I raise two issues. First, I thank the Leader's office for arranging and facilitating statements on HIQA in relation to the review of HSE Mid West. I took the time to search how many times this issue was raised in the Seanad. It was raised loads of times. How many parliamentary questions were there in the Dáil? There were many of them. I encourage and hope that we will have good attendance this afternoon. There have been many demands for engagement and for statements from the Minister on this very important subject related to the mid-west and the various options this report is recommending. I will not go into too much detail but clearly there are options A, B and C set out in the executive summary of this report. We will have time to tease it out with the Minister. I understand the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, will be here and I look forward to engaging. I appeal to Members maybe listening in at committees this morning that if they can make it to Seanad Éireann to engage in this debate at 11.45 a.m., it would be worth participating and I hope many people will come.

I will also flag something else. Mental Health Reform has been in touch with all of the Senators and TDs in these Houses on its key recommendations in respect of the Mental Health Bill. Tomorrow is the deadline for the first amendments in this House. Mental Health Reform has raised some very serious issues. It is a strong advocate. It is easy to tell an advocacy group that something is not consistent with our belief on mental health. I am reliably informed that the Minister will be proposing amendments to her own Bill in this House. Some of the Members should revisit that today, if possible. We have until tomorrow to submit amendments and we will have time to engage with the Minister next week. It is important that we use this House. We are a revising Chamber. We are not supposed to rubber-stamp all legislation that comes from the Government. We would be foolish to think that. It would not be right. We are a bicameral Parliament. Our function is to revise legislation. I hope we will see some amendments to this important legislation, the Mental Health Bill, which is tabled for debate in this House next week.

I welcome Deputy Eoin Hayes and his guests to the Gallery today. I hope they enjoy their visit to Leinster House.

I agree wholeheartedly with Senator Boyhan regarding the Minister's attendance here to discuss HIQA. The mid-west and the situation at the hospital in Limerick have been at the top of all representatives' agendas for some time now. Along with me and others, the Leas-Chathaoirleach has been to the fore in this regard. I hope we will see good attendance. I thank the Leader's office for facilitating and organising that debate. We finally have a roadmap to increased capacity in the mid-west. That is very welcome. I am very keen to hear what the Minister and my colleagues have to say.

I would like to have a debate in the House at some stage on the winter readiness programme and being weather-ready. We have seen very inclement weather recently. Over the last number of years, incidents of inclement weather have been much more significant than they previously were. We all need to improve our knowledge in terms of the readiness programme. We all need to understand more about the warnings and the methodology behind them. The localised nature of recent warnings is very welcome. If they can be localised even further, we need to do that. The technology is there. Met Éireann is at the cutting edge when it comes to embracing and adopting new technology. That is very welcome. Even the Met Éireann graphics on television have improved dramatically and create a more localised understanding. The emergency section is based in the Department of agriculture's building but it is managed by the Department of housing. I request that the Deputy Leader put in train a debate, statements or a discussion on this at her convenience so that we can all improve our understanding of the issue.