I welcome this opportunity although I share the frustration of the previous speakers that we are again having statements on this issue. We have had statements over and over and no progress has been made. On the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024, I spent a short while on the justice committee and I had serious concerns about the Act. I put them aside because we were absolutely assured that community would form the major part of it and that we would have gardaí on the ground. That has not happened. It …

Ar ndóigh, cuireann sé gliondar ar mo chroí agus tugann sé ardú meanman dom an méid Comhaltaí, an Teachta Murphy san áireamh, atá sásta an Ghaeilge a úsáid inniu agus páirt a ghlacadh sa díospóireacht seo. Tá éacht déanta aige agus ag na Teachtaí Dála eile freisin. Ag an am céanna, tá ráitis i gceist arís agus ráitis ó thaobh na Gaeilge de. Chuile bhliain bíonn ráitis againn ó thaobh na Gaeilge de agus tá sé ag coinneáil na Gaeilge ar imeall seachas an Ghaeilge a bheith fite fuaite ar chlár oibre na Dála. Chun an s…

Go hiontach. Rud eile praiticiúil ná na ranganna a éascú do gach leibhéal den fhoireann sa Dáil, na Teachtaí Dála, na Seanadóirí ach, go háirithe, an fhoireann ar an talamh agus sa bhialann, go mbeadh na ranganna seo feiliúnach dóibh agus ansin, tar éis sé mhí, go mbeadh togra píolótach ann le go mbeadh deis ag na daoine sin freastal saor in aisce ar chúrsa Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht. Níor tharla sé sin ach an oiread. D'oibríomar traspháirtí agus chuireamar moltaí praiticiúla le chéile agus níor tharla sé sin. Tá beagái…

An féidir linn an t-am sin a thógáil? Can we take that time?

Go n-éirí leis an gCeann Comhairle ina turas ó thaobh na teanga de. Táimid go léir taobh thiar di agus táimid go léir ar an turas céanna. Gabhaim buíochas le Sinn Féin as ucht an rún seo a chur os comhair na Dála. Clúdaíonn an rún a lán réimsí. Beidh mise ag díriú ar cheann amháin: an ceart chun an oideachais lán-Ghaeilge agus an riachtanas atá ann. An bhfuil an Rialtas ag glacadh leis an rún?

An bhfuil leasú i gceist?

Ní dóigh liom gur bhog an Rialtas aon leasú, mar eolas. An bhfuil an Rialtas ag glacadh leis an rún nó nach bhfuil?

Is scéal dearfach é go bhfuil an Rialtas ag admháil go bhfuil teipthe air ó thaobh polasaí oideachais don Ghaeilge taobh amuigh de na Gaeltachtaí. B'fhéidir go mbeidh ar an Aire a sheiceáil má tá an Rialtas ag glacadh leis an rún nó nach bhfuil. Bhí de phribhléid agam - uaireanta níor cheap mé gur phribhléid é, mar bhí orainn a lán rudaí a léamh trí Ghaeilge, agus de réir a chéile bhí sé i bhfad níos éasca dúinn - a bheith ar an gcomhchoiste Gaeilge le hAengus mar Chathaoirleach. D'fhoilsíomar a lán tuarascálacha a…

Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire agus leis an Aire Stáit nua. Guím gach rath orthu ina róil nua. Baineann mo cheist go sonrach le córas iarnród éadrom do chathair na Gaillimhe. Cén dul chun cinn atá déanta? I congratulate the new Minister and Minister of State and I wish them the best of luck. My specific question is about what progress has been made relating to the roll-out of light rail in Galway, as one essential part of the solution to traffic congestion in Galway.

I think the Minister of State would agree that transport could not get any worse in Galway with traffic congestion. I welcome that there is going to be a plan, but I will tell the Minister of State about my experience. The transport plan that became law in 2016 was already dated and outmoded in light of the increase in the population, the promised increase in the population and our obligations under climate change legislation. With a small team on the streets of Galway - we did not take one signature online - I gat…

The Minister of State knows my views on the N6 project. There are sustainable solutions to the traffic congestion in Galway. We are under an obligation. The Minister of State may have listened to the radio interview this morning regarding the billions we are going to pay in fines for failure to comply with our obligations. Galway is one of five cities that is destined to grow. We have no park-and-ride facilities even though it was put into the city development plan and became law on 1 February 2005. I have to keep …

We are way over time.

Thank you, Minister, we are way over.

I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Housing Commission's report. The commission commenced its work in January 2023 and published its report in May 2024. It has taken this long for the Government, under pressure, to put it on the clár oibre agus díospóireacht a bheith againn faoin tuarascáil thábhachtach sin. The commission had 14 members, five sub-committees and six working groups. It held 200 meetings and made 83 recommendations. I do not think I could disagree with any of its recommendations. It held a publ…

I thank Deputy Coppinger for bringing this issue and setting it out so clearly in the motion and to the visitors in the Gallery. I wish the Minister best of luck in his new role and I welcome that he is not opposing the motion, which is often the death knell - but I will give him the benefit of the doubt that it is not the death knell and he will take this matter seriously.

He said is committed to bringing in the register and changing the law. I have only five minutes so I will not go into it. I welcome what he is saying and he will have to deliver on that.

In 1974, a groundbreaking book about a women's refuge in Chiswick, London entitled Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear was published. Fast forward 49 years to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland publishing an article entitled, "Why is sexual violence still hidden in plain sight in this era of oversharing?" about domestic violence and gender-based violence. Forgive me if I am sceptical because, as Deputy Coppinger said, we have listened to the news this morning about what seems another murder of another …

The Tánaiste talks about respect and trust. That is exactly what the people of Ireland do not have for on in him. There has been a carefully choreographed campaign to get rid of our neutrality. The current Taoiseach, back in 2013, clearly spelled out what Fine Gael was up to. At that point, we were told the triple lock was an integral part of our neutrality and so on. You have turned language on its head. If you want respect and trust, then you should have done what you promised in respect of neutrality and let it …

Micheál Martin, the current Taoiseach has repeatedly said that the triple lock is at the core of our neutrality. As a neutral independent sovereign State, we should use our voice to champion the UN structures, to reform the UN structures and to get away from the language of rule-based order and talk about international law which has been hard won following two world wars. Then we come to Putin. On this side of the House, we are all on record as condemning the illegal invasion. I do not hear the condemning of Americ…

I will pick up on that point on trust. Trust is at an all-time low in this Government in relation to neutrality.