I understand Deputies Cullinane and Ward are sharing time.

Is the Bill opposed?

Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.

No, he is not.

If the Minister was not going to be here, you should have been informed.

That is most unsatisfactory. I apologise that you have had that experience. You should not have had it. The Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, has arrived in the nick of time. He is here on his white steed to save the day.

Before I call on our colleagues, Deputies Connolly and Conway-Walsh, I should declare a personal interest in this. I have had experience as a father, in particular. I saw my four children, as teenagers and students, open credit union accounts with the proceeds of their part-time jobs. Each year, they received a request from the credit union to explain where they got the money from and to show that I had not pilfered or siphoned it off from somewhere. They were told, when they supplied the necessary information, tha…

Before moving to Leaders' Questions, I want to draw Members' attention to the fact that we have a very distinguished visitor in our Gallery today, the Northern Ireland Assembly Speaker, Mr. Edwin Poots MLA. Mr. Poots is most welcome. Speaker Poots has given distinguished and dedicated service since he was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly way back in 1998 and is one of just two remaining members elected on that occasion. Speaker Poots, I very much look forward to working with you, as I worked with your…

We cannot have a conversation on the matter.

I think the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, will knock heads together.

Thank you. The time is up.

Thank you. We will ask the Taoiseach for a response.

That concludes Questions on Policy or Legislation. It is not my job to tell people what they can or cannot ask during Questions on Policy or Legislation. We are all acutely aware of the dreadful suffering of the families of children with scoliosis and more so the suffering of the poor unfortunate children themselves. However, rehashing every medical emergency in the country and bringing them in here day after day and asking people to deal with individual cases is not really what the Dáil Chamber is about . We need …

I welcome the members of the Limerick Women's Shed. I thought only the men were put in sheds in Limerick but now the women are obviously doing it too.

I thank Deputy Murphy. By way of comment, I respect your enthusiasm for your subject matter but I know many dairy farmers and I do not believe I would put any of them in the wealthy elite category that you seem to put them in.

There are rich people in lots of professions.

Anyway, so be it. The Deputy is more than entitled to speak, thanks be to God. I will defend with my last breath his right to express his view-----

It might be, but I do unusual things from time to time.

That is not correct.

That is not strictly true.