There are just four remaining Deputies. If they can ask their questions in 30 seconds, we will accommodate everyone and hear a reply.

In the programme for Government a commitment is given to support third level students, particularly through the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grant. I remind the Minister of an anomaly in the assessment of distances for the adjacent and non-adjacent grant. SUSI uses Google Maps in this assessment, which in many cases will direct students to roads that are secondary or tertiary and in many cases barely passable. I ask that we change the assessment tool to the AA route planner, as is used for assessing distances for our own travel arrangements as Deputies? If it is good enough for us, it should be good enough for SUSI to use in assessing the adjacent and non-adjacent rates. This is very significant, because trying to bring somebody by the shortest route from their home will often bring them on roads that are impassable and unsafe.

Statistics have shown us that Irish women are among the least likely in Europe to report crimes of domestic violence and abuse. We have to do more to support and enable these victims. Seven months have passed since the Domestic Violence Act 2018, introduced on 1 February 2017, passed all Stages of the Oireachtas. This is groundbreaking legislation. It moves to a more victim-centred approach and is very important legislation. Not a single piece of this Act has been commenced. Will the Minister please tell us when we can expect this legislation to be commenced?

The programme for Government makes a clear commitment to reduce the waiting times for surgery in hospitals. A lady from my constituency contacted me yesterday. She has a blocked artery in her leg which was diagnosed over a year ago, and she is scheduled for surgery in University Hospital Galway. Her appointment was cancelled and has been cancelled five times since. The next time it was due was next Tuesday. In the beginning, when she was diagnosed with the problem, the consultant prescribed the use of what is called an artery assist machine. She was told this would be short-term, but now her appointment has been cancelled so often that it has cost her €3,000 over the year. She is a medical card holder, but the HSE refuses to fund it. It is a continuing situation in our health service that people feel they are pushed to the back all the time and the cost is always put on the individual. It has to stop. The resources must be put in place to ensure that surgeries happen in the required timeframe.

More than 12 months ago, in the Minister's backyard of Charleville, the Taoiseach committed to the development of the M20 motorway from Cork to Limerick. Since then, major Government announcements have committed to it. However, we cannot seem to get a timeframe from the Government. What concerns me is that only a few months ago, metro north plans to build a subway from north Dublin to south Dublin were released. Within a few months, the Government was able to amend the design with the stroke of a pen, at an extra cost to the taxpayer of €100 million. Why is it that we cannot get a material commitment on when the motorway from Cork to Limerick is going to be started and its date of completion? We should be able to get some idea, because plans are already in the Department.

I will take the first question from Deputy Brassil. Deputies will find that when people come to me with suggestions and common-sense and practical solutions to issues, I am all ears. I thank the Deputy for raising that issue. It is one that came up in my own county when we were looking at closest distances and the nearest school rule. Roads that were virtually impassable for buses were earmarked as routes. If there are practical solutions concerning distances and the adjacent and non-adjacent rule, I am certainly interested in bringing them into the debate with my officials. I will raise it with them very shortly.