Speeches: 6 May 2026

If a person comes out to engage with you, and in his back pocket he has a CPO, that engagement is futile from day one as far as I'm concerned.

Things are very serious. They're very serious for the many, many thousands of families and households now in arrears on their energy bills.

This government betrayed hundreds of thousands of pensioners in this country and sabotaged the democracy of this House by refusing to issue the money message for the Retired Workers Bill.

The hypocrisy and double standards are staggering.

The compulsory purchase is not, should not be used for recreation greenways across private or family farmlands.

What the department will not stand over is the reduction in the number of homes.

The state has a duty of care to survivors like Larry, like Keenan, like Jared, like Peter, like Ian and many more like them.

When that day comes, when the war finally ends, it's vitally important that preparations have been made and mechanisms put in place to ensure that Russia can be held to account for its actions.

The government has the resources to act, it is just choosing not to.

Our commitment is to ensure that a process that recognises the suffering experienced, honours the voices of victims and survivors and seeks a path towards truth and healing.

The one message I'm getting loud and clear is that greenways must be developed in conjunction and in consultation with landowners across the way.

I will never agree where a CPO is put in place for an immunity, and no one should agree with that, if they have any understanding, because this has led to mental health issues, massive crisis in families, farms being cut in two, whatever.

Maybe the time has come for men to take a more proactive approach when it comes to domestic violence.

Sexual health isn't something that should be hidden away, this is part of your everyday life, it's part of you as a human person.

Personal assistance was about enabling the person living with disability to live a full life in every aspect and at their desire, rather than something that was imposed, a structure that was imposed upon them.

How we've moved to a situation which is a public health game changer in terms of prevention of HIV, the treatment of HIV, and the management of that condition, and I think we need to recognise how groundbreaking that is as well.

I think the regulatory sandbox is going to be really really important for SMEs but also enterprise in general.

I am outraged at the disastrous way that you have handled this housing crisis.

Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael have never given a damn about working-class people.

The CPO should have been the last resort.

This is a failure of governance, planning and prioritisation.

This simply cannot be a talking shop and it simply has to succeed in improving the collective bargaining coverage across the state.

What are you waiting for? How bad do things have to get before you wake up and act?

The numbers are just simply scary and you know it's not possible to operate a safe police presence and policing situation on the numbers that we have and this has gone on for a number of years.

We owe it to the victims, we owe it to those wee children to see this through fully, properly and without delay.

It is outrageous that people who are living in such poor conditions have been asked to, are being forced to, are being compelled to pay even more in rent.

That is not climate leadership, Taoiseach.

If this is successfully taken up by a large fraction of the population, they will be able to have tens of thousands of euro from engaging in the financial markets that they would not otherwise have, be that at retirement, or be that to help kids go through college, or whatever it is.

Women in crisis should not have to travel long distances across county boundaries or face uncertainty at the very moment they are seeking safe shelter.

The situation in the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise is like a pressure cooker.

We can't have tenants paying the highest rents in the worst accommodation with the most expensive electricity.