I am very happy to support the call for statements on child protection. They should take place this week. It is a serious issue. However, we have asked for some time for the Government to allow for a discussion and questions to the Minister on the use of Shannon by the US military and the use of Irish airspace for the transport of weapons from the US to Israel to kill children in Gaza and Lebanon, as Israel has been doing in Gaza for a year and is doing in Lebanon now, and also on the fact that Israel is now using Irish troops and other peacekeeping troops as human shields, deliberately trying to bring attacks on Irish troops. We need a serious discussion about that. It is shameful that the Taoiseach is going to the US essentially to celebrate the Biden presidency when it is US weapons that have killed those children in Gaza, are killing children in Lebanon and are being fired in Lebanon to try to draw fire onto Irish troops, endangering their lives. The Taoiseach and other members of the Government should be here explaining why we are still enabling the US military which is doing that, or why weapons go through Irish airspace to commit those crimes.

Of course we in the Rural Independents agree with the request for time to debate offences against children and the whole issue in this regard, but there are many issues that we want to discuss here that the Government will not discuss. The Chief Whip could have had an incorporeal meeting of the Business Committee before sabotaging our business here today. She did not even move the Order of Business until the Ceann Comhairle reminded her of the business of the Government. That is the fact of it. Of course we want the debate but we want Tusla to be included in it and the pernicious and vicious way it is treating families and the missing children from State care. Will they be included at all? Is this all a political game to attack Sinn Féin? That is what it seems to be. There are children missing from State care, and Tusla is out of order and behaving illegally up and down the country daily, terrorising mothers and parents. It is shameful. I want that included in the debate as well.

I fully support the call for a debate on the situation in Lebanon and Gaza. That is vital. Also, we should ask the Government to withdraw the Planning and Development Bill. Six-hundred and twenty seven amendments have come back from the Seanad but it is proposed to have only three hours of debate tomorrow. It is ridiculous to allow such a big Bill to go through in that way. If the Government is looking for time for the motion being talked about, the Planning and Development Bill could be removed from the schedule. That would provide the time for the other debates as well.

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.