The House is getting giddy.

My question is a serious one. It is about the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017. The Taoiseach will know that hundreds of young people are in some form of mental health distress and are on waiting lists to see a psychiatrist. Some 2,500 young people are waiting for mental health services. Some 317 have been on waiting lists for more than a year. Can the Taoiseach imagine being on a waiting list for more than a year? There are no child and adolescent mental health services available in the north Louth area. People under pressure in the Ladywell facility are doing exceptional work but the facility is not fit for purpose. Will the Taoiseach commit to the provision of fully staffed and adequately funded mental health services? Will he provide 24-7 mental health services? Will he update the Dáil on the status of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill?

The Bill is on Committee Stage.

I will return to the Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017. We have had discussions in this House, and I have had discussions with my former Department, in respect of section 39 organisations. Staff in those section 39 organisations, who took cuts mirroring those in the FEMPI legislation, have a legitimate expectation of pay restoration at the same rate and at the same time as the rest of the public service. I understand that there are difficulties in ring-fencing money to do that, although there has been an additional general allocation to section 39 organisations. As a matter of public policy, will the Taoiseach or the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform make a declaration that, where workers in section 39 organisations suffered reductions mirroring those in the FEMPI legislation, their pay will be restored at the same time and at the same rate as all other public sector workers?

There has not been only a minor allocation in funding to these organisations. Over the past number of years, the total amount of additional funding which has been made available is more than €1 billion. It is nearly €1.2 billion.

So the organisations should pay the increases then.

Section 39 organisations responded to the changes in our economy in different ways. Some did cut wages-----

The Minister should make a declaration.

-----others cut numbers and some did not make any changes at all. Of course as the former Minister, Deputy Howlin, well knows, the reason I cannot make a declaration is that I am not the employer of these individuals. We provide funding to the companies or organisations which employ them.

As a matter of justice, would the Minister not make a statement?

The reason I cannot make such a declaration is the same reason that Deputy Howlin set up a forum on the community employment sector, as opposed to making any statement in respect of it.

On a point of order, I never heard the Taoiseach's response to my question.

These are questions on promised legislation. I have answered the question.

The Deputy said that he did not hear the response.

The Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017 is on Committee Stage.

I thank the Taoiseach.