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minority allows it. It involves refusing to respect basic rules and making extreme statements and false assertions, as we have just had. Since Dáil Éireann first met, its rules have changed hundreds of times. Many times these rules have been changed without agreement between all parties. We have … regularly had votes on changes to parliamentary procedure. The concept of an Opposition veto is found nowhere in the democratic world

city divisions. In a rural county like mine, some Garda fleet vehicles are ten or 12 years old. I have put down parliamentary questions to ascertain their service records and some of those vehicles have been off the road for six or seven weeks of the previous year … will mention the programme for Government because it proposes to reintroduce electronic tagging. This was a suggestion I made in my own party. It is a no-brainer. The legislation for that passed in 2009. If our prison system cannot accommodate prisoners, at the very least, they should

homelessness because of that scheme. This scheme is working very well. The parliamentary questions that the Minister signed off on today with respect to the scheme, which came from Deputies of all parties, Government and Opposition, show this. Unfortunately, the scheme has always had its opponents, both … last year, specifically for the tenant in situ scheme, local authorities will run out of funding before the year-end. If the Minister allows the specific restrictions that we have listed in our motion to make their way into the circular that he will sign, fewer homes will

ended in its current guise. The motion should only be passed, therefore, if the Sinn Féin amendment is passed because we cannot allow the current situation to continue. At the beginning, it has to be recognised that this scheme was brought forward as an emergency measure to support … impact of this scheme on the rental sector. Last week, the Minister, Deputy Foley, confirmed to me in a reply to a parliamentary question that she had not sought any briefings, reports or analysis on the impact of the ARP on the rental sector and, apparently, is relying