I call Senator Maria Byrne. I thank her for bringing the passing of former Senator Mary Jackman to the notice of the House.

I thank the Cathaoirleach. I paid my own tribute to former Senator Jackman yesterday, but I am thinking of her husband, Nick, her daughter, Nicola, and her sister, Ursula, who are watching this morning. I pass on my sympathies again. I thank my colleagues and I am sure many more will be contributing further kind words regarding the passing of the late Mary Jackman.

The CEO of Age Action Ireland was on "Morning Ireland" today speaking about senior citizens and the withdrawal of Ulster Bank and KBC from Ireland. I am on the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, and this issue was raised at our last meeting. We have had several meetings where we have brought in representatives of the banks. The spokesperson for Age Action Ireland today echoed the point I had made at the meeting of the joint committee last week. Many of us are computer-savvy or adept at email. People are receiving letters and emails about these bank changes and they must go online to change their direct debits and similar services. While the representatives of the banks who appeared at the finance committee said they were going to have people on hand to provide help in the banks, several technological aspects must still be surmounted.

Many older people are afraid because they are not computer savvy. This is causing them stress and strain. We should have a debate here regarding how best to advise people in this situation. Perhaps representatives of the banks could be brought in. While they have come to the joint committee already, we should communicate our reservations now concerning what older people are going through because of these changes. It is not a nice place for older people to find themselves. Banks have become all about computers now. This suits some people, but not all. This is one of the main reasons that I raise this issue today.

I may sound like a broken record when I bring up the topic of University Hospital Limerick, UHL, but it has been reported today in the newspapers that a family's loved one, who was in UHL, disappeared from the hospital. That person was missing for several hours before being found by the Garda. I am aware as well of another family whose members encountered a similar situation recently, but they did not go public about what happened.

Given this type of issue, as well the overcrowding in the hospital and the number of people waiting on beds there, it is evident that there is a serious problem at UHL. I asked the Deputy Leader yesterday if she would contact the Minister's office in this regard. I asked the Deputy Leader to do that because I wrote to that office seeking clarification regarding what is going to happen with the independent review. To date, I have received no correspondence in response on this issue. I am concerned for the health and safety of not only families and their loved ones who are using the hospital, but also for the staff. In the article where the family I mentioned gave details about their loved one going missing from the hospital, they said they would never go back to the hospital again. It is a terrible indictment of a hospital for a family to state they are afraid to take their loved one back there. Therefore, I would like the Acting Leader's support regarding this issue.

I warmly welcome the Portuguese ambassador to our Chamber. I also join my colleagues in extending my sympathy on the death of former Senator Mary Jackman. I knew her well personally. She engaged with me in respect of her own election to the Seanad. She was a Member of this House for two terms and, of course, spent 30 years as a county councillor in Limerick. Ms Jackman was the first female cathaoirleach, or mayor, of Limerick County Council and she was very proud of that. How things have changed and how we have progressed regarding women's access to politics from the time Ms Jackman was there. She was a person who was committed to the work of the Local Authorities Members Association, LAMA, and the General Council of County Councillors, GCCC, as it was then, prior to the advent of the Association of Irish Local Government, AILG. Ms Jackman toured around the country advocating extensively and strongly for local government and its members, and particularly for women in local politics. I acknowledge her contribution in that regard. To her family, she was, as people said, an absolute lady, and a pleasure to know and an exceptionally warm, stylish and bright person. I will always remember her for those reasons.

I wish to extend my condolences to her family and to Fine Gael. She was at the centre of Fine Gael and terribly proud of her connections with it. I thank the Leader's office for arranging the extended time to debate the Birth Information and Tracing Bill. It is important legislation. There will be a number of amendments and I hope we will have a full House. It is among the most important legislation to come before us in the past few months. Very few people have been here to engage with it in the past. I personally have a stake in it and have been down this road. Perhaps I am biased. It is important legislation. I thank the Minister, who is engaging with it in the extended time.

I note the earlier comment about strategic housing developments. The strategic housing development process was a failure on the part of the last Administration. I have sat in here year in, year out, hearing Government Members be rightly critical of it, but it was Government policy. It changed and we have a new policy now, which is about time. Yesterday, yet again, the High Court overturned a major strategic housing development in Monkstown, County Dublin, at a site called Dalguise. Citizens, residents and communities cannot always be wrong, when the High Court is vindicating them and upholding the objections. We need a debate on An Bord Pleanála, its functions and its processes. I want a debate on its processes. I am not calling into question its decisions. Ultimately, the processes will take care of it.

Finally, as I did last week, I yet again call for the senior counsel, Rory Mulcahy's, report on the investigation into corruption in Donegal to be published. It has been sitting on the Minister's desk for five years. It should be published at some point.

The Senator has to be sure that he is using the word "alleged" if he is talking about corruption.

To be clear, there is a report and the Minister has confirmed that to me. It is not an alleged report and I will not allow anyone to say it is an alleged report.

It is about alleged corruption. It can only be proven as corruption in a court of law.

Absolutely. The report is about alleged planning irregularities in Donegal.

I thank the Senator.

The report is complete. We will know exactly what is in the report, if it is alleged or not and whether it is substantiated or not, when it is published. I am calling for a report that was commissioned, and then undertaken by senior counsel Rory Mulcahy. The report is sitting on the Minister's desk and I want it to be published.