I would like to be associated with the expressions of sympathy on the death of Garda Flatley to his wife, his two daughters and his extended family. As my colleagues have mentioned, 90 gardaí have left their homes to go on duty and never returned.

There are also the gardaí who left their homes, went on duty and were injured while on duty. I am mindful of my young brother, who was sitting in the family home in Galway while visiting my mother and father and watching the RTÉ equivalent of "Prime Time" or whatever it was called at that time. There was a piece on about prisoners in Mountjoy Prison. As he was watching the programme, one of the prisoners came on and explained about how, as a sufferer from AIDS, he was being treated so badly. The prisoner in question had bitten my brother. My brother was sitting in the house and this was the first knowledge he had of having been bitten by somebody with AIDS. He left the house quietly, came back to Dublin and went to a physician, who subsequently diagnosed him with hepatitis. He died at 47 years old. I have no doubt that what happened to him led to an early death. There were other circumstances as well but I have no doubt but that it led to an early death.

On social media every night, we see thugs walking beside gardaí filming them for social media, taunting them and trying to get them into a situation where they will injure themselves. We need to put legislation in place to protect gardaí while they are out on duty. I welcome the body cameras and similar things that will come down the line. There need to be tough sentences for those who interfere with a garda carrying out his or her lawful duty. It has been going on in this country for far too long now. I offer my sympathy with the Flatleys but also with all the gardaí who are today sitting at home unable to work because of disablement.

I rise to speak on biomethane facilities and their development throughout the country. It is an issue that has become incredibly prominent and problematic in recent months. I appreciate that the national biomethane strategy was published last year. It contains 25 key strategic actions to address the challenges and opportunities of anaerobic digestion and biomethane production. However, these guidelines completely fail to address the issue of the planning and location of these biomethane facilities. It is becoming more and more prominent across the country. In Kilboultragh, which is an area just outside of my home town of Macroom in Cork North-West, there is a proposal to convert a former piggery to a biomethane facility. Residents of the area believe that this is completely inappropriate. It will be located within 2 km of 200 residents. The roads are not up to scratch for the HGVs and other vehicles that will be attending this property. It is something that needs to be addressed. At the moment, planning guidelines in this regard vary from local authority to local authority. This quite simply is not good enough. While biomethane production does produce many opportunities for us, it is important that facilities are strategically and properly placed. For that reason, I am calling on the Minister for climate, environment and communications to come to the Seanad to discuss the matter of planning in respect of biomethane facilities.

I echo the sympathies for Garda Flatley and his family. My father was a garda. I remember as a child that you expected your mum or dad to come home from work every day. I was particularly struck to hear in the reporting of the tragic incident that the number of gardaí who are injured in roads policing is up to 70 every year. I hope that the Commissioner and the representative associations can get together and try to meditate the risk that is obviously there on the roads for members of An Garda Síochána. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

I again raise the case of Louise Hassan and her daughter Caitlin. I have raised this issue many times in the House over the past year. Caitlin is a young woman who has been sexual assaulted - raped - while in State-funded care. This is the Grace case happening right now in real time. I am particularly puzzled that while everybody quite rightly decries what happened in the Grace case and we have had statements from the Taoiseach and Tánaiste saying that this will never happen again, it is happening right now to Caitlin and Louise.

I am receiving correspondence from Caitlin's mom, Louise Hassan, that leaves me gravely concerned about her and Caitlin's welfare. The Minister for Health has not attended the Commencement matter that I have raised. The Minister of State, Deputy Grealish, who was the last Minister to attend, came here in good faith and in good offices. Since raising this issue with people who are deputised to come in here, there has been no change in the attitude of the HSE and Avista. In fact, they have doubled down and are more hostile and adversarial to Louise and Caitlin at this very sensitive moment. I do not know how to address this further. Could we have a debate in the Chamber about safeguarding so that we could get the Minister in here to address this because this is the Grace case happening again in real time?