Speeches: 8 July 2026

I personally believe that the FCI proposals provide a roadmap for creating more equitable and more sustainable and a more responsive care system for family carers.

For as long as this is not dealt with, it will cast a shadow over Ireland's EU Presidency.

In terms of our work in acute hospital settings and patients presenting with psychosis, young people in the context of substance use, it's a potent, powerful, evidence-based trigger.

I don't know how we can plan a service if we don't know how many people need to use that service.

They lie awake at night wondering who will care for their son or their daughter, where they will live, whether they will be safe, whether they'll be happy or whether they will still be connected to the people and places that they love and know.

This means that children are being left behind.

What we're seeing is a slow war of attrition against health care, against nutrition, against civilians by the United States through the ongoing blockade and the escalation of that.

Taoiseach, tonight TDs have an opportunity to ban the barbaric practice of hair-coursing, to join the North and the rest of Europe in saying that terrorising animals is not entertainment or sport.

So a neutral state is saying, great, we're driving this further militarisation of Europe.

For me the game has to be stopped; it shouldn't be played.

If the mark of a civilised society is how it treats its most vulnerable members, then the lack of care shown towards adults with intellectual disabilities marks out this state as a profoundly uncivilised one.

This bill matters at its most basic level in that it seeks to give, it sends a clear message that goods produced in the illegal settlements will not benefit from trade with Ireland, similar to apartheid South Africa in the past.