There are more than a dozen Deputies waiting, but three have been here since before my arrival, namely, Deputies Kerrane, Niamh Smyth and Nolan. If the House is amenable, I will hear 30-second questions from each of the three Deputies. That is agreed.

It will be seven weeks tomorrow until 1 January 2021 when, according to current legislation, the pension age is due to increase to 67 years. Promised legislation to defer the measure is nowhere to be seen. The membership of the pensions commission was established last week and as the Tánaiste is aware, issues have been raised by a number of organisations, particularly those which represent older people and women. When will legislation be introduced to defer the increase in the pension age to 67 years?

I raise the important matter of roads funding, which the Tánaiste touched on earlier. Counties Cavan and Monaghan are completely dependent on the rural road network as there is no public transport or railway line. As I have said many times, we need to be imaginative and creative and consider reopening the local rail line. There is a very sad article in The Anglo Celt this week by Sean McMahon about an elderly lady, Kitty Clarke, who is 74 years of age. A picture speaks a thousand words, as they say, and the article features a photograph of the deplorable state of Curkish Lane in Bailieborough, which is also a public road. I am acutely aware of the problems faced by Cavan and Monaghan county councils in relation to roads funding. I ask the Tánaiste to ensure, in his deliberations at Cabinet with the Minister for Transport, that a positive bias is shown towards counties such as Cavan and Monaghan, which are totally dependent on the rural network, in the provision of roads funding for local authorities.

Page 47 of the programme for Government states that the expansion of primary and community care is at the heart of the Sláintecare programme. After spending a significant period trying to get an update on a proposal to have a primary care centre in Birr, I finally got an answer yesterday and was informed that the proposed site for a primary care centre was rejected. This contradicts the Government's approach to this whole issue and the Sláintecare report. I ask the Government, specifically the Minister for Health, to urgently intervene in this matter. The people of Birr and the surrounding areas badly need a primary healthcare centre. This issue has been ongoing for years and it needs to be brought to a conclusion.

On the issue of the pension age, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, will bring legislation through the Houses before Christmas to retain the State pension age at 66 years. That legislation will be done before Christmas, so nobody need be concerned that the commitment will not be honoured because it will be.

Deputy Smyth raised the issue of road funding for counties Cavan and Monaghan. Transport Infrastructure Ireland funding is usually released in December and regional and local road funding will be released in January or February by the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan. The Deputy makes a good point, one that needs to be recognised, that Cavan and Monaghan are very rural counties and have no rail network. That needs to be taken into account in terms of the funding that is allocated to those counties.

I am afraid I do not have any information on Deputy Nolan's question about the primary care centre in Birr but I will check it out. I agree that the town certainly needs a new primary care centre sooner rather than later.