We read about the predictions of growth from the ESRI and that it will be near 10%, depending on who is doing the numbers. Yesterday, we had the UN human development index showing that Ireland had jumped from eighth in the world to fourth in terms of health, education and income, which is to be welcomed in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment, health and people's wages. We also see on the reverse end of that scale, however, homelessness and housing as ongoing issues. The Government is blaming others rather than itself, and it does not seem to have a plan, or rather it has many plans, because we have seen how many times it has announced them, but it does not have plans that it implements. No one is being held to account for that, although the blame seems to be transferred from the Department to the local authorities.

We would like to see the real plan and the real figures. The Department continually issues figures, but they have been challenged in the media by Dr. Lorcan Sirr and others who show the Government portraying houses being built when often they are just being reconnected to the electricity system having had their electricity turned off. The Department knows this and knows that it is giving false figures, but we cannot even get it to admit the truth until it is found out by experts.

I would also like to raise the issue of the human tissue Bill, which the Minister for Health has announced again some 13 years after it was first announced. In particular, I want to raise the issue of presumed consent, the idea that every one of us is an organ donor unless we opt out, and that there will be a very expensive system whereby we would opt out if we did not want to be organ donors. This has not worked effectively anywhere else in the world. Mark Murphy, CEO of the Irish Kidney Association, who is an expert in this area, has said time and again that despite the idea of presumed consent, with a register and so on, the family would still be consulted on whether their loved one would be an organ donor. This means that it is not really presumed consent and it is talked of as a soft opt-out. This is all done to distract from the fact the health system is not working properly and that we have so many patients on trolleys. I suppose it might provide a brief respite for the Minister.

Come off it.

We have a driving licence system through which we collect the information on who wants to be an organ donor. In May we had the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in the House and we explained to him, although he was not aware of it, that he shared data on people's driving licences with private companies like eFlow, those doing clamping and the Courts Service. Despite this, he does not allow the health service to access the information that is in the driving licence registry of who does and does not want to be an organ donor. It is a simple systems failure, like the organ donation system, where we spend hundreds of millions every year on dialysis.

If we had proper systems whereby health professionals were able to contact the driving licence authority and then tell people that their son or daughter wanted to be an organ donor and that they had a copy of the driving licence, they would be able to inform families of their loved one's intentions. While that simple change to the system is not being considered, the Minister is proposing a grandiose opt-out system that will cost millions, even though the family will still have a veto, as they should. Does that sound like a system that is working or a system we should have, when we have a driving licence system in place that checks every ten years whether someone wants to be an organ donor?

The Senator is over time.

By the way, in a ten-year period we will spend over €1 billion on dialysis, whereas if we had a proper, functioning organ donation system, we would not only save money but also save lives.