Speeches: 18 March 2026

Instead of performative deportations and draconian legislation on immigration, let's see your government now embrace this campaign, challenge the pernicious far-right rhetoric on migration, show solidarity and leadership with our new communities.

I certainly wouldn't stand beside a warmonger like Trump who is ripping up the international legal rulebook to pursue a bloody and murderous war against Iran and is cooperating with Israel who are in the dock for genocide and are bombing the hell out of Lebanon.

We're all paying, everybody's paying for Trump's war now.

I'll be joining that protest and to listen to their protests and acknowledge their concerns.

I support the principle of the bill.

But I would ask you, Minister, please do not use the might of the power that is in your hands to guillotine a very important piece of legislation.

I think it's a very proud day for Ireland that the market has been expanded with the help and the assistance of Tesco.

Can you imagine how empty the apology to Mother and Baby Homes survivors must feel when five years later, planning permission has somehow been granted to build apartments on a mass grave?

Higher fuel costs aren't an accident, they're government policy.

The place of women is not on the margins of our society, it is at the very heart of decision-making leadership and nation-building.

No one should be forced to choose between heating their home and meeting other essential expenses.

We have had an underinvestment in digitalisation, particularly in community services.

I still can't understand that if we don't have treatment available in this country that as European citizens you don't have the right to obtain that treatment in another European Union country.

The solution is actually sitting in front of you, so it's time for the government now to read that, to speak to the individuals who know about it and take action.

This is a system that's absolutely chaotic, and there are families at the receiving end of this.

Because people can't wait any longer for the government who's dithering and delaying.

Ireland's equality journey really is only getting started and we have so much yet to achieve to ensure that people feel equal in this society and ultimately are equal in reality

We'll act in a manner that's fair, responsible and we will conclude our proposals in the coming days.

Every man and woman with a wheel and an engine is affected by the extra cost now.

I'm asking you to give it back at the pump where the people are paying for it.

And, like, that to me is not transparency, you know, it's not very clear for an applicant that's spending money and holding up a job, and a job that he wants to badly do to help the environment and everything like that.

Sovereignty must be stated explicitly, because the Bill places Ireland into an inflexible, majority-driven EU migration system.

The pact actually means in practice that Ireland, with limited infrastructure, a distinct common travel area, and housing systems already under strain, will now be expected to take annual allocations calculated not on our real capacity, but on the distorted GDP numbers and the overwhelming pressures across the continent.

This is just one example of a dysfunctional, crazy system that serves nobody Minister.

So the question is how bad do things have to get before your government helps?

That failure to inform them has cost them real money, and it's money that would have made a real difference in their lives up until now, and that could, if this is resolved, make a very real difference to their lives.

Their lives are being stolen from them, and they are turning to the system which it seems turns against them.

Like the big tech companies, the depraved billionaires who profit from these toxic algorithms, the only value system that the manfluencers have is money.

Put people first, not the profit of corporations.

The government will be bringing forward targeted time-bound measures that will help households and that will help businesses and that will be done next week.

So when we talk about women's rights we have to talk about rights that are real, that actually make a real difference in the lives of working women and therefore in their families and therefore in our society.

Ultimately decarbonising our energy system is the best way to secure energy independence and reduce costs for families.

we have substantial investment in the infrastructure, but we don't have it in the personnel or ongoing stability and permanency for key researchers and other people working in that particular area.

Truckers and hauliers are under severe pressure and need assistance to get through the current crisis.

It's nothing short of inhuman what happened, and we must never allow ourselves to go back anywhere into a situation like that again.

Over 700 euros of difference in just 18 days. It's scandalous and no family can afford this.