I am saying that it is taking up space. There is nothing wrong with where it is at present. All the Government has to do is ask the EU if we can extend the area of the port and keep what we have, which cost €11 million. The €40 million the Government is spending is to replace that which is in the port area and taking up space.

It is clear the Minister does not understand.

It is a master plan that requires €200 million.

Where is the money? Where is the investment?

I would have thought five years was enough time.

I would like to read into the record an article by Ciaran Fitzgerald that was published yesterday in the Agriland.ie journal: Since 2016 with the UK Brexit vote, Irish agriculture and the Irish economy, have faced a huge challenge of 'economic iceberg' proportions in terms of regional and rural economic impact from the UK’s exit from the single market. A self-imposed ideologically driven decision to suppress Irish agri output, despite this resulting in an increase in global emissions, looks like providing a second …

I am.

It may be, but this article defines where we are in relation to climate change.

I do, absolutely. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I may now go over a little.

I will go back to the article: So, while the looming carbon budget could totally undermine Irish agriculture sector output in the name of an environmental ideology that views livestock production as equivalent to oil exploration, there is a row in the agri dressing room about sucklers versus dairy beef. A row equivalent to a fight over the deckchairs on the titanic, with the iceberg visible in plain sight in my view. [That of the journalist.] Ireland’s economy and society is facing a tough post Covid-19, mid-Brexit…

I thank the Deputy.

Slippage?

Now the Deputy is blaming the EU.

Hear, hear.

I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this topic for discussion. The issue of hospital waiting lists has, in many cases, been exacerbated by the impact of the Government's response to the Covid pandemic. I have highlighted many times the scandal of curtailing services such as cancer screening as part of the Covid response. I hope big lessons have been learned from those decisions. We also need to remember hospital waiting lists have been a long-standing, unresolved issue and a major problem long before Covid enter…

The programme for Government states that delivery of mental healthcare will be through the Sharing the Vision roadmap. It appears this roadmap has bypassed Wexford. We have no full child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, team in Arden House and we have no paediatric dietician, even though I pointed out on a number of occasions in the House that there is an increase in anorexia patients in County Wexford. One can imagine the disgust of the people of Wexford when the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Butler, …

After three years.

And the fact that the-----

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