Last night Sinn Féin had a successful motion aiming at reforming and resourcing child and adolescent mental health services. The Government did not oppose the motion. The Government chooses not to oppose Opposition motions as a tactic when it does not want the political fallout from having to vote against them. Our motion included a raft of solutions to improve children's access to mental health supports and to reduce waiting lists. It was also about transparency and accountability within the HSE. Can the Taoiseach guarantee that the Government will implement the motion completely as we do not want to see our children being used as a political football?

I thank the Deputy. I am not sure if it is fair to characterise it as a tactic. As a Government, we do not want to divide the House on an issue on which we should all be united precisely so that nobody tries to use children as a political football. That is why we decided not to oppose the Deputy's motion.

Will the Government support it?

Of course, the Minister will respond to that in his remarks. Many of the suggestions the Deputy's party put forward are good ones. We will try to implement them but, unfortunately, there are always constraints to these things.