Speeches: 18 June 2026

I personally find that deeply concerning that here we are a number of months after the completed a year ago, essentially, the investigation and the department still hasn't had sight of a full report.

How is it fair if somebody makes an appeal on a decision for them not to be able to bring new information forward which establishes that they were eligible?

We've got to trust schools, just trust schools.

The idea that the same body that makes a decision on eligibility for social housing or aspects of social housing support or emergency accommodation will also handle appeals, it's just ridiculous, right?

I mean that's just it's like it's reasons to say no rather than reasons to give a fair adjudication of the application and I don't see how it can possibly be fair

We've really got to always get onto the bonnet to the finances.

Living with rare diseases, that means working to support earlier diagnosis, better coordinated care, appropriate access to treatment and stronger patient partnership.

Would you have a view on what advice you would give us, or do you think it's, if you like, a sustainable position to hold the presidency of the EU, to support Ukraine, and yet at the same time to provide one of the foundational metals of missile technology to Putin's war machine?

For those diagnosed with this devastating rare condition, this drug represents far more than another medicine.

I think that what the practice showed that we should have had a plan B, a contingency plan.

We cannot imagine unless we walk in their shoes.

A ban on no-fault evictions would provide people in housing difficulty with the safety net that they need.

But what must happen immediately is scramblers must be stopped because I fear there could be another tragedy.

I'm deeply worried about this because it's exactly what many of us who supported the Eighth Amendment feared and warned about, that once this issue of abortion was taken out of the Constitution and put into statute we would see a slow continual group and erosion of any safeguards or measures to reduce abortion and find ourselves on a slippery slope towards total unlimited abortion access.

It penalises families simply based on the legal mechanism the council used to acquire the land, the bricks and the mortar.

I believe that there is scope within what you are doing with this wage subsidy scheme to improve it, to include others and to encourage employers to participate more fully.

Disabled people cannot be asked to wait again for another budget.

We need a very different sort of pharmaceutical sector run in public ownership and in the public interest.

The aim here is to try to as far as possible protect the learners, and see what can be done as far as possible for the staff.

We're in a deep climate crisis and we are missing our sectoral emissions targets in terms of transport as well as our targets as a whole by a very wide margin.

They deserve better, they deserve action, and they deserve it now.

Tánaiste, the whole point of the public-only contract is to improve our health system and level up care for public patients so they're receiving the same continuity and quality of care as private patients.

I think you are misleading the House and you're misleading the public when you try and link the refusal to bring forward the funding for this project as a matter of urgency to the infrastructural provision elsewhere in the system.

We have the highest level of evictions since the famine and your government has the power to do something about it.

So will you get the checkbook out? And will you make sure that we get those pieces of infrastructure that we need?

Turkey does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus, so there are absolutely no connections and coordination or discussions with the Turkish government at any level, at any point, only through the UN.

The opening of the negotiations with Ukraine has a significant, a huge significant geopolitical sense for the reasons we all know, so this should not be undermined.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends in large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Families should not have to watch their children lose abilities while waiting for access for treatment that already exists.