Speeches: 14 May 2026

Discourse around migration must be rooted in facts, in humanity, in respect.

So, it's all coming from government funding, am I correct in saying that?

It has revealed itself in the last three years as a depraved murder machine hell bent on a genocidal campaign of annihilation and mass murder against the Palestinian people.

What it proves, if I'm right, is that this government absolutely cannot be trusted with Irish neutrality, cannot be trusted not to engage in war profiteering or, even worse, cannot be trusted not to actively be complicit with genocidal crimes being committed by people like the Israeli state.

If we continue to treat them as a normal state, why would they stop?

It is collaboration that is going to make this country go forward.

We don't know the threat actor, but we saw where some money went and we managed to get some of it back.

A tax system should reward ambition, not penalise it, making work pay, not making people question whether it's worth it.

The least we can expect is proper, compassionate care for that young man and care of his parents as well because they are part of the equation.

It's clear that the most important line in this report is that we need a stand-alone adult safeguarding authority.

This Private Members' Bill would amount to a full economic boycott of Israel.

From bike sheds to IT projects, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are serial wasters of the public's money.

Figures published today are a devastating indictment on your government's housing policy.

What we've bought is time.

Time Europe wakes up, time our MEPs start shouting, and time that our government starts standing up for the people in this country.

So there's a real risk that Irish organic farmers, whose livelihoods depend on keeping their crops entirely NGT-free, will actually be contaminated, because trace amounts of windblown NGT can lose organic certification.

It says that Ireland won't allow our money, our trade, our country that we generate to fuel something that the world knows is wrong.

It is not transparency that creates danger. It is the lack of it, and it is chaos.

The CDNTs in Wexford are in chaos as a result of the lack of staff and full teams available and children and their families are really, really suffering.

Legislation has to be robust and transparent.

Palestine will not be pushed aside and it will not be forgotten.

I think they need to reflect on that, and I think both this Oireachtas and the government should consider how to ensure that, because this isn't about us, it's about the people we serve.

I think HVO offers an immediate and a practical pathway to lower their emissions without any new vehicles or infrastructure.

How are people meant to be able to afford massive increases in their rents at a time of a cost of living crisis?

If you know that Israel is committing genocide and you oppose bills that are proposed to try and put pressure on Israel to stop the genocide that is ongoing, what does that make you? It makes you complicit in genocide.

This failure to deliver, it's not abstract. It's felt by ordinary people every time they're hit with a bill.

As we're in the House here today and it's been discussed by members on both sides, we are now the most expensive energy market in the European Union.

The truth is that anyone still genuinely suffering long COVID should not be stopped on the 1st of June from receiving full sick pay as was.

Genocide is happening as we speak, has been happening for a long time and there's been no action, no proper action in which the Israeli state will pay heed to.

I have no doubt that you have mothballed that legislation.