Speeches: 27 May 2026

Until we know what the actual aim is, how can we procure it?

The reason why the cold stores are full is because there's no demand in the market at the moment at an appropriate price.

I just want the people to understand the pressure that's out there at the moment, the human mental pressure that this is causing to people.

You're missing emission targets and ripping up climate protections. It's a famine of ambition.

For a few million, we could save the complex, and we could get social and affordable housing on top of it, it's win‑win for the city, for culture, for arts, for music, for everybody, why wouldn't the government do it?

How can you be sure that the conditions, in terms of conditions as somebody who works there, that pertain in the Technological Universities in the south, will be protected now that you're an employee, or are you an employee of Queen's University?

So the idea that 60 million might go out for a private ice rink in Cherrywood when there's clubs desperate for stuff, and I can't even get a straight answer how much have they asked for, so could somebody please tell us how much was asked for?

I wish I could say the same, but no, I'm very positively disposed to this legislation.

But the greatest sin of all was to break the link from their brothers and sisters.

The ask is clear, restore the cap to at least 433 billion.

In large part, the issue that we face in the sector is one where the supply chain is not functioning.

The deemed disposal rule effectively decreases the amount of money that people are accumulating over the life of their investment and it's actually also destroying value.

Will you just cop on in relation to all of these schemes and in relation to what planning needs to be done?

Good politics is rarely loud politics. Good politics is serious, practical, evidence-based.

I fully support the development of the critical care unit at the Rotunda, it's a secondary referral hospital, it's critical that we have a specialist referral hospital for many parts of the country.

63% to me is a failure in this day and age.

Our responsibility is to ensure that in a rapidly changing world where someone is born should never determine whether they can adapt, succeed or contribute.

Our beef exports are way, way, way down.

To support those affected by the energy price spikes we have introduced a 750 million euro package worth of supports one of the largest packages across the European Union.

They recovered 37 billion out of 74.4 billion euro in book value on the loans and that's happened at a time when the market has fully recovered.

We need an emergency cost-of-living package, we need an emergency budget and it cannot be held back any longer.

We cannot leave people behind. We have to ensure that people are upskilled, educated and given every opportunity to succeed going forward.

I'll continue to advocate to keep this infringement procedure open, to hold the government to account and to ensure it doesn't happen.

We should be consistent and not switch for selective reasons based, dare I say, on the ethnicity of the victim and the accused.

Colleagues, my concern is not with any one measure in isolation, but it is a broader trajectory - a trajectory where, step by step, decisions are taken that reshape our economy, our sovereignty and our policy space, often without sufficient alignment to Ireland's long-term interests.

When they bring their cattle to the factory gates they're going to make a loss.

We had the cheapest electricity in Europe. Today we have the most expensive electricity in Europe and we have a failure not only in terms of how you privatized what was a proud publicly owned amenity but then in terms of wind energy.

Can you tell me how it is appropriate in any way that this type of money is blown on luxury limos?

In last October's budget of 9.4 billion euros, you made the very cruel decision to leave disabled people worse off by 1,400 euros.

There's a social contract with the people, and that's been shattered, utterly shattered.

Conor D McGuinness: speech from 27 May 2026 Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024

I still think it's a scandal that it is easier for a young person to access pornography online than it is for them to buy a pair of shoes or to gamble or to buy vapes, all of which would require the use of a credit card.

The Right to Stay, from a European perspective, is a combination of the economic and political decisions that allow people to remain working in their community by their choice.

If the meat coming into your school is Irish beef, there is no issue with regard to the health and safety of it.

Instead of the Ireland for the rich that we currently have, we need an Ireland where people come before profit.

I'm also hearing that there is a mad rush on a Friday evening to go around and collect up meat.

Employers pay the full 1% levy in good faith, yet this money sits unused rather than reaching the front line.

They actually took up to 1400 euro off disabled people, a cruel cruel unnecessary decision in a country with a lot of resources.

If you keep doing the same thing over and over again and there's no difference, if there's no change to it, it is a form of madness.

It will be a design build on budget, on time.

There should be a full inquiry into your government departments on misuse of funding.

It is the case, I don't know how they measure these things, but according to all stated metrics, that about 70% of the decisions that impact on our lives on a daily basis here in Ireland have their genesis or their origin in Europe.

Parents who have been waiting and waiting for therapies for their children are justifiably angry and extremely frustrated at the lack of timely supports and interventions.

We need a democratic, left, republican Budget this year.

The central premise underlying these amendments, that NAMA's performance can be assessed by comparing disposal values with subsequent valuations or by assuming assets could simply have been held for longer, is not well founded.

My number one priority is ensuring that at least eight to ten percent at least of the future CAP budget for young farmers is binding and not merely aspirational as it is currently proposed by the commission.

This is not a minor administrative correction this is life-changing communication issued by the state and the body that withdrawed this decision on the same day.