I hope this time we will not be talking about rugby. Can we talk about the issues?

The Leader should tell him to bring his umbrella.

I will also put a time limit on the Minister's speech this time. There will be no ambiguity in that regard.

Senator Paul Coghlan raised the important issue of obstetric services at Kerry General Hospital in Tralee. He highlighted the issue of risk management, for which I commend him, but I would like to pick up on one reference he made to the hospital. Clinics are being held. I understand the issue is one of shared theatre space, but I might be wrong in that regard. There is not an exclusive theatre to deal with the particular obstetric issue to which he referred. I will, however, be happy to ask the office of the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, to deal with the Senator on the issue raised by him.

As Leader of the House, I will not in any way prevent Senator Keith Swanick from bringing forward the issue of the divestment of shares in the tobacco industry. We all subscribe to a tobacco-free Ireland. I commend the Senator for the work he has been doing in promulgating an alternative to the smoking of cigarettes. We can talk about setting aside time at the appropriate time.

Senator Michael McDowell referred to the bedsit regulations introduced in 2013. I know that the former Tánaiste, Deputy Joan Burton, asked for them to be reviewed in 2014. Mr. Bob Jordan who is now an adviser to the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, made the point at the time that the elimination of bedsits was not necessarily the problem. Senator Michael McDowell made an interesting point about how we could increase capacity. It is one at which we should look. I will submit a request for the Minister to come to the House to discuss the issue. We cannot compromise on standards when it comes to the space, type and quality of accommodation and actual physical environment in which people live. Those of us who are engaged in constituency politics will know that, in some cases, conditions are absolutely appalling. To be fair, I appreciate that that is not Senator Michael McDowell's view. I hope that, if the conditions are relaxed, we will not be allowing squalor to come back. The Senator made a good point about who inspected properties. The Health Information and Quality Authority looks at things like health and safety and hygiene, including food hygiene. It sometimes strikes me that apartments and other forms of living accommodation are not inspected. I do not want to bring Big Brother into it, but recently I have seen some absolutely unacceptable accommodation. The points made by the Senator can be considered when we have a debate on housing in a couple of weeks' time or as soon as we can.

Senator Maria Byrne spoke about Orkambi, which is used to treat cystic fibrosis. It is important that the Minister for Health engage with all of us but especially Vertex on how the price can be kept down in order that the drug will be affordable and accessible. I will be happy to have him come to the House in that regard.

Senator Paul Gavan mentioned the issues at Bus Éireann. I appreciate that we need a public bus system. We need public transport. The language we use is important, as we can scare people by talking about the removal of routes. The Senator knows well that that is not going to happen and he can give me all of the Sinn Féin spin he wants.