In respect of the health information Bill, is the Minister really aware of the crisis in the disability services and the mental health services? I listened to the Minister’s comments earlier. There have been major cuts in day services for people with intellectual disabilities and cuts in respite places, particularly in July and August. Will the Minister give me the information and ensure that the services for people with intellectual and physical disabilities are not cut for July and August?

Several psychiatric patients, who are at risk, are regularly on the streets of our city. They need beds. We need between 300 and 400 beds yet the Minister told us this morning that everything was hunky dory and gave out figures. There is a crisis in the front-line services and the Government needs to wake up to that reality and do something. Ministers should not come in here and talk about resources when over the next six months the Government will throw money in tax cuts at the wealthier sections of society but will not provide simple things like residential respite services and services for people with mental illness.

The Deputy is aware of the work and everything that is being achieved in this area. Any reasonable observer of what I said earlier could not conclude that I said, or accuse me of saying, everything is hunky dory.

Almost.

It is completely unfair of Deputy Finian McGrath to suggest that is what I said. I acknowledge the gaps.

Gaps.

I acknowledge the work that needs to be done but I demonstrated to him, as he should know, that far from engaging in the empty rhetoric that comes from him and over there-----

The Minister should listen and stop talking down the clock.

This Government is delivering on these issues because government is for delivery and sometimes, unfortunately, opposition is for empty rhetoric.

Delivery.

We are doing the job we are here to do.

On a point of order-----

The Deputy is like some of his Independent colleagues.

The Deputy is talking down the clock.

The Minister knows that a cross-party meeting on disability was held last Wednesday. The Government has been in power for four years and should wake up and get on with the job.

That is not a point of order.

Deputy McGrath was in government and left it because he did not have the willpower to stay.

Man overboard.