What happened with the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, I believe, is well documented as to why it was built beside a motorway and not in the community where it was supposed to be, which would have made it accessible by foot to many members of the community. Staff in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre have suddenly been informed that they must now park in an overflow car park at a cost of €2.50 a day. Not only that, but the public can also park in that same overflow car park, which creates capacity issues causing great stress to the workers. In addition, there are only 550 car parking spaces for over 2,000 members of staff. The car parking could cost staff up to €600 per year and these changes are to come into operation on Monday.

To put it in perspective, €600 per year will wipe out the energy credit the workers are due to get. It is effectively a pay cut for the staff in Liffey Valley. Senators may have seen that the workers were out protesting at the weekend. I express my solidarity with each and every one of them. This seems an outrageously costly change for staff. The reason given by management for the change was a decision to shift towards more sustainable modes of transport, but that just does not add up. The infrastructure is not there. It is coming but the location of the shopping centre is problematic for people trying to get to it. As we face cost-of-living increases, the workers are now going to be charged just to go to work. The management of Liffey Valley needs to review the change and continue to talk to staff, unions and tenants because staff at the centre should not be out of pocket because of these changes.

I have seen some commentary whereby people have stated that it is only €2.50, but that is still €2.50 out of your pay cheque just to get to work. Also, most of the workers are not able to get into that overflow car park. One worker was saying that the car park is full from morning-time, and workers may be on late shifts. Parking then costs €12.50 per day. Thus it will cost workers €12.50 per day to go to work. I reiterate my solidarity with the Liffey Valley workers. As I said, I am all in favour of a modal shift but you cannot just bring in something overnight when workers do not have an alternative, especially those who work late.

This is a rare occasion. I would like to comment on Senator Garvey's contribution. I was there this morning. The response read out by the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, was a disgrace. It was a very appropriate question. As that question has been asked on school transportation and given the way the rules of the Seanad work, it will be six months before we can go back into that circle. We got a bluff of an answer. We have kids who want to get a school bus and we have a Minister of State who did not answer the question. We are going to have to find another way to deal with this because what happened here, when you look at the blacks, was frightening. The Department did not look at the question, did not deal with it and now it has blanked off the situation for the next six months. I am not putting the Cathaoirleach on the spot but it is his responsibility to ensure that we get fair play. We were wronged this morning. Schoolchildren all over Ireland were wronged. I had parents watching the response. The phones lit up like Christmas because of what happened here. We need to have a fair process in place so we can get a decent response to questions.

What happened here was just unbelievable. I have been here since 2016 and have never heard a response like it. Senator Garvey can write in but the Cathaoirleach has a responsibility to protect us from what happened here. I cannot happen again. The school transport issue has not gone away. There are kids in west Cork today who do not have a school bus and they have no ability to get tickets at the moment because we cannot get a response.

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

I cannot raise this issue for the next six months because of the bluff we got earlier. Do we need to go suspending Standing Orders? Do we need to put down motions? I am not sure where to go next, but the kids of west Cork deserve better, the kids of Ireland deserve better and to be perfectly honest this House deserves better than what we got this morning. I put it to the Cathaoirleach that he needs to intervene directly with the senior Minister and come back to us next week, because we cannot have this. If we do, there is no point in putting down Commencement matters.