There are three outstanding Deputies who have asked questions. We will take 30-second questions from them.

The unions that represent tens of thousands of workers in the voluntary and community sector have announced that they will be lodging a pay claim for a 3% rise. These are workers who provide essential services in our communities. They care for older people, people with disabilities and people with addiction. They also work in homeless clubs, homeless services and homework clubs and I could go on. They do this work on the cheap from the point of view of the State. Many of them are precariously employed with no pension cover or sick pay and they have suffered from pay cuts since 2008. The least they deserve is a 3% pay rise. Will the Taoiseach agree to meet their unions and will the Government agree to their claim?

Epilepsy is a neurological condition that is affecting nearly 40,000 people across the country and locals have been raising concerns with me about difficulties that people are experiencing that are separate from the medical condition. They are excluded from driving for many years while they are suffering from epilepsy. That is a huge difficulty for people who want to get to work, go about their normal lives and so on. While there is recognition by the State of the medical condition and support in the form of the long-term illness scheme, there is not a recognition of this exclusion from travel. Can the State provide free travel access for people while they are excluded from driving?

The Taoiseach will have seen the recent report from the Tallaght Drug and Alcohol Task Force demonstrating the work that it has been done with community groups and it is calling for additional funding. I am a member of a similar task force in Limerick and the concerns of this group are similar, namely it does not have the funding to carry out its important work. The programme for Government commits to reviewing these task forces. I appeal to the Taoiseach to carry out that review and to make sure the task forces go back to being community-led and not HSE-led because that arrangement is destroying the functioning of task forces and is not making them effective like they can be.

I answered Deputy Paul Murphy's question yesterday. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, is meeting the unions and there is an established industrial relations process involving those groups which has been under way since 2018 as a result of a resolution of some of the larger organisations.

Deputy Aindrias Moynihan was prophetic in his comments last week about the local property tax application process and Revenue subsequently followed suit on his suggestion. He raises a good point about epilepsy and I will pursue that with the relevant Ministers. The Deputy is saying that people who are debarred from driving as a result of their condition could have access to free travel. It is outside of the scope of the scheme but it is a fair point.

On Deputy Quinlivan's question, about €6 million extra was allocated this year for the drugs and alcohol strategy. I have made the point that we need to review the overall provision of supports for area partnerships across the country. I hear what the Deputy is saying about his area.

To come back to the point raised by the Chief Whip, when it comes to Leader's Questions and Questions on Promised Legislation, the House has ordered a certain amount of time to be made available for these important pieces of business. Whether asking or answering the questions-----

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The point is that the time limits are often not being respected. I would suggest that the parties seek to revisit this through the methodologies available to them. Members do not respect the Chair because the Chair repeatedly asks them to adhere to the limits but I ask them to respect each other, adhere to the time and not take time from their colleagues. More importantly, I ask Members to respect the viewing public who are looking in at the proceedings of this House and who are far from impressed when they see some of what goes on here.