Micheál Martin

Sinn Féin had members on it. I cannot believe in one sense that the Deputy is back again at this-----

The thing that should unite us all is the safety of patients and the people who go through our hospitals.

Anybody who knows anything about emergency care knows the first thing to get right is the first response. We have dramatically transformed the quality of first responses in this country over the past 20-odd years. That is the first point.

Second, the quality of healthcare is key to any patient.

What is very important is that the right care is made available at the right time for the patient to guarantee the best outcome.

The Deputy wants to go back to worst outcomes and an era when we had very deficient medicine.

I would need the full background details. The ratio could be high in some classes but not in the entirety of the school in terms of how it organises its numbers. The Deputy indicated the numbers are declining in both schools. A question arises as to whether that is a permanent feature of the area. There are different approaches one can make to the Department in respect of whether it is possible to…

I will engage with the Minister for housing on the specifics. Is this a series of houses?

I will talk to the Minister.

Again, I do not have the specifics or the background. Has the school applied? Is it in the process? It has applied.

That does not make sense. It is either in the system or it is not.

Is it at stage 1, stage 2 or stage 3?

If the Deputy gives me the details, we may be able to progress the matter with the Minister. Has it been sanctioned?

I think the Deputy probably knows.

As the Deputy will know, this is a major project. The plan is to build a 16-classroom primary school on a very challenging brownfield site with modern multistorey facilities spanning Dominick Street, Dominick Place and Granby Row. Ongoing issues recently led to a temporary pause on construction. The contractor was formally notified on 23 May under the contract's suspension of works provision. This…

It is an area of archaeological interest that involves a protected structure owned and occupied by Youth Work Ireland. A number of issues have arisen. These include issues with services on the site and electrical lines and services related to the adjacent Luas line, which had not been apparent until excavation began. There are issues with the foundations of an adjoining protected building, which n…

Again, I will consult the Minister for Education and Youth. Progress has been made on the site. I obviously do not know the up-to-date position the Department has communicated to the school board but I will pursue it with the Minister.

First of all, I am not shamefaced.

I am not. That is all I will say for now.

The Deputy said a few things that are wildly inaccurate and wrong. She deliberately conflated trade with Israel with trade with the occupied territories, as did an earlier speaker. We need to be clear on what we are talking about. The occupied territories Bill is about the occupied territories.

You are not clear.

No sort of-----

I do not need----

Standard practice is not to afford members of Government the courtesy of being allowed to respond.

I make no apologies for challenging the false assertions that have repeatedly been made in this house by those on the far left who are consistently trying to create-----