Last Thursday, Dr. Geoffrey Shannon's report into sexual abuse within St. John Ambulance was published. It makes for bleak reading. St. John Ambulance put the reputation of its organisation ahead of vulnerable young children. The report would probably not have been carried out and published if it were not for survivors such as Mick Finnegan and the many other survivors. The board should sit down with an independent administrator taking charge. There are serious questions also for Tusla and the Minister to answer. I ask for the Minister to come into the House to make a statement on the matter and to answer questions on the Shannon report.

Yesterday, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, issued a final warning on climate change with some deeply concerning findings including the fact that temperatures have been rising faster in the last 50 years than for the previous two millenniums. The science is very clear. There is an urgent need to decarbonise our economy and society. I ask that we would have a debate on this new and urgent report as a matter of priority in the coming weeks.

For a number of weeks I have been asking at the Business Committee for a debate on the sheep sector. In many areas of agriculture, including sheep, pigs and now even the calves, there is a huge pressure on farmers with the cost of inputs for materials such as fertiliser. There is a constant berating and demonising of our farming community. I remind the House that farming families have looked after this country very well through the decades since the inception of the State. There is a constant demonisation, downgrading and blackguarding by reports that identify farmers as being not good people to look after the environment, which is totally untrue. We need a debate in this House on those issues. We need to respect the farmers and the farm families of Ireland and what they produce.

I thank Deputies for their contributions. We have no objection on this side of the House to having a debate on the St. John Ambulance report. I am very conscious of the distress that the report's contents must have caused the victims and the survivors. It was published only last Thursday, so the appropriate first step is for Tusla to come into the committee. I understand that this is scheduled. Perhaps we could then discuss it in the Chamber thereafter. The first step is for Tusla to come into the committee. That is the place to have a discussion with them about it.

Again, I am happy to have further debate on climate change and the most recent report. That should be scheduled by the Business Committee.

I understand that time is set aside next week for discussion on the sheep sector.

Are the proposed arrangements for this week's business agreed? Agreed. Leanfaimid ar aghaidh anois. I thank Members for their co-operation. We are doing well.