I would like to follow up on the good and constructive debate we had last week on bin charges. The Minister came to the House and we all found it helpful. However, he said he would attend meetings this week and that he would come back to us. This issue is not about Galway. My colleague, Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh, mentioned Barna Waste. Dublin City Council has also called on the Minister to provide further clarification. Will the Leader follow up on the matter because we need feedback quickly and urgently?

Before I got this job, luckily enough, I was a SIPTU trade union official and worked on its Home Helps Time to Care campaign. The people with whom I worked, who suffered savage cuts implemented by both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil and who lost clients because of them, have absolutely no time for public representatives pleading to be friends with them. I recall the savage cuts. More than 500,000 hours were cut between both parties, yet Members have stood up today pretending to be friends to home helps. We fought for, and eventually secured, decent contracts for them and it was no thanks to Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael.