I totally agree with Deputy McDonald on that point. I want to raise another issue on the Order of Business, and that is a motion we are being asked to pass without debate on the comprehensive agreement in the field of air transport. This deal is aimed at growing a market in transnational flights and climate is mentioned once in the briefing document. At a time when emissions are rising and we are facing the biggest climate catastrophe ever, we are being asked to pass without debate a deal which would without doubt increase emissions both nationally and globally. I think it is not just insane but utterly bizarre that this is being put in front of us in the name of the Green Party and we are being asked to pass it without debate. I am not going to do that. I am a Member of the Oireachtas and we have to be accountable to the people who elect us. It is a disgrace that we are being asked to do this.

I have written to the Business Committee about an issue I raised last week on behalf of the Rural Independent Group. We need a calm and reasoned debate on the influx of immigration into our country. I am not talking about refugees fleeing war. I am talking about the staggering figures that are there from places like Algeria. Fewer than 100 people from that country applied in 2021 and a staggering 1,318 have applied in the first ten months of this year. We need to look at this. We are not living in an echo chamber in here. The whole country is talking about this and is worried about it. We need to have a proper, reasonable, fair and respectful debate about it. We need it. Christmas is coming, as we know, and we need this debate, not to let it fester and drag on.

No room at the inn, is there not, Deputy McGrath?

It needs to be held very soon and to be respectful, as I said, not with people shouting anybody else down. Everybody is entitled to have their say in this Chamber, thanks to the Ceann Comhairle and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.