To put Senator Ned O'Sullivan's mind at ease, priests and clergymen pay tax and VAT on their income, like everybody else.

I second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by my colleague, Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee, that the Leader allow the Corporate Manslaughter (No. 2) Bill 2016 to be printed.

I join other colleagues in asking that the Minister for Health come to the House to clarify the position on the report in The Sunday Business Post last Sunday concerning the nine emergency departments that are due to be closed. We are told there is no substance to this report, but I am reminded of a report a couple of years ago where it was stated in a Sunday newspaper that the Department of Defence was proposing to close a number of Army barracks around the country. We were told there was no substance to it, but a number of months later the Minister for Defence sanctioned the closure of Army barracks, including Dún Uí Néill barracks in Cavan town.