Trying to keep up with this is difficult, but it is important. That is the problem: there is a lot to deal with in a very short time. I particularly want to draw attention to amendment No. 44 and the application for judicial review by a body or organisation the aims or objectives of which relate to the promotion of environmental protection. Such NGOs and so on which have knowledge and expertise in that area should have locus standi or the right to take judicial review and be deemed to have sufficient interest so th…

This is all about access to justice and the right of concerned parties and particularly NGOs which would have a particular concern about the potential impact of human activity or development in the marine area if consents are given and decisions are made which they think could be detrimental to that part of the marine environment. That access to justice is important. I do not really buy the narrative that we often hear, especially from the developers on land, that the big problem is all of the people who object. Th…

What time do we finish?

In that case, we will press the amendments at this stage.

I move amendment No. 44: In page 96, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “ Locus Standi in environmental MAC cases and in proceedings to which Part 2 applies 110. For the avoidance of doubt where the applicant for judicial review under this Chapter, or under Part 2, is- (a) a body or organisation (other than a State authority, a public authority or governmental body or agency) the aims or objectives of which relate to the promotion of environmental protection, and (b) has, during the period of 1 month…

We can boil down the argument of the Minister to there being one law for the rich and one law for the rest. That is actually what SARP amounts to. People who earn more than €70,000 - quite a few of these people earn millions of euro a year - get a special and very substantial tax break on their enormous earnings which ordinary workers do not get. Such people also get tax relief on sending their kids to private schools. We are doing this because if we did not these people would not come here. We will throw tax justi…

It is fine. I have made the point and I made it extensively on Committee Stage.

We tabled this amendment because we believe in tax justice. We believe in an equitable distribution of wealth and income which we are a very long way from. The Minister says we would not get these people whom we need and we would not be competitive given the tax breaks that these incredibly well-paid executives can get elsewhere and therefore we need to do the same. I do not know the chronology of which of the countries the Minister mentioned introduced these tax reliefs first. However, I certainly believe we have …

Not agreed. The Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 will finish Second Stage at 4 p.m. tomorrow and will begin Committee Stage at 6 p.m. Meanwhile, Report on Final Stages of the Maritime Area Planning Bill, involving exactly the same spokespersons, will be on in the Dáil Chamber between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. That is completely unacceptable and people cannot be in two places at the same time. It is also unacceptable that the time allocated for the Maritime Area Planning B…

Unless you have a time machine.

The same spokespersons cannot be in two places at one time.

It is directly clashing.

May I speak very briefly? It is not a political point. It is actually about-----

Yes, I am speaking on the Order of Business.

He did not respond to the question I asked.

Honestly, he did not.

He did not respond to the question I asked about two things being set against each other where the same people are-----

South Africa has done the world a favour by identifying the Omicron variant, and the way we repay them is that the European Union, with the support of the Taoiseach's Government, has consistently refused the calls from South Africa and many other nations, almost the entire global scientific community and many non-governmental organisations for the lifting of the intellectual property restrictions on Covid vaccines so that countries such as South Africa and other poorer countries can get the right to produce vaccine…

It does.

South Africa is asking for the waiver, not me.