It does exist.

Stop. Try living in Donegal.

Not at all. The people of Donegal gave it a chance and we will not be fooled twice.

Stop and do the right thing.

Do it now.

It is not fear. Has the Taoiseach listened to the families over the past 24 hours?

What is the answer?

Why not run the whole scheme?

Let the Housing Agency run the whole scheme.

The Taoiseach has heard from Deputies Doherty and Pringle. I can tell him that there are serious concerns coming from Donegal and other counties in the west of Ireland on the square foot issue. The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, urgently needs to come before the House to make a statement and take questions about this. He needs to give urgent clarification. There is serious concern coming from families in the affected counties already. The Taoiseach avoided answering questions from Deputies Doherty and Pringle. T…

Will we hear from the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien?

Can the Business Committee convene to sort these issues out?

Have we agreed to schedule a meeting of the committee?

As the Taoiseach is aware, I and many other Opposition Deputies have raised the issue of the Minister, Deputy Ryan's, controversial appointments to the Climate Change Advisory Council. I wish to raise these matters again today in the hope the Taoiseach will address our specific concerns. As the Taoiseach is aware, the Government rejected a Sinn Féin amendment to the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill last year that would have brought the appointments process to the advisory council in line w…

Contact tracing in schools effectively ceased at the end of September. Since then the level of infection has more than trebled among primary school children although in the absence of properly collected data by the health system, the incidence rate may be higher. No satisfactory explanation has been provided by the Government as to how schools went from being safe to unsafe virtually overnight. We support the Government in its intention to keep the schools open but what we cannot understand is why the Minister for …

I welcome the Ceann Comhairle back. On the commitments in the programme for Government on defects, the Housing Agency has been tasked with overseeing the pyrite resolution scheme. Over 2,000 families in Dublin and north Leinster have availed of the scheme. The Housing Agency does the testing, makes the prognosis, engages with building contractors and assists with rental accommodation. From start to finish it is involved in the process. Why is the Housing Agency not overseeing the defective concrete blocks scheme in…

What about the Housing Agency?

What about the Housing Agency?

Why is it not running the entire scheme?

This is an important opportunity for us to unite on all sides of this House to condemn what is an attack on what we recognise as democratic standards and the rule of law internationally. In any democracy the role of NGOs in holding the government to account is absolutely critical. All of the six civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations that have been designated as terrorist are internationally respected and endorsed. I have been at numerous international meetings of parliamentarians over recen…