Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I hoped to get this question in when the Minister for Justice and Equality was beside the Taoiseach. I wish to return to the issue of the Istanbul Convention, about which the Minister has spoken frequently. One wonders, given the current speculation about an early general election, whether the Taoiseach can state emphatically that the Government will sign the Istanbul Convention and bring it into effect.

We read in the press that there are suggestions that many Government Departments may require Supplementary Estimates. I refer to Tusla. Throughout the country, family refuges are suffering enormously because of inadequate funding. In my constituency, a project built using heavy capital investment is not fully open - two apartments remain closed because of a lack of funding.

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