggesting we do not know where money comes from. I will tell you where it comes from. Money is wealth generated by workers. It is not generated by millionaires like you, Deputy Healy-Rae, who come in here, railing against increasing-----

Okay; your brother is a millionaire. I apologise. No problem.

That is not a problem.

Fine. There is a game played in here, above all, by the Healy-Raes. There are others on that side of the House who come in here and play a game of being the ordinary man and woman standing up for ordinary people who do not believe in nonsense like climate change. The Healy-Raes, in my opinion, do not stand up for ordinary people. We heard just a moment ago the Deputy railing against increases in the minimum wage. Who do they stand for? They stand for-----

People can look at the record------

-----and see that what is consistent is that while pretending to talk about common sense and all that good stuff, in reality, they represent the interests of the rich in this country. That is the truth of it. It is quite ironic today to have speeches telling us it is not possible to increase corporation tax or to have a tax on wealth. The reason it is ironic today is that I got a push notification from The Irish Times to say that the first €3 billion tranche of Apple tax money has landed in State coffers. I remembe…

The Child Law Project has done extremely important work in shining a light on the multiple ways this State fails children, especially vulnerable children. There has, however, been no reporting of childcare proceedings since June because the Minister ended funding for the Child Law Project. Will the Minister tell us when funding will restart and reporting can recommence? In particular, will he tell us that will happen before the coming election?

The question that is begged is why there is this delay. This was foreseeable. The period was coming to an end and there was going to be a new tendering process, so why this gap, at the very least, in funding? I will read a selection of headlines from the last volume of reports from the Child Law Project. They include "Court hears of a 'spectacular example of statutory agencies not working together' in case of autistic teenager", "Judge joins CAMHS as notice party to explain why a child on priority list for over 18 …

We still do not have an adequate explanation. Again, this is not a surprise. The period of funding was going to run out and there was going to be a new tender process and yet there is still a gap. There are two possible explanations. One is the political motivation of leaning on the project. The Minister says that is not the case. The other explanation is no more satisfactory. It is about the underfunding and understaffing of the Department of children and low priority being given to child protection. They are the …