Speeches: 30 June 2026

What a disgrace in a republic that claims to value education.

As people, Irish people, have suffered racism ourselves for generations, it's very important we stand up and oppose any kind of targeting of people because of their religion, because of their ethnic background, because of their race.

Will you stand up for neutrality, will you oppose the EU militarization agenda and their complicity with genocide or will you cater to the agenda?

Because our work here really at the end of the day is to have a greater openness and transparency on European affairs and particularly these instruments.

The land itself holds the truth.

For far too many families, childcare is no longer just a challenge, it's a barrier to having children, returning to work or simply making ends meet.

It is the only country in the European Union, including England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where disabled citizens have no legal rights whatsoever to treatment, to care, to support, to independent living.

They need to be absolutely sure that that Gardaí member isn't already convicted of a crime of domestic violence themselves.

The independence of the AI office, the Irish AI office, is critical to all of this and to everything that comes after it.

It is simply unacceptable that not one minister, not even the Minister of State of the 38 available, was present to officiate at the commissioning of new officers into the Naval Service.

This new rehab looks after acquired brain injury, either stroke or traumatic, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, spinal injuries and a host of other things.

You defended European Union and European values, and you countered the false narrative that Europe was being overrun by migrants.

It's state-owned, it's state-controlled and it's not a market initiative.

An obligation is something that we must do, and to exempt this from Section 15 of the Climate Act is ultimately quite preposterous.

What is being delivered by this Government is not a series of isolated measures but a coherent reform programme, one that balances urgency with sustainability and ambition with delivery.

The failure of one crop didn't cause the famine that decimated our population.

I'm glad to get the opportunity to welcome that Shannon LNG has got approval to bring in gas and to store gas and to give us another option

To place these on the exact same statutory footing is profoundly insensitive to grieving families.

We must pass this full package, dismantle these artificial bureaucratic bottlenecks and transform the extended family into active, legal, protected partners in safeguarding Ireland's children.

So it's quite ludicrous, in my view, that when we bring a bill, a piece of legislation, before the House on AI, that the committee relevant to that piece of legislation are not consulted is something that I think we need to examine greatly.

We are making progress in reducing the level of child poverty in the country.

Why are you allowing this scandalous profiteering to go unchecked? Why are you content to sit back and allow more than a million households to take the hit?

The system that's in land fisheries Ireland at the moment is not fit for purpose.

But the government accepts that fossil fuels are the problem and says nonetheless full steam ahead in terms of LNG, nonetheless full steam ahead in terms of expansion of Dublin airport, nonetheless full steam ahead in terms of data centers and AI.

I would totally agree and would be totally transparent and upfront about how we use AI and where we should use it.

I think in general, where we're currently standing, AI is a force for bad, not a force for good in the world.

you can't be poacher and gamekeeper at the same time, they point in opposite directions.

It should go down as the day of the bonfire of our climate targets.

It is utterly outrageous that we're expected to deal with the bill like this, the bill that we just dealt with, and the next bill we're doing in two hours.

So these are further supports to the tune of about c255 million that'll help businesses, that will help households as well in reducing the cost of driving, be using diesel, petrol or indeed green diesel for work.

This is strategic, reserve, state owned, state led, that is required, and this legislation deals with the consenting process itself.

But the problem we have at the moment, Taoiseach, is we have 180 resigning from the Garda services outside of retirement.

Just a quick question because we all know the importance of child benefit and how important it is for families.

This proposal must be progressed and approved without further delay.

We then might ask a social welfare inspector to go and assess both households and make a judgment call in relation to where we believe the child is primarily residing.

The two stages from requesting a test to actually getting a test is misleading.

But overall, the state has to become the provider of childcare.

Trust has been broken between the public and the government in this regard.

These were not certificates of attendance, they were hard-earned commissions and they should have been afforded the courtesy of the government and a representative of the government being present for their graduation and not the Secretary General of the Department of Defence, who is a civil servant.