I would like to use my time to pay tribute to the GAA family in County Monaghan. As many Members will know, Monaghan is a small county with a population of 60,000-odd, and there are only something like 33 GAA clubs in the county. However, that does not stop them achieving great things on the field. Last Sunday, they qualified for the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final, where they will meet Dublin. I pay tribute to their manager, Vinny Corey, and the entire panel involved in that.

This Sunday, Monaghan play in the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship final against Derry in the BOX-IT Athletic Grounds, Armagh. Again, for a small county, the clubs, and the volunteers within those clubs, deserve huge credit. For a small county with a small number of clubs, they are competing with the very best. That does not come by accident. It comes with hard work and endeavour. I pay tribute to every single person who volunteers for their local GAA club, and I wish Vinny Corey and the Monaghan senior team every success against Dublin on Saturday week, 15 July in Croke Park. A word of caution to my Dublin colleagues: the Farney army is on the march and it is heading for the capital on Saturday week. Again, Dermot Malone and the Monaghan minor team play in their All-Ireland final this Sunday evening, and I wish them every success as well.

I agree with Senator Gallagher's comments and look forward to seeing Monaghan in the final. Next up we have Senator Flynn, and I welcome her daughter, Billie White, to the Gallery, who has been with us previously. She has an outstanding attendance record. Every time she comes to Leinster House she joins us in Seanad Éireann.

I am getting used to leaving her in the Gallery so that she will not be disturbing the House. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Yesterday, I got word that a young woman who was living in Labre Park for a while before she moved - she was actually a good friend for the length that she was in Labre Park - passed away by suicide. Thinking of the last number of months, the level of suicides within the Traveller community has gone absolutely through the roof. It was visible for many years, but now it is even more visible, and to see a young woman in her early 30s losing her life through suicide impacts a whole community.

I know we could have a Commencement matter for four minutes, which would be important to see where we are with Traveller mental health. The Government put in its programme for Government that it would work with the Traveller community. What the Government did, unfortunately, was to throw money at it but have no implementation, with very little money going to Traveller mental health.

Drug and alcohol use within the Traveller community has gone through the roof. We really need wraparound mental health supports for the Traveller community. It is Traveller Pride Week and if this House could do one thing to celebrate Traveller Pride Week, it would be to have debate on Traveller mental health. Every single one of us in this House has a responsibility to implement health services for all of our communities, including the Traveller community. I refer to Sharing the Vision, but we are not sharing the vision of the Traveller community when it comes to suicide within our community.

I am calling for that debate within the next two weeks, if at all possible, so that Senators from Louth, Kildare, Tullamore or wherever have an opportunity to see what is happening in their areas, to have a conversation with the Minister and to see what we can do to try to save people's lives in the community. It has gone too far.

I will comment on today's Order of Business. No. 1 is a motion on the Seanad select committee. I circulated to every Member of this House press coverage from the wonderful RTÉ and its news service, which is an amazing service, and commentary attributed to the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, regarding teething problems - I do not want a list of any teething problems - and talking about statutory instruments which transpose EU legislation into Irish law rather than the final version. This is somewhat at odds with the terms of reference we accepted in this House. I note from the Seanad debates that on Wednesday, 7 December 2022, our then Leader, Senator Regina Doherty, proposed the terms of reference and the motion. It stated "the Committee shall have the power to receive a list of all Directives requiring transposition under section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972", and it goes on to set out ten items. I suggest we redistribute this to the Seanad because we need to be reminded of it.

Today's motion relates to travel and I have no difficulty with supporting people in doing their work. However, I want to be sure of what we are signing up to because I am not sending people, or incurring public expense sending people, to some sort of charade or Mickey Mouse committee. Either the committee will adhere to its terms of reference or it will not. We need clarity on that. I wish the committee well at its first meeting today but let us be clear about what we have signed up to. Let us be clear about what we approve.

On Senator Mullen's issue on the guillotining of legislation, the Leader has it within her power to accept his amendment. I do not like the idea of guillotining legislation. We have plenty of time. This House has another two weeks to sit and we can fit additional time in. Let us not go down the road of guillotining legislation as it is a bad road.

I would like to mention Andrew and Max, the students of St. Michael's College who died tragically on Ios. I know the beautiful island of Ios because I lived there. Of all the islands, it is a most amazing place. Our thoughts have to be with their families. What a tragedy it is that they went there with their friends, with youth on their side and with ambition and determination to have a bit of fun, to find they are now coming back from the beautiful island of Ios. It was a special time for them. Our thoughts and our prayers are with their families and their extended school family, which is St. Michael's College.

I concur with Senator Gallagher's comments. I am heavily involved with the GAA in my county, although the population is slightly smaller than County Monaghan. I know the work that goes into every single club, from underage clubs upwards, to get to the position of being in an all-Ireland minor final and an all-Ireland senior semi-final. We wish them and all of those involved in the GAA in County Monaghan well.

I welcome the Government's announcement today of the extension of free GP care to six- and seven-year olds.

A commitment was given several years ago to ultimately extend it up to those of 12 years of age. Today's announcement is the Government sticking to its commitment to give free GP care benefits to every family in the country. It has my support in that regard.

I support Senator Black in her call for a debate on Palestine. She spelled it out clearly and I fully agree the House should have that debate.

A number of Government services closed during Covid. The Department of Social Protection suboffice in Granard, north Longford, which also provides services into counties Cavan and Westmeath, still has not fully reopened. I ask the Leader to contact the Minister for Social Protection to highlight the need for that office to get back providing a full service. It services not just the people in the north end of County Longford but also those in south Cavan and north Westmeath.