All politics is local and the issue I raise today is a local one in many ways. We have an unbelievable scenario in Ballinspittle, where there are two wonderful beaches. Garrylucas is one of them. Garrylucas has now lost its blue flag because there is no recycling on the beach itself. It is 20 m away at the next beach in Garrettstown. It has recycling and blue flag status. We are stuck in a scenario where An Taisce, in its wisdom, has declared that one of our beaches in beautiful west Cork, with the weather shining, is not now up to blue flag status because the recycling facility is not at a location within 20 m of the beach. What in the name of God are we doing? The weather is beautiful, with sunshine like we have never seen before, and An Taisce has obviously done a desktop study. Its representatives have never put a foot on the beach because if they did, they would have seen that these two beaches, which are actually joining, have a recycling centre right in the middle of them.

What I am asking for today relates to the unbelievable powers regarding blue flag status we have given An Taisce. It is now now determining who gets a blue flag status. We now need to reel it in. We now need to have the Minister, whom we have heard in another contribution is not willing to engage at some level, come on board to make sure that logic prevails when it comes to our beautiful natural resources. I cannot understand what the Minister has done here. An Taisce has lost the faith of the public in Cork over this issue and it needs to be brought to task. They need to be brought in by the Minister. I appeal to the Acting Leader to use his good powers to write to the Minister to intervene immediately to make sure that this beach, which is a wonderful beach that the Acting Leader knows well, is made of an appropriate bathing water standard. It should get the designation that it always had.

The Chair should not intervene but, as somebody who uses Garrettstown beach every summer and in the middle of winter as well, it bemuses me that it has lost its blue flag status for the reasons the Senator outlined. I will not make any policy comment but it beggars belief. That is why I support the Senator on that.

What you say makes complete logical sense, a Chathaoirligh.

I support the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by my colleague, Senator Seery Kearney.

I would also like to raise an issue that I have raised on many occasions, as have many other colleagues across the House, which is University Hospital Limerick, UHL. I welcome the announcement by the Minister yesterday that enabling and foundation works will commence straightaway for the second 96-bed block unit in the hospital. It makes absolute sense that the contractors there now would do the enabling and foundation works for the second block. I am told that type of work involved in constructing the 96-bed unit is substantial. I call on the Minister to outline the timelines and to sanction the business case for the second 96-bed block. We all know it is needed. There has been underinvestment in capacity in UHL for decades. We had reconfiguration that was an absolute disaster. That should never have happened. It was a classic example of putting the cart before the horse. We are in a situation where reconfiguration did not happen in other parts of the country after the disastrous experience that the people of the mid-west, in particular, Limerick, Clare and north Tipperary, have suffered. That policy decision at the time was a disaster and the fact is that people's lives have been impacted. People's health has been impacted. People have had horrendous experiences on trolleys as a result of it. It is incumbent on the Minister to sanction the business case for the 96-bed unit and give us the timeline. I welcome the fact that the first 96-bed block unit will be up and running by the end of 2024, which is a year and a half away. Surely to God another year should see the second 96-bed block built.