Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Mac Lochlainn raised the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, but that was debated two weeks ago. I am sure that there will be no shortage of opportunities in committees to allow us to go into the real detail of the CAP agreement, which does need to be examined and questioned. Regarding Deputies Boyd Barrett and Cian O'Callaghan and the Land Development Agency Bill 2021, I am glad there was extensive discussion on Committee Stage. Returning to Leader's Questions earlier, we were talking about the fact that we have a housing crisis. One of the key solutions to it, to my mind, is going to be the Land Development Agency, and that does drive the need for that agency to be legislated for before the summer recess to enable us to start getting that body to build houses. There is a housing crisis that necessitates the need for such urgency.

Turning to Deputy Duncan Smith and the timing of business on Wednesday, the Deputy will know that we have to do that to consolidate votes on that day. It is the ordering and it is in keeping with our measures in respect of Covid-19, which require us to order our business in an unusual way but one that is for our own health and safety. Similarly, Deputy McNamara will, I am sure, know that it has been the services department making the assessment in this regard, and, by and large, it has done a very good job. We have not had significant incidents of transmission within the Oireachtas. That is an important symbol of how as a country we have-----

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