Thank you. We move to the technical group convened by Deputy Michael Collins.

That concludes the contributions on the nomination of Taoiseach.

I must inform Members that it has been agreed with the Whips and the conveners that we will now have contributions from parties and proposed technical groups with an agreed allocation of time for each party and group. I take the opportunity to say to Members that time is time. If you are sharing time and you go over your time, you will eat into your colleagues' time. That is how we propose to carry on in the Thirty-fourth Dáil. I first call on An Taoiseach.

Thank you, so it is An Tánaiste.

It is a 15-minute speech.

I apologise to the Regional Group. There was a problem with the rotation; that group should have been first. The Regional Group, convened by Deputy Lowry, has speakers Deputies Harkin and Toole, who have six minutes.

We now move to the technical group convened by Deputy Michael Collins. It has six minutes shared between Deputies Richard O'Donoghue, Michael Healy-Rae, O'Flynn, Gogarty and Danny Healy-Rae.

I call Deputy Paul Gogarty.

We now move to the topic of the adjournment of the Dáil. The House must now decide when it will next sit. Accordingly, I call the Government Chief Whip, Deputy Naughton, to make a proposal on the adjournment of the House.

Is that agreed?

I propose to take one minute from each Deputy who raises their hand.

I also thank all the staff who have been helpful in the short time I have been here. I may never be back, but I have enjoyed it. I also want to pay respects to the family of Brandon Roche in Wexford. His body was recovered from Wexford Harbour yesterday, after a ten-day search. He will be buried tomorrow. This is almost the 70th time I have stood here expressing concerns about mental health in Wexford. Brandon's body has been recovered less than two weeks after my last representation. The figures I have come from r…

That is 475 individuals. The Ceann Comhairle will have to indulge me because this is a life-or-death issue. It is 475 children with nowhere to go. GPs and their families are at a loss as to what to do. I have mentioned this 70 times. Two weeks ago, the Minister said 24-7 services were available through the accident and emergency unit. These are referrals from the accident and emergency unit, but they are not being seen. Two thirds of children are not being seen.

We can send every voluntary organisation to search for a body for ten days – from the RNLI, to Slaney Search and Rescue and all of the rescue services, but we cannot do prevention. We cannot see the children to assist the families when that is needed.

This is a failing of the Government - of the Minister, the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach, and the Minister of State sitting behind the Tánaiste.

The closing date is tomorrow.

This is my forty-ninth speech on carers. While I welcome that Sinn Féin has a brought a motion, I am disappointed that it did not come on board as an Opposition party much earlier to look for the abolition of the carer’s means test. While it always maintains there should be a more streamlined approach and a little incremental increase in that, it did not look for abolition. My colleague Sean Canney and I, and our other colleagues in the Regional Group, brought forward two motions for abolition. They were two motion…

Yesterday, I had a visit from a lady who had been diagnosed with cancer. She was particularly stressed because, having applied for and received a medical card, she then had to apply for the fuel allowance, an application that has been turned down. Today, that lady phoned me to say that she has received a secondary cancer diagnosis. She is particularly stressed. Not being able to heat her home is a big issue. If cancer patients are eligible to receive a medical card, they should be automatically entitled to the fuel…

The Government has led to it.

I note the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is behind the Tánaiste. Slaney Search and Rescue is a voluntary organisation, based in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, that was founded in 1995. It provides water cover for many local events but, unfortunately, most of those are body recovery of persons from the water. This is recovery to distraught families who have tragically lost a dearly loved family member. It receives no funding of any description. It has no premises. Its resources, from the lovely people who give the…