Despite what has gone on here today with the national planning framework and broadband last week, the programme for Government is specific in its support for rural Ireland. However, I do not know what is going on in the Cabinet room, especially when I read reports today about the latest proposals of the Minister, Deputy Ross. I see opposite me the Ministers, Deputies Naughten, Flanagan, Humphreys and Creed, all of whom represent rural constituencies. The latest bizarre proposal is to lock up the parents of any L plate driver, a son or daughter or anybody else, or if they are driving a tractor. This includes a buachailín trying to learn to feed the cows that the Government will not pay the farmers for. What is going on? What will be next? It is proposed to criminalise ordinary decent families and force them to get into their car every day to accompany their L-plate driver. I am all for restrictions to assist in road safety. I sympathise with the relatives of those who have lost lives as a result of L-plate drivers, but this is bizarre. Someone needs to rein in the Minister, Deputy Ross, lock him into the house in Wicklow where he lives and keep him away from the rural people. He has a vendetta against rural people. I am shocked at the other Ministers.

Does the Deputy have a question on promised legislation?

The question is as follows. Where is the rural proofing? What are we trying to do? Criminalise parents and criminalise all the people of rural Ireland? We do not have Luas, buses, DART or all the other things.

All right, Deputy.

The Government cannot even get the new Luas across O'Connell Bridge. It does not know what it is doing. Ministers are in a cocoon inside in the Cabinet room.

I thank the Deputy.

I do not know what kind of water they are drinking or what medicine they are on, but this is bizarre, daft and unworkable, and an attack on rural Ireland.

Taoiseach, Minister-----

May I reply on behalf of rural Ireland?

I call the Minister for Justice and Equality on behalf of rural Ireland.

Please, come on.

I say to Deputy Mattie McGrath, all other rural Deputies and everybody that rural Ireland is being very well looked after by the current Government.

It is not.

It has a funny way of doing it.

Ciúnas.

Only platitudes for rural Ireland.

It has been levelled at the Taoiseach that he is a Dublin Taoiseach-----

I am asking where the Minister, Deputy Flanagan and his colleagues are.

Ciúnas.

-----unlike some of his predecessors. His first act on appointment as Taoiseach was to appoint a dedicated Minister for Rural and Community Development, with a budget-----

What about the post offices?

-----and ambition and energy in the person of the Minister, Deputy Ring.

The Government could not wait to get rid of post offices.

Please-----

The national development plan, which is being launched on Friday, will contain much for rural Ireland.

He looked after the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, too when he had the foreign affairs brief.

Please, Deputy Mattie McGrath.