I was just saying that nobody else stuck to the time.

She also wrote to him.

Let us see how we get on.

I suggest we see how we get on because the two other groupings are shorter.

However, we should give extra time to this grouping.

On 9 April 2020, more than 1,000 Debenhams workers received an email telling them they had lost their jobs. The researchers who are making a film about the Debenhams dispute have just uncovered evidence that suggests very strongly that the three vulture funds and a consortium including Bank of Ireland had orchestrated this liquidation precisely one year before in order to get around Irish law. That consortium, including Bank of Ireland, I stress, loaded €200 million of debt onto Debenhams Ireland and the Norwegian …

I sent the Taoiseach today the evidence that has been dug up by the researchers making the film about Debenhams, which, by the way, will be shown in the Dublin Theatre Festival in February or March, but they would like some answers in advance of that in respect of who knew what and the role of KPMG, the Bank of Ireland and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in this whole matter.

Did they look into it?

A failure of oversight.

In the interest of time, I will let my question go.

To be clear about what I was saying about Debenhams, the Debenhams group which had been taken over by three vulture funds including two banks, Barclays and Bank of Ireland, saddled a floating charge of €200 million on the Irish operation. That would have been clear to anyone who was looking at it and should have been clear to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment when KPMG informed it of the liquidation. It demonstrated that this was a cynical, tactical liquidation that was orchestrated precisely to th…

People Before Profit’s no-confidence motion had nothing to do with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, as an individual. It had nothing to do with cynicism and certainly was not a stunt. Rather, it was a desperate attempt to force the Government to acknowledge its housing policies are failing thousands upon thousands of real human beings in the most terrible way. It is about more than 3,000 children who are going to spend Christmas in emergency accommodation, some for the second, third or fourth time. It is about…

Come on.

I did not. I campaigned for it for 15 years.

I must comment on my disappointment that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has left, given that the Government earlier, on the confidence motion, spent a lot of its time claiming rather disingenuously that members of the Opposition were not here. We will see to what extent anybody really bought that, but it was part of a concerted effort to prevent the real, substantial discussion as to what is actually happening in a key area of public investment to solve the housing crisis in this country, which is b…

I thank Deputy Bacik for bringing forward this important Bill on Dublin Bay. For my part, as a Dún Laoghaire Deputy in one of the areas that adjoin the Dublin Bay area, and as someone for whom Dublin Bay is a precious resource and amenity, I and my colleagues are happy to support the Bill, what it seeks to achieve in putting a joined-up, coherent focus on protecting the bay as an amenity, a precious resource of biodiversity, a swimming area and all the many other attributes it has. I think I can safely say that I s…

The point is that the general principle is right. We need some body that is genuinely representative of all stakeholders, all those who have a real interest in protecting and enhancing the bay, protecting its biodiversity as an amenity, representing the various stakeholders in the bay area and ensuring that the water quality is the best it can possibly be. That body should have real power and teeth and, critically, should be genuinely representative of all stakeholders. That is the key. I will flag just a few issue…

No, it was not, but from small things important ones often grow. We built up the campaign against that horrific proposal. Subsequently, there was another proposal for a ten-storey apartment block. In Dún Laoghaire, just east of the east pier, the entire area from Teddys ice cream to the east pier would now be blocked out from the main road if that proposal had gone forward. At the time, however, we mobilised thousands of people in a huge series of demonstrations, culminating in a massive demonstration on Scotsman's…

There is no balance to be struck if people are going to be homeless.

They would want to get a move on.