You do not. Check the income limits.

There are. In-work poverty is a broad issue that needs to be addressed.

I welcome these proposals tonight in so far as they go but the problem, of course, is that they do not go far enough. Given the struggles that so many families are encountering at the moment in relation to energy prices, one has to ask why the Government cannot go any further. Over the last few months the Government has been saying consistently that it could do nothing about VAT but then there was something it could do. We must ask whether it is possible for the Government to go any further than it is going current…

On behalf of the Social Democrats, I thank Teresa Doolan for her service and congratulate Liam and Noel on their new appointments. Yesterday, the Committee on Health discovered that a business case for the implementation of regional health areas, RHAs, was presented to Cabinet on Tuesday. This is obviously a central element of Sláintecare. Three options were set out. The first was to do nothing, the second was to take a minimalist approach which, as we know, is favoured by Robert Watt, and the third was to implemen…

No.

That is minimalist.

I ask the Minister what he is going to do as the Minister with responsibility for energy. I refer to those actions he actually could take this week if he had the political will to do so. Electric Ireland has, as we know, joined Bord Gáis Energy and Energia in hiking its prices. Its 1.3 million customers will now pay 23% more for electricity and 25% more for gas. The standing charge is also going up by a whopping 36%, so even if people reduce their energy use as the Minister suggests, the companies will still manage…

There is an emergency situation. The Minister and Government need to do much more than just looking at things. Families cannot wait until the budget in October. The Minister asked for ideas. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Age Action, the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS, and other agencies like that have many ideas about things the Government could do now to relieve pressure on people on low and middle incomes. Will the Minister give a commitment to meet those agencies within the next week and hear from …

It is not.

Where are the interest-free loans?

There is a waiting list.

What about support for the working families that get no fuel allowance?

I welcome the publication of this women's health action plan. It is good to have concentration of the issue brought under one document to put a focus on that but I would say it is important that we bear in mind that women's health issues should be mainstream issues. Sometimes when there are women's sections or women's groups, that can result in the sidelining of those issues. Women's health issues should be mainstream, at the front and centre of the health service. As I say, it is good to bring the various elements…

No, it does not.

I want to clarify a comment the Minister made earlier about the letter from the 52 doctors. He said he did not claim that the public comments were misleading and ill-informed. On 25 February, he will recall that he posted on Facebook, quoting extensively from that letter and the comments of the 52 doctors. At the end of his post he said: I share the view of the doctors that the allegations being made, including by certain Dail TDs, are misleading, ill informed and manifestly false. That was effectively saying the s…

It is a company that must uphold the values of the Religious Sisters of Charity.

Nowhere in the world is there a Catholic successor hospital that provides the full range of healthcare services for women. The Minister should own up to this. What he proposes to do and is claiming to do is simply untrue. It cannot happen.

The Minister of State should speak to the subject.

This is out of order.

Hear, hear.