A national hospital that is six years late and €1.4 billion over budget; an opaque HSE coming down with management that can swallow up billions of euro but cannot make a decision; €300 million spent on Dublin metro projects without any construction; dozens of flood defences stuck in a banjaxed planning and court system; not one approval for a wind farm in 12 months and just seven offshore wind turbines built in 20 years; more than 100 electric buses sitting for 18 months due to a lack of charging points; 500 modular homes that were meant to be built in October 2022 yet to be delivered; €22 million worth of dodgy ventilators bought by the HSE being stored at a cost of €75 million; spending €18 million fighting €14 billion of Apple tax due to Ireland; and €10 million of HSE rent overpayments because someone mismeasured the rooms. No one is ever held responsible or held to account. When it comes to administration, is this one of the most wasteful Governments in the history of this State?

This is an opportunity to raise one question on one matter, not a litany.

Wastefulness is the question.

A waste of time.

Deputy Tóibín must be in his element because nobody likes to talk and spend all day talking about challenges and problems more than himself. He has even exceeded his own capacity to do that in that one-minute contribution. This is a Government that is trying to make progress everyday on infrastructure and public services.

A long list I suppose.

We acknowledge there are challenges regarding planning and making things happen quickly because we are impatient as a Government for progress and impatient to make sure we can see how we are managing the economy translating into good public services and improved public infrastructure. One of the challenges around that has been our planning system. What the Government has done, following great work from the previous attorney general Paul Gallagher who made this his signature Act, is bring forward the third largest Bill ever in the history of this State, namely the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2023, which will go through the Oireachtas over the course of this winter to try to address some of those challenges. I look forward, but not with much optimism, to a positive contribution from the Deputy himself to make sure this Bill goes forward-----

Billions of euro of waste.

-----because we need to see cross-party support across the House to ensure this becomes law.