Speeches: 30 April 2026

Local Hauliers are the backbone of Ireland's supply chains, day in, day out.

But it's a delay to the treatment of the children of Ireland.

So the workers are subsidising the obscene profits of the rich, the obscene lifestyles of the rich.

This kind of rework gives rise to delay, which unfortunately is delaying the time when our Irish children can be treated in this hospital.

Energy poverty is not a theory. It is a reality in kitchens and sitting rooms across the country today.

If a contract has been awarded, it's no longer commercially sensitive, in the sense that all you're putting on the system is the actual amount, you're not putting in the commercial pricing methodology of the contract.

It is your duty to make colleges safe and to have good procedures and practices by authorities as well.

Because if we don't, then we've built a dependency that we are putting at risk our sovereign state.

This is a political choice and it's your choice.

Would you suggest then that the statement from BAM yesterday is misrepresentative of the current situation?

It is by the grace of God that this child, or no other child in the vicinity, was killed.

When is the contractor going to hand over this building to the people of Ireland?

Clearly a lot of stepping up by parenting needs to be done in the country.

I spoke to a woman recently who received three, penalty notices, so nine points in the space of a week as a result of the poor and inadequate signage.

In the end the school had to submit its appeal without any access to the rationale that they were encouraged by the very same NCSE to acquire, to submit the appeal.

If we are serious about food security, livestock must remain central to our system.

Why on earth are we taking buses, regardless of what fuel they are, why are we taking them out of the fleet when we should be adding capacity, regardless of what fuel they are at this stage, it's much better for people to be in public transport rather than in fleet.

The only way to give people security on the one hand and to cut across the profiteering that we're seeing... the only way is to do these price controls.

Our aim in the longer term is to repatriate all spinal surgery to CHI and CAPA.

So today, Tánaiste, I call on you, the Taoiseach and the Minister for Foreign Affairs to follow Poland's lead immediately.

It does appear at times, with the direction that this government is going in, I feel at times that those who work the hardest are punished the greatest.

You just cannot trust social media companies they need to be held to account it's through regulations and relief you know it's it's fines big fines and nothing else is gonna make a difference to them

And then we ask all of those probing questions: what is it you're buying, why are you buying it, what's the strategy, what will be the ongoing operating costs and what is it supposed to do?

So what I'm asking you is, the reason I'm raising it with you is that we seem to be getting nowhere with this over the years.