The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the Employment Equality Act 1998 (Section 12) (Reservation of Vocational Training Places) Order 2022, referral to committee, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; No. 2, motion regarding the proposed approval by Seanad Éireann of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4 (2))(Scheme Termination Date) Order 2023, back from committee, to be taken on the conclusion of No. 1, without debate; No. 3, motion regarding the orders of reference for the Seanad Public Consultation Committee, to be taken on conclusion of No. 2, without debate; No. 4, Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 - Report and Final Stages, to be taken at 3.15 p.m. and to adjourn at 5 p.m., if not previously concluded; No. 5, Animal Health and Welfare (Dogs) Bill 2022 - Committee Stage, to be taken at 5 p.m. and to adjourn at 6 p.m., if not previously concluded; and No. 133, motion 10, regarding the Troubles and the location of victims' remains, to be taken at 6.30 p.m., with the time allocated to this debate not to exceed two hours.

I thank the Deputy Leader. I welcome everybody back from their St. Patrick's break. I hope everybody had a very restful and joyful St Patrick's Day. I call on Senator Eugene Murphy.

Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. I must say you are looking well after your trip. I hope you enjoyed the weekend. I am one who very much believes that we get great mileage out of St. Patrick's Day across the world. I know some people have a different view, but we really get huge publicity across the world, and I think our Ministers and various leaders, including the Cathaoirleach, sell Ireland well across the world. If one takes the overall benefit from that in terms of tourism, business and so on, it is not a huge cost. I support the Order of Business outlined by the Deputy Leader.

It is great to see people back here. I want to start with last night's "Prime Time" programme and the excellent report by Conor McMorrow on the type of abuse faced by another set of front-line workers, that is, people in the retail trade. I do not know how many Senators saw that programme last night, but it was utterly shocking and deplorable. While we accept it is a minority of people, it is too bad that it is happening. On a number of occasions, I and others in the Seanad have spoken very strongly about all of our front-line workers, whether it is gardaí or health workers. Here we have another sector. Shopkeepers and retailers feel they have to speak out about the way they and their staff are being abused, attacked and threatened. There was one story about a person in a shop who was threatened with being stabbed with a needle outside the shop when somebody was shoplifting from it.

This brings us back to the word "respect", and respect for people, whatever one's differences are with them. I said before in the Seanad that we need to revisit that word. I ask the Deputy Leader, as I did previously when the Leader was here, to look at the possibility of holding a debate with our leaders, the Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, the Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, and the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and redefine this whole area of what respect is. The word "respect" is slowly but surely being dragged out of society. There can be wrongs on both sides, but there can be no excuse for the type of material we saw on "Prime Time" on which Conor McMorrow and his team did such a good job.

We, as leaders, must take this further. We can all talk about it. I am talking about it a lot here, but we need to do something. I hope all Senators agree. This is not in any way divisive. Everybody in this Chamber would abhor what is being done to front-line workers. Perhaps it is something the Deputy Leader would at least look at to see what benefit there could be by having a debate with our Taoiseach, Tánaiste and the Minister for Transport, even if it is only an hour long debate to highlight the issue. Let everybody sing from the one hymn sheet with regard to stamping this out, and bringing the word "respect" back for all people.

I would like to welcome the new Government scheme announced by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Charlie McConalogue, yesterday, namely, the €260 million suckler carbon efficiency programme, SCEP. This new scheme will see farmers receive a payment of €150 for the first 22 cows, and €120 for subsequent cows. The Minister, Deputy McConalogue, might come in to address all of those schemes which are available to rural and farming communities. This scheme is to be very much welcomed.

I thank Senator Murphy. I call an Seanadóir Joe O'Reilly.

Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. Some days ago I had the pleasure of coming in here to welcome the Windsor agreement, and to appeal to the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, and, very importantly, the business community and civic society in Ulster to embrace the agreement and maybe impress upon the DUP leadership the importance of accepting it. As a Border person, I reiterate that plea to civic society in Northern Ireland, to the business community and to all people there to put pressure on to get the Windsor agreement accepted and to re-establish power sharing.

Recently, when speaking on the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, I brought up the question of practical things that could be done that could advance a unity of hearts and minds on the island. I mentioned that in various grant aids, such as the sports capital grants and various community grants, extra points could be given in the evaluation of the application, or rather positive discrimination could be shown to applications which show evidence of going up North and bringing people down from Northern Ireland, or which were creating that link.

I ask the Deputy Leader that we have a debate on this question, a debate purely focused on strategies that we, as a country, could employ to bring about unity on the island. Obviously, the whole question of the special unit in the Taoiseach's office comes into play there, but there might be exercises that we could do, like exchanges between schools, or educational, cultural or sporting exchanges, to build up that trust and interaction between people. The great difficulty on the island is the degree to which the entire Republic is Dublin-centric and that we do not have enough people travelling North, looking North, shopping North, visiting North, etc.

I hope the Deputy Leader - and I notice her nodding in approval - will embrace this and have a debate around it. I would love to participate in such a debate. The focus of the debate would not be to set out aspirations, but rather that we go through practical steps that could be taken in the next few months. We will never achieve Irish unity on aspirations unless we build these bridges.

Go raibh míle maith agat. I call an Seanadóir Boyhan.

I thank the Cathaoirleach, and thank the Deputy Leader for setting out the proposed Order of Business. I want to start off by thanking Senator Catherine Ardagh, and former Senator, Averil Power, the CEO of the Irish Cancer Society, for organising the Daffodil Day coffee morning in the House this morning. It was very well attended, and I thank all involved, and the Irish Cancer Society for the enormous work it does in supporting people with cancer. We all know of its great work.

I do not know if anyone listened to "Drivetime" yesterday evening, but I happened to be going to Carrick-on-Shannon and I listened it. Alan Fay and Andrea Reilly, both members of Empowering People in Care, EPIC, which is a youth council that supports people with disabilities and empowers people who have lived in care, or who have come from care, spoke very movingly about their issues and concerns.

EPIC is a national organisation that works with children and young people currently living in State care or not. It was moving. I recommend its report to everyone. I uploaded it and it is going out to every Oireachtas Member here today. It asks the contributors if they were to write a book about their life experience. It is full of quotes from these people in the service and asks what would they call it, which is how the report got its name. They talk about their care experiences in sections called, for example, "Headphones", "Odd shoes", "My experience" and "Don't miss my ability". It is about the unique lives and experience of people. I encourage people to play back the podcast. It was a very moving piece and has been mentioned several times since. Their ask is for people to listen to their voices and read their words in this report. It is peppered with their quotes. They say they wish to be given safe and inclusive opportunities to express their views, but more importantly, they want their views to be listened to and acted upon. What can we in the Oireachtas do? Surely, we can ask to have it discussed in the Committee on Disability Matters. That is important. More importantly, we can use it to inform us as policy makers. I encourage people to read that.

I strongly commend the Bill in the name of Senator Boylan and Sinn Féin regarding dogs and animal welfare. It is important. My one ask is that we get a commitment today, if possible, from the office of the Minister, Deputy Ryan, that he will agree to honour his commitment to come to this House next week for a debate and statements regarding Inland Fisheries Ireland. I have prepared a proposal for tomorrow's Order of Business. I hope it will not be necessary, but I will be circulating it this afternoon. If this House does not have a commitment from the Minister, we can expect to discuss this tomorrow on the Order of Business.