I have gone through the chapter on commitments in respect of health but, although year after year and month after month the Taoiseach assured me they would all be implemented, the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, came along and said we were not implementing universal health insurance at all and, what is more, it will never happen.

What about all the reports that Deputy Martin commissioned?

Teachers in schools hate the Croke Park hours. They call it detention for teachers, as they have to stay in school for an extra couple of hours.

Please, Deputy. This is about promised legislation.

I do not think they realise there is a paragraph in the programme for Government that states that teachers do not have to do this at all. Instead, the Government will allow schools to set their own staffing needs, automate routine processes and adapt work practices to local staff and customer needs. When is that going to be implemented?

After eight minutes, thank you.

It is after five years.

There are other Deputies in the Chamber. The Deputy spent eight minutes asking about promised legislation.

I referred yesterday to comments made in the United States that are not acceptable to me or to people in this country. Free speech is one thing, but the comments made are unacceptable.

The heads of the Red Cross (amendment) Bill were cleared on 24 November. That Bill will be available early in the new year. The public health tobacco (retail licensing of tobacco products) Bill is due next year as well. Yesterday, we published the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill. In respect of schools and so forth, the Minister has outlined the opportunities for schools through the summer works scheme and the short courses they can put in place.

Will the Taoiseach keep them in for the summer?

Deputy Martin referred to words of fiction. I recall some of his words: "My own view is that some stories have emerged that shouldn't happen. The idea of there not being enough trolleys when you go into a hospital - that should never happen with the level of investment that is going in now. Using the ambulances and stretchers in the car park, in my view that's not acceptable. With the level of money going in it should be possible to organise yourself to avoid that happening." Back in 2004 the Deputy was very vociferous-----

The Taoiseach is going backwards.

We want to go forward.

-----about the fact that lack of investment created all kinds of difficulties. However, he was the person in charge who would not accept any responsibility for what he was supposed to be doing.