Speeches: 25 June 2026

Because people who commit genocide won't be too worried about rules of origin or spectres of legal action.

If we're doing trade with them, then we are contributing to the maintenance of the illegal situation in the occupied territories.

We should welcome a day in court with these people, so we'll be taken to court.

I mean, it's really sickening and it shows it like a moral bankruptcy at the highest level.

And I want to congratulate, for the first time, a woman to be appointed to the Director of the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, renowned as perhaps one of the best botanic gardens in the world.

If government has nothing to hide, then hide nothing.

For God's sake, let's stop making it emotive and just get rid of the thing.

The fact that workers were left worse off last year is why it's even more important that any tax package for workers is fair and it works for all workers.

Do you accept, Tánaiste, that relying on that one snapshot is not a good way to do business, is not a good way to make an assessment, and that fixed reference date is no longer fit for purpose?

11 people richer than two thirds of the population put together.

The PAYE workers and hard working families were mugged.

People who cannot afford to be pushed down a queue because 25% of the laboratory's workload is taken up by work from a private hospital.

This has not been treated as a priority by your government because we seem to have a problem in this state where we look at elderly people and we think it's someone else's problem.

We need to strengthen the villages and smaller towns to provide an option for people that live within the village structure, where they are close to pubs, shops, community centre, et cetera, and schools.

The level of core funding is simply not keeping pace with their escalating overheads.