I will follow on immediately from what Senator Gallagher said by acknowledging the courageous and dedicated work of teachers for the past two difficult years. I am very troubled by the fact that, unlike last year, the National Council for the Blind of Ireland, which provides specialised support to visually impaired children, seems to have been excluded from the summer scheme for special educational needs and students for this year. I have tabled a Commencement matter for tomorrow to try to get clarity on this and I hope the Cathaoirleach will accept it.

I have two things to raise with the Leader. We need a debate on long Covid with the Minister for Health. More and more people are showing symptoms of long Covid, whether it is difficulties with their senses, such as loss of their sense of smell, pains or fatigue, which is a major problem. We need a defined, dedicated and funded strategy to deal with long Covid. This is a debate we need to have in this House because Covid will be with us for a long time and people suffering from long Covid need our support and our understanding. The symptoms in these cases do not go away after seven or 14 days. I would like to see a summing-up debate on Covid with the Minister for Health before the summer recess, given the fact that Covid has dominated matters this term and since this Seanad was constituted. Perhaps the Leader could organise that with the Minister.

On a more positive note, the Cathaoirleach's part of the country, just like mine, depends very heavily on tourism. It is great to see tourists starting to come back this year, as they did last year. Tourism will be one of the cornerstones of rebuilding our economy post the pandemic. We should have a debate on tourism and the evolving strategy relating to it, particularly what we are going to do to encourage people in America and other countries to travel to Ireland in the years ahead.

I second the proposal that the time limit for debate on the climate change Bill be extended to 8.30 p.m. In that context, the Bill is just a Bill. I spoke about this briefly last week, but I will say one more thing about it. Over the weekend we had evidence that the ESB is now installing emergency generating capacity in the Dublin docks because of problems and to avoid blackouts. If this plan is implemented, and if everyone's ambitions are to be met, we are moving towards a society that will be much more dependent on electricity. We have turned our back on fossil fuels - or are trying to. We have limited capacity for hydroelectric generation. Wind power, onshore and offshore, is opposed by interest groups all over the country, and we want to see when that infrastructure will be built to a satisfactory degree. However - and this is the most crucial thing - side by side with all the rhetoric about sustainable energy, we are building data centres. The Apple centre in Athenry, which has recently been revived, will, if fully built out, account for an increased demand for electricity of 8%. Five data centres would increase our electricity usage by 40%. There are two schools of thought in the Government. I say this to the Leader but I am not making a party political point. There are two departmental schools. One is that we cannot fail the multinationals, we must do what they want and we must build all these data centres because they are the future. The other school of thought is that of economic reality as it relates to electricity generation. The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has said he is not ruling out nuclear power. If nuclear power is necessary and is an essential part of the implementation of Government plans, we should be told so and there should be no more hiding behind statements such as "I am not ruling it out". It is either in or it is out. Let us hear which it is.