I, too, would like to welcome Cara and congratulate her on her fantastic achievement. Doing leaving certificate maths at 12 years of age is incredible. She brought one ray of light into the Chamber today. It is great to have her here.

On the fire service, it is not a Dublin versus outside of Dublin issue.

It is.

Ah stop, Mattie. You come in and-----

You have the services-----

Please let the Minister answer.

You-----

Are you serious about this matter or not?

I am.

Do you want to hear what I am going to say? We are engaged. It is a very serious matter. I have already explained to the Deputies who wanted to listen and did not want to engage in stunts here today that we have gone a long way down the road in the retained fire service review, which has been welcomed by SIPTU. The last piece is pay. I am committed to resolving that. Contacts are being made. There is a way out of this, through the apparatus of the State, namely, the WRC. I ask SIPTU and other representatives to re-engage with that process because there is a way forward for resolution.

Tuesday.

Today is Thursday. In between Thursday and next Tuesday are Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. We have time to do this.

Faraor, tá orm an t-ionad lae atá fós dúnta i gcroílár na Gaeltachta sa Cheathrú Rua a ardú arís. Tá sé ardaithe go mion minic agam ach, faraor, níl aon rud athraithe ach amháin go bhfuil na critéir atá leagtha síos ag Feidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte i bhfad níos deacra anois. Tá sí ag rá nach bhfuil aon éileamh ann.

Unfortunately, I have to once again talk about the closed day centre in Carraroe. It remains closed, three years on from the onset of Covid. I have almost a library of responses. They change by the week. First of all, the HSE could not open it. Then it needed a new place. Then it said there are new criteria and people had to be able to have their own transport and take their own medication. Then it said there was no demand and the bus was broken. An essential service remains closed three years later.