Speeches: 10 June 2026

All I just want to say is, in fairness to everybody in the department, you got us 85, well we have 85 million, please don't send any of it back, all I'd ask you, will you give all of the 85 million out, it's badly wanted, that's all I'd ask, badly badly wanted.

The details set out in the report are nothing short of horrendous. So many young lives destroyed by his vile and heinous crimes.

I would be concerned it does, because to my mind Irish neutrality should be about doing the opposite to promoting the arms industry.

So that looks like a change, that looks like a change to me, and it looks like a change prompted by the fact that suddenly you or your department becomes alarmed about the uses to which the Israeli military are putting exports from this country.

What Israel is doing to Palestinian children is the very antithesis of what football is about because it is ugly, it is murderous and it is genocidal and a very very significant part of Israel's long-standing, decades long-standing genocidal campaign against the Palestinians is their desire to murder Palestinian children, including the children who play football.

I'm simply pointing out lines can be blurry.

I'm more concerned than ever that you're reducing oversight in the area of where money has been going and the possibility that that money could end up at companies who are promoting the military sector and where those who might, the end user of some of these exports might be people who are engaged in violations of human rights or the Commission of War Crimes or Crimes Against Humanity.

Impose sanctions all across the board against the Israeli regime not just on the Occupied Territories but for the entire regime.

Private land only by genuine voluntary agreement.

If we're going to have a consultation, it has to be meaningful.

So I want to thank you very much for the clarity in relation to those matters here today.

I think the Code of Practice is fundamental.

The state which should be there to help them is actually making their lives harder and pushing an increasing number of carers into poverty.

If trading in goods from illegal settlements is wrong, why is the provision of services to those same settlements acceptable?

The third piece is that I will just say that the bad guy gets a voice too.

There's no controls over what they get from Horizon Funding that should be going to other countries.

If we're to be serious about growing tourism, then we must be serious about the connectivity and the infrastructure that's needed in order to be able to get ... to maximise the outcomes that we get from the money that's invested in tourism.

So the first question we beg for me is why do we need to insert subsidies into that space when there's so much money already there?

It's shocking and disgraceful the handling of this issue by your government shoehorning that issue into 12 or 13 other, squeezing it in with so many other issues into a new bill.

The other thing is, from the attack perspective, have we got the capacity to be offensive as well as defensive when it comes to cyber attacks?

I contend that the Air Navigation Amendment Bill is, in its current form, both populist in concept and unworkable in practice.

This genocide is not hidden from us, it is unfolding in front of us in real time, before the eyes of the world.

In Ireland we are just sorely deficient in policy and planning and human, physical and infrastructural systems and we really do need to take this seriously with this impending tsunami of ageing.

we're going to look back in history we're going to say we did a great job with the Wild Atlantic Way but the best castle on the route was closed.

Public consultations, to me, are just a tick box.

Michael Fitzmaurice asks questions in a parliamentary exchange on the Agriculture Fuel Support Scheme, hears the 20 cent per litre figure was indicative and payments are expected in weeks. He finds out how the average €6.50 per farmer was calculated.

Now do the one thing, the one thing that is in front of you, stop the game.

The game should not go ahead whether in Dublin, Hungary or anywhere else.

People's property, whether it is a house or whether it is land, it is theirs, and they must be treated with respect.

I feel my credibility is being undermined by this kind of a carry-on.

I think that the person that owns a house it should be his decision and not the government's decision that he use it whichever way he wanted.

There are thousands of supporters at home in Kerry and they're actually outraged that they won't be able to see the match in any screen of any kind.

For the government to pass legislation that it does not believe is fully compliant with its obligations would be deeply regrettable.

Unless the government takes seriously coordinated action to align skills with future jobs, to reduce our over-reliance on multinationals and to ensure that people can live and work in a more sustainable way, we will not be able to do that.

Tourism is not an optional extra it is the cornerstone of our prosperity.

€52,000 is just unacceptable.

Passing the Occupied Territories Bill in full with services included is the minimum moral response required of a country that claims to stand for justice.

We commit to doing a good job for the European Union and its citizens, and we will work throughout our term to make the Union more prosperous and more secure, and to uphold our shared fundamental values.

Nobody has the right to spread fear, to intimidate, to terrify innocent families.

The two-state solution is the only viable long-term solution.

Mattie McGrath thanked Minister Burke for a recent visit to the Old Bulmers site and urged its development into a significant tourist attraction. He detailed the cultural and tourism assets across Tipperary - from local festivals and community groups to castles and trails - and called for better connectivity and investment. McGrath also sharply criticised the government's handling of short-term lets, saying the current rules leave small rural hosts in limbo and demand urgent clarification.

Why are people inventing and deliberately misinforming people?

Unregulated, uninsured, high-speed racing on public roads, often alongside moving traffic, it is reckless and it is unsafe, and it is horribly cruel to the horses.

The introduction of the DEIS Plus represents the most significant expansion of targeted educational support since the establishment of the DEIS programme.

These people who are at the top of society, who are some rich and powerful people, are happy to see people divided, to see hate and division spread in order to distract from their own failures that people in our society are paying for.

It is utterly disgraceful to prioritise relations with Donald Trump, with US imperialism over standing up against genocide and standing up against apartheid.

We can't kill the golden goose.

I'm happy to speak on the critical importance of tourism and the hospitality sector, particularly as we face mounting challenges that threaten thousands of jobs and the viability of businesses right across rural Ireland.

We cannot rewrite history but we can try to undo the pain and hardship that those convictions inflicted upon so many men and their families.

But I do not believe that young athletics and young athletes should be asked to carry the burden of resolving geopolitical conflicts that they did not create.

When I was elected first to the Dáil in 1992, I don't think I envisaged at that time that we'd be talking in an Oireachtas education committee about an all-Ireland university.

One of our primary roles is to defend people against cyber aggression, to deal with cyber risk.

We should ban all goods and services from the occupied territories.

Israel is not a normal state, Israel is a terrorist state, and should be treated as such.

There is no doubt but that this legislation is entirely morally justified and important from the point of view of the principle that is at stake.