Speeches: 19 March 2026

We have to fight very, very hard to protect public service broadcasting because we have far more influence and say over what RTE does than we have over what Rupert Murdoch does, or over what Elon Musk does, or over what Bill Gates does, or any of these characters.

Tánaiste, children with special needs, just like every child, have a right to an appropriate education.

I would feel there is insufficient consultation between the representative association and the Defence Force Management given the nature and scale and complexity of the transformation needed, and that has to be genuine consultation as is clearly understood in all industries and companies what consultation means.

I believe that any sort of sexual assault, any sort of sexual violence, anything of that nature that happens in any organisation needs to be stamped out and stamped out quickly.

People are going cold in their own homes.

So we have sent the finalised regulations for screening now at the moment and once the screening is back we'll bring it before the Joint Oireachtas Committee.

This isn't about votes or politics. This is about a person, a human being with young kids, seven and eight, that we want to see a future that makes them better, that gets what they require and what they need.

You know, as well as I know, that we need a live export trade.

Every child deserves not just a place, but an appropriate place.

I would like to condemn this as a dangerous development.

It is harrowing to deal with those children that have been left to fend for themselves in a country and in a strange place where they know nobody and the howls and the cries of those children no person should have to hear.

There's an oligopoly at the heart of European fisheries.

This is effectively the State siding with the landlord in this.

Can I take it that the answer to the question then is effectively no, you don't guard it.

Your government's hands-off approach to the energy crisis is callous and cruel.

This is a real opportunity for farmers, a real opportunity for jobs.

What I really want to say in the context of what this bill is doing is it's hugely important for us to acknowledge how lucky we are to have a functional fair and and generally unbiased media.