Speeches: 17 June 2026

Opting into this measure in relation to firearms trafficking provides an important opportunity for Ireland to reiterate our commitment to the importance of tackling illicit firearms, the trafficking of which poses a serious threat to both our own and our European neighbours' security and beyond.

The government is fully committed to delivering Ireland's climate ambition across all sectors and to progressing climate action in a planned and coherent way.

What's preventing women from getting the care they need is political squeamishness and cowardice, a residual, insulting, patriarchal mistrust of women that forms the basis of the mandatory three-day wait and government's unwillingness to engage with the evidence that other change is needed.

And I would ask you again Taoiseach, that you and indeed Minister O'Callaghan might consider meeting Lisa Phillips on her next visit to Ireland.

It's an absolute scandal that we have tens of thousands of vacant properties in this country while people are facing homelessness and the effects of the housing crisis.

So let's work together constructively to see if we can take it an hour or two earlier.

I think you should consider looking at the model of veterinary technicians.

Data centres and EU AI policy must not jeopardise our electrification goals.

Nearly half of our rivers are ecologically unhealthy. They are dying and so are all of the wildlife and biodiversity in them.

These motions have now become a rubber stamping exercise that have become the hallmark of how Minister O'Callaghan approaches this.

If I had signed a contract in 2023 that had a specific salary and specific working hours and I had in the period the following two or three years never been asked to work those hours, I would have been going sorry, when am I working on Saturday?

I want to establish our own HSE agency.

I do not want the idea that there is somebody working in the HSE who is also employed in the HSE but through a third party agent.

If we keep throwing money at this system, we will not get the commensurate productivity because it is simply not fit for purpose.

We used to have the lowest electricity price in the EU and now we have the highest and Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael have presided over this change.

This isn't a summer camp, it's not a luxury, it's a really valuable educational programme and it really is an essential support for parents.

And what you did to people with disability, by leaving them €1,400 worse off, was disgraceful.

It's not acceptable that it does not exist in our toolbox that we can deliver energy credits to families, and that it is an ability between the department and the CRU to actually target them at whatever level that we agree.

Unless you have a separate body or something, you're not going to get changed, that's the reality in Ireland.

I think you should go in and rebrand all this to a veterinary technician.

We have to put our surplus into a short-term, what I would call a wartime effort.

I'm very concerned that we could in some way hurt the users of illegal goons held in the rural countryside for the protection of their firearms and indeed of their livelihoods.

I honestly say that no human being here can have any effect in changing the climate, and never will.

that's why I say this motion is mad, it makes no sense.

In light of Grace's heartbreaking death and the clear international evidence, I'm calling on the Minister to commission an independent national report into the mental health and mortality outcomes of parents whose children are removed into state care.

We now have over 22% of our electricity consumed by data centres and this is projected to rise to 30% by 2030 and potentially an unbelievable 55% if growth continues unchecked.

Please can you tell them today that you will establish a public inquiry.

When the UN is warning us, something must be amiss.

Without any proper legal scrutiny or any impact analysis, you know, none of us can say there's not a huge problem with gun crime.

I cannot support a law that could be used to send families, including young children, to return hubs.

A giant empty box is coming for your job and the government calls it progress.

We need to put the brakes on the development of data centres, at least until our grid capacity increases and household bills come down.

This Directive is about criminal law harmonisation and not about the lawful, responsible and highly regulated community of licensed firearms holders in this state.

I wish to raise serious concerns again about the dental system and the total collapse in terms of dental services for medical card patients.

Climate change is real, it's happening now, the science is indisputable, but climate action is critically important to counter that, but not only just to counter climate change, but it affords us great opportunities here.

Taoiseach, it's time to scrap the TV licence.

This creates difficulties in attempting to assist individuals who are experiencing family breakdown, domestic abuse and child access issues and guardianship access issues.

I think there is a real risk that if government gives the impression that there's all this momentum... and it isn't actually happening, there's a huge risk with that from a climate and environmental perspective.