Today, I want to raise something that is very difficult to talk about but must be talked about. My town of Duleek had the darkest of days in 2018 and 2019 when we suffered five young deaths by suicide. This morning, I am highlighting my birth parish of Denn in County Cavan, which has experienced three young deaths by suicide this past year, all of whom were neighbours. On Tuesday, I listened to Joe Finnegan of Northern Sound talking to the Heaslip family of Carrickaboy - Raymond, Maggie, Chloe and Finn. I heard about a young man, their son and brother, Eden Heaslip, a bright witty fellow with a great grá for music and cars. I heard about his Joe Canning Galway GAA jersey, his family farm and his willingness to stand up for others. I also heard about how he was kicked to the ground every day and how he was shouted at, "Go home to your own country", on account of his Protestant background. I heard about his head being physically held down soiled toilets, of him being pinched at lunch tables and boxed, and how the threats from his abusers were so great that he would not even enter his own town. I heard how the abuse followed him online, how he could not put a single thing up on social media without vile vicious comments being hurled at him and how his abusers would create new accounts to continue to harass him even after he had blocked them. I heard about how, after carrying a pain of the heart, a pain of his mind, that it left scars deep where no one could see. Eden came to think, "This is it, I have to put up with it. This is the way it is going to be." No one can live their life that way and, on 20 September, Eden Heaslip took his own life at the age of 18. No parent should have to bury their child. We have laws to protect employers from bullying in the workplace. Where are the laws to protect Eden? I ask us to hear the Heaslip family today. Can we do our duty as legislators and put a stop to this senseless suffering? Can we, please?

I heard Fr. Jason, the parish priest, talking this morning on Northern Sound about this particular child. Like so many parish priests in the country, including my own priest, Fr. John, he is instrumental in providing counselling for these young people. God bless them in their work. We really need to put wraparound services in local areas that are suffering such as my home parish of Denn and Duleek. Otherwise, it will be left to us community leaders to step in where the Government has failed. Let us not fail the Heaslip family. Let us not fail all those families who have suffered death by suicide in this country. There are too many.

I thank Senator Keogan. I am conscious that we have to move on today because of the mass but I will say this: I am from that community and I know the exact case. I know that, tragically and sadly, everything Senator Keogan has said is true. It is a horror. It is an unspeakable event and the events leading to it are unspeakable. I thank Senator Keogan for raising it. I look forward to the Leader's response on that. This is the most serious matter raised here for a long time.

I support Senator Keogan. I just came in from the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications. It is a harrowing story. I had seen it online. It is so tragic. If anything can come out of it, it is that people might try to be that bit kinder to each other and try not to engage in this activity. It is horrific. Perhaps they do not appreciate what they are doing but they are really doing enormous harm.

I rise today in relation to the final reopening of hospitality - the reopening of the late-night entertainment sector after 585 or 586 days at this stage. It has been an enormously long time. The previous Seanad was still sitting when the lockdown was introduced in March of last year. At the time, we did not know what was coming. It was all very new. I want to wish everyone who works in or is involved with the hospitality industry, including those who avail of late bars and nightclubs, particularly young people but also those young at heart who are maybe not as young, all the very best. I encourage everybody to do their best to try and stick to whatever guidelines are there. We all want to open up in a reasonable way but we are cognisant that this week there are many more people in hospital than last week and many more people in ICU than last week. This House should send a message to everyone in that industry that it is valuable and important and we appreciate the work they do. I wish all of those who have turned 18 and will be able to go to these places for the first time, with their legal-age ID card as proof of the fact, many evenings of enjoyment. They have never been there before. I hope they stay safe and they mind each other.

I will begin with something I meant to say yesterday. I wish to put on record my own support for the Leader in relation to the nonsensical emails that we have received over the past few days. Some of those people will be outside the building today. We do not believe in any of that nonsense and are in full solidarity with the Leader in that regard.

The issue I want to raise today is the plight of the people of Yemen. There was an awful landmark reached yesterday. Ten thousand children have now been killed or maimed since fighting started in March 2015. That is the equivalent of four children every day. According to a UNICEF report, four out of every five children need humanitarian assistance. That is more than 11 million children. The plight of the people of Yemen is horrendous and the elephant in the room is that our neighbours in Britain have sold €20 billion worth of arms to the Saudi authorities to help them to continue to wage their war - aircraft, helicopters, drones, grenades, bombs, missiles and various other countermeasures. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has spoken out about the humanitarian consequences but we have a seat on the United Nations Security Council. I would ask what are we using that seat for if we do not speak out against the horrendous policies of the British Government in relation to that war. They are profiting to the tune of €20 billion worth of equipment. If we are to be on the UN Security Council we must be prepared to use our voice and that does not merely mean stating that the situation is awful and something must be done. I acknowledge that we have contributed valuable aid to alleviate the plight of the people there but, surely to God, if we are on the Security Council, we need to speak out for human rights. I am sorry to say it is another further abject failure of the Government to speak out about what is happening in Yemen, in particular Britain's role in €20 billion worth of weapons to keep the crisis going and to keep children being bombed and suffering and dying, day after day. Surely, when we are on that council, we can do better.

I urge the Leader to contact the Minister for Finance before he publishes the finance Bill and ask him to extend, in budget 2022, the provision that exists for commercial residential landlords to claim tax relief to address fire defects in apartments to owner-occupiers and social landlords. This is an issue that has been aired on many occasions.

The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has established an independent working group, which is evaluating the cost of these works and their extent. The Department of Finance, to be fair, is engaged on that working group. In the meantime the owner-occupiers are living in what can only be described as ticking time bombs. They are living in apartments that have inadequate fire protection. They cannot sleep at night for fear of smelling smoke or the sound of a fire. It is unnerving for them. On top of that, the home insurance they had is due to run out by the end of this year. The insurance companies will not extend it beyond next year. There is an urgency now for an intervention. We were all horrified by Grenfell and when Priory Hall was discovered, Dublin City Council moved promptly to address that. I urge the Leader to write to the Minister for Finance and urge him to even make a time-bound limited intervention in budget 2022 to extend the same provisions to owner-occupiers of apartments and social landlords that exist for commercial landlords.

I also thank Senator Keogan for raising that issue. It is really heartbreaking to hear that story. It is unbelievable for that individual and family and for all of our community. We all need to recognise that there are a lot of toxic and very ill people in our communities and in our society. We must all do what we can to address that and support those who are being victimised. It is really wrong.