That clearly indicates a severe lack of urgency on the part of the Government in tackling the social housing crisis.

In respect of the health reform Bill, the Minister read out a litany of financial allocations to address problematic areas in the health service. People want actual improvements in the quality of the service.

We cannot discuss the health service here, as the Deputy knows.

Will the health reform Bill address, for example, the inadequacies in the child and mental health service, which is completely ineffective because it is depleted of staff? In fact, it is not depleted because it never had the staff it required in the first instance to provide the service it was set up to provide.

I always marvel at the fact that there is criticism of a Minister giving details of financial allocations-----

There is no money to back them up.

-----then there is a query about the depletion in staff because the two things are directly connected. The allocation of resources allows us to recruit staff.

The staff are not being recruited. That is the problem.