The House has agreed that for the duration of the Covid-19 emergency only, the rapporteur's report of the Business Committee will be taken as read. Arising from it, there are just two proposals to be considered. Is the proposal for dealing with Wednesday's business agreed to?

I will talk about the changes to Questions on Promised Legislation. I wrote to the Ceann Comhairle and I appreciated his reply explaining the changes are part of a pilot scheme that will go on until the end of the year when it will be discussed again. Our representatives on the Dáil reform committee and the Business Committee have opposed the changes from the beginning. It is an unfair system. We had dealt with the queuing and there was no issue. We had used a card system, which we thought was fair. The system rewarded a Deputy who was interested in getting up in the morning, going out and collecting his or her card early, and getting the opportunity to raise a question. The new system will reward the Government. It already has plenty of speaking slots and its representatives are failing to turn up for many of their allotted speaking times. We need to go back to the system that was there because it was fair to everybody. It was open to everybody to queue, submit a question and raise issues of considerable concern.

Thank you, Deputy.

I need to raise the issue of the rural regeneration fund today because there are no funds coming to west Cork again.

Sorry, Deputy.

The Taoiseach is going to get away-----

We cannot get into that matter.

I know that.

Please do not then.

I am opposing the changes here today. I would appreciate it if other Deputies would do the same.

I point out that, after tortuous consideration, this proposal is being run on a trial basis until the end of term to see how it works.

Today is 21 April and the Dáil has sat for two full days in the month of April. That is outrageous. The Dáil is sitting two days a week now which means that for the whole of 2021, we have only two days a week to represent our constituents. In the middle of an economic, health and societal crisis, we have a part-time Dáil. That is no longer good enough. It is time that the Dáil returned to sitting three days a week so that we can fully hold the Taoiseach and Ministers to account and bring Private Members' Bills to the floor of the House.

That is not a matter for the Taoiseach. The Business Committee has agreed that we will move back to a three-day week. Considerable discussion has taken place on that. Those three-day sittings will be taking place as soon as is feasible.

I will comment on the same issue as Deputy Tóibín. The Deputy is a member of the Regional Independent Group. The Whip of that group is Deputy Naughten, a very able Whip. I have seen some political postings in recent days and I wish to make it clear that a presentation, which made it clear that the Dáil would return to a three-day week, was made to all Deputies last week. That is being worked on. It is a logistical challenge. I must be fair and say that was presented to all Deputies. It must be known to Deputy Tóibín's group. The call for the return of a full Dáil has been worked on by all groups and parties. The return will happen soon. I must be fair. It is fair enough when the Opposition challenges the Government but when we are working collegially to get this place back to a fair sitting, we must also be fair. That has been happening and we will return to a full Dáil soon, thanks to all of our efforts.

Is the proposal for dealing with Thursday's business agreed? Agreed.

We move now to our new system of Questions on Promised Legislation. There is a minute for everyone. We will begin with the Sinn Féin leader.