I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on health insurance and few other things because we have a lot of issues. Everyone who can possibly afford it should have health insurance. I welcome any moves by the Department of Health and the Government to put money into private health insurance to help bring down the premiums or the policies, if that is what will follow. I worry whether the insurance companies will take advantage and increase the premiums again because that seems to be what happens following interventio…

I am glad to get the chance to talk on this very important motion. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. I welcome the ladies in the Gallery who are here to campaign for justice. Like all of the other women out there who are being abused, they are depending on Dáil Éireann to see after them and to uphold their right to live and carry on where they have always been, in their own local areas. It was said that there is an urgent need for robust enforcement of protection orders. We should develop a strategy to ens…

When did the Deputy build houses?

Is it one question?

How much longer does the Minister of State think Ireland can pay over €1 billion per year to accommodate Ukrainian refugees? The other question, which I have asked several times, is: if we can give €600 to assist Ukrainians to pay their rent, can we give it to Irish people as well?

I am glad to get the opportunity to talk on this very important matter this evening. I, like everyone else, commiserate with the people of Ukraine who have gone through so much. What is going on is terrible as is the length of time it has been going on. We have to recognise that Ireland has played a major part in welcoming, as was said previously, up to 120,000 people from Ukraine. Of course, I welcome people who are working here, are in employment here and can stand on their own two feet here. However, when we rea…

You should not be taking sides and that is it. Standing with Ukraine is antagonising the Russians.

You said it there. I wrote down what you said.

Saying things like we are standing shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine, we cannot stand with anyone. We could not keep up------

Ye need to be more careful about what ye are saying-----

-----and the way ye are saying it.

I am here. Deputy Whitmore was looking for me.

You were looking for me. Here I am.

I am here. I was here all night.

I will not be protecting the foxes either.

I will not be protecting the foxes either like you will.

I will do whatever I like, madam.

I will-----

Tell them what you said about the foxes.

Save the foxes.