Speeches: 26 May 2026

Multi-billion euro corporations led by Trumpian cheerleaders in Silicon Valley are using AI as cover for years of over hiring and for ruthless cost-cutting.

I am now getting people coming in who can't pay their rent, their council tenants who can't pay their rent and who can't pay their bills on a level I haven't seen before.

It's completely unfair, it's a stealth caught by the government in terms of the real housing need in this country, massaging the figures, and it's perverse because if you actually get a social home, or indeed if you're in a HAP tenancy, when your income goes up, you don't get evicted, you just pay more rent.

So will you stop the hypocrisy and actually bring forward a bill that imposes serious sanctions on Israel for its criminal violations of genocide and apartheid.

Taoiseach, on the 13th of May, the Independent Newspaper reported that DLR Properties, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, but which, incredibly, councillors have no control over and no say over whatsoever, put up for sale land in Cherrywood which is zoned for more than 1,000 units of housing to be sold on the private market.

So you're not serious about ending potential complicity of this country with the genocidal power being imposed on the Palestinians.

Student accommodation crisis is now a major barrier for some to access higher education, primarily driven by the severe supply shortage of accommodation, tied in with exorbitant rents and precarious living conditions.

The key ask is that the citizen needs to be confident in Tailte Éireann capacity to provide an authoritative land and property database and systems in a timely manner.

Unless we measure this, and we set targets for all our local authorities, it's simply not going to happen.

Because a stable, secure home is the foundation for a happy life and that basic building block is missing for 17,500 people.

Our collaboration has grown into a really warm and constructive partnership and we've quite a lot of work to do and have been able to progress some things together.

At a time when many thought it was impossible, Monsignor James Horne showed extraordinary vision and determination to make Knock Airport a reality.

Yet we're quite happy to allow the English King, the President of the United States, the President of France and the President of Russia decide where we will send our troops.

This nonsense has to stop. It really does.

This is an act of solidarity with the people of Palestine in the face of the brutal genocide that they have encountered and occurred and it's Ireland speaking to our values and also speaking in support of the work of the ICJ.

This extraordinary delay Minister has left disabled persons with a totally inadequate standard of living.

What these amendments seek to do is to not block investigations but to ensure that when the State interferes with journalistic material, it does so in a way that is careful, proportionate and consistent with long-established constitutional and European principles.

One of the survivors said today they feel from the State, it's, we're sorry, but we're not that sorry.

The focus remains on speeding up delivery of key water, energy, housing, infrastructure and public transport.

Ireland must be on the right side of history.

When are you honestly going to accept that your approach to housing is driving crisis after crisis and where will you have the honesty and the integrity to accept that and to change course?

What are you going to do to stop pollution from agriculture, devastating more of our lakes, like what has happened in Lough Neagh and Ladies Island?

It's going to be a disaster for workers who have built their lives around the fact that they live near where they work and it's going to result in massively worsened postal services because the letters and packets will get stuck on the M50, the routes won't get finished and then potentially people will have to go all the way to Lucan to pick up their packages.

Children in Offaly and Laois with special needs are being neglected in terms of the lack of access to therapy.

It was like they were trying to engineer a particular sample for a predetermined headline, such as 50% of HGV drivers are breaking the law.

So Minister, I would actually look at common sense, simplify things.

Why are you taking extra tax on an increased cost, which is putting more burden on everything in this country?

So to hold a review conference cannot be blocked and it's not subject to a veto, it's a procedural resolution.

People with disabilities are not disabled by their own bodies or by their intellectual capacity.

I believe that we should undertake comprehensive studies to identify the challenges but also the opportunities to ensure that our central border region is not disadvantaged.

So people are going to the accident and emergency unit for treatment.

A year has passed, these children are losing time and time is muscle so I'll move on.