Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I want to raise three items. First, where is the legislation to deal with the problem of upward-only rents? Second, with regard to the recent debacle over the concert that was to be held in Dublin, Ministers have said that legislation is promised to deal with concerts held in the future. When will that legislation come before the House? Is work being done on it? Third, referring to the programme for Government, any person who needed to stay overnight in an acute hospital will have seen the massive numbers of people waiting on trolleys in the accident and emergency department. Where are the Government's proposals to deal with that very serious problem? The staff are working in a tremendously pressurised environment trying to deal with patients lying on trolleys overnight. That is wrong. The Government promised in the programme for Government that it would bring an end to that. What is it doing about it? What will the new Minister for Health do about it? I ask the Taoiseach to clarify that very important issue.

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