As agreed, the report of the Business Committee shall be taken as read. Are the proposed arrangements for the week's business agreed to?

Not agreed.

I understand that a motion regarding the proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the carbon budget under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Acts 2015 to 2021 has been laid before the Dáil. Will time be made available by the Government next week to debate the motion? This is a matter of urgency. Friends of the Earth and other NGOs have been looking for us to have a chance to debate this on the floor of the Dáil. Will it be on the Order of Business for next week?

The Rural Independent Group is demanding an immediate debate on the crisis facing the pig industry today. If the Taoiseach cares to see them, members of the industry are protesting outside the gates of Leinster House. They are not known for protesting but their family lives, their incomes and their industry are on the line. The paltry €7 million offered by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, is an insult to them. They need a package of €50 million and a further €50 million that they intend to pay back. What other group in society has paid back money it got in Covid supports? It is a crisis that the Taoiseach does not seem to recognise and the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, will not recognise until he does not have any rashers for his breakfast roll.

He should eat the rasher with a poached egg.

I ask once again for the Government to allow time for a debate on the disastrous situation and war in Yemen. The Government rightly has moved heaven and earth to debate and set out a response to the disastrous situation in Ukraine but it is stubbornly resistant to discussing the war in Yemen that has claimed more than 300,000 lives and brought 14 million people to the brink of starvation. Does the Government not want this debate because it has trade relations with Saudi Arabia and because the US and the UK are arming the Saudi regime? Is that why it does not want the debate? If that is not the case, will it please allow for a debate on this crisis?

As no other Members are indicating, I ask the Taoiseach to respond.

Before the Taoiseach responds, he made a joke of my request by saying he eats poached eggs.

I did not answer-----

I do not know what he eats - that is his own business - but this is not a laughing matter. It is a serious situation facing an industry that could be wiped out if he does not act.

Deputy, you made your point. The Taoiseach to respond.

This is mockery by the Taoiseach, talking about poached eggs. He will be well poached when they get at him.

The Taoiseach to respond uninterrupted.

Or fried, even better.

I actually said he should have the rasher with a poached egg or a poached egg with the rasher.

Make fun of it, yes. Make fun of it.

It is not a laughing matter.

I was not joking; I was serious. I believe in a good rasher for breakfast. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is alive to the issue. We have already allocated funding to the pigmeat industry. Just as we did in respect of Covid-19 when we helped an awful lot of enterprises survive by investing in them, we also want to keep a viable industry, the pigmeat industry, intact and viable because in normal times it is a productive industry that does well. The Minister is engaging with the sector to see if we can do more in the context of what already has been done for the industry. It creates a lot of jobs. What is happening now is beyond its control in terms of a disruptive market situation plus the Ukraine crisis.

Are you going to wake up?

The Minister is working on that. I can confirm that we will endeavour to have a debate on that next week and I have asked the Chief Whip to follow up on that.

On having a debate on the pigmeat sector or a debate on the war in Yemen, I have to say to the Deputies that there is more Private Members' time available in this Dáil than in previous Dáileanna. There is therefore an obligation on the Deputies themselves to bring forward these issues-----

We have Private Members' time every six months.

Change the record.

-----in Private Members' time. There is Topical Issues as well. We need to balance legislation-----

You do not care about the people in Yemen. The Government does not want to embarrass the-----

-----with debates. The House is not meant to be three days every week dealing with statements and nothing else but statements. It is also a legislative assembly and we have to get that balance right.

Is the Order of Business agreed to?

It is not agreed.