Three Deputies remain and if they ask their questions in 30 seconds, I will take each of them.

Phil Ní Sheaghdha, the general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, has described the trolley situation as escalating beyond crisis. September was the worst month this year. Last year, the winter initiative was not published until winter was well under way. We know winter is coming. I ask the Tánaiste to confirm it will be published before winter.

I wish to raise the issue of transport in my constituency of Kildare North. Since schools returned Maynooth has been at a virtual standstill, with traffic worse this year than any previous year. It has been mooted that the National Transport Authority, NTA, and Transport Infrastructure Ireland will examine the feasibility of a second motorway interchange at Maynooth. I ask the Tánaiste to ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to prioritise that project and revert to me with an update.

The spectre of unmet housing needs faces us both here in the Chamber and in our constituencies. Until meaningful intervention is taken on affordable and social housing, 40% of people have to rent and that is if they can actually get a house or an apartment to rent. Rents are increasing all the time, particularly in Kildare which is a commuter county. Rent pressure zones, RPZs, were introduced to try to control rents. They were welcome as an effort to contain the problem. They were spread throughout electoral districts. However, in Kildare, Monasterevin has been moved from one area to another. I submitted several parliamentary questions about this, but the Department refuses to allow Monasterevin to be included in an RPZ. Rents are increasing in the town all the time. Athy is in a separate electoral area. There has been a refusal to add Athy to the RPZs. I appeal to the Tánaiste to include Monasterevin and Athy in the RPZs.

A consultation on the winter initiative is under way. It will be published when it is ready and the sooner the better for obvious reasons. I do not have an exact date.

I will ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to come back to Deputy Lawless on his issue.

I was the person who introduced RPZs. It is really important to apply rent pressure zones on the basis of data and not on the basis of political pressure. I do not mean that in any kind of negative way in terms of the Deputy's question. The Residential Tenancies Board provides the recommendations which are purely driven by the data on rent inflation and how rents compare with the national average. That is what determines whether an area falls within a rent pressure zone. Approximately two thirds of rental properties are now in rent pressure zones. In a town like Monasterevin, if the numbers determine it, rent pressure zone status will be triggered.