There is a commitment in the strategy statement to focus on building stronger and safer communities through reforms in the areas of housing, policing, community safety and community development. The strategy makes a specific reference to the implementation of policing reforms and to the Dublin north-east inner city initiative. The Taoiseach met with members of the North Inner City Community Coalition last month to discuss the increase of violent crime in the area. The coalition emphasised to the Taoiseach the urgen…

Ar dtús, ba mhaith liom mo dhlúthpháirtíocht, agus dlúthpháirtíocht Shinn Féin, a léiriú le mhuintir na hÚcráine. Ní féidir le héinne a bhfuil meas acu ar an saoirse, ar cheannasaíocht agus ar an bhféinchinneadh, ach breathnú le huafás ar ghníomhartha na Rúise agus a ceannaire, Vladimir Putin. Níl a leithéid feicthe againn san Eoraip le thart ar ceithre scór bliain anuas. Tuigeann muintir na hÉireann an tionchar a bhfuil ar ionradh eachtrannach agus seasaimid leis an Úcráin ag an tráth seo. Ní thugann gníomhartha n…

Last Wednesday night, the Government voted again to ensure cuckoo funds continue to pay no tax and outbid workers and families for homes they desperately need. Those funds were back in the news at the weekend. The first story was about a Dutch outfit paying €110 million to hoover up 280 family homes in Dublin. The CEO of that outfit said it could own the houses for 50 years and is not selling them. In 50 years, the grandchildren of those struggling to buy a house today will be looking for a home of their own. Anoth…

It goes way beyond that. The REIT developer friends-----

Wow. Brass neck.

From your gang.

If ever there was a salutary tale and lesson of Fianna Fáil in government, the party of the Galway tent, brown envelopes and a cosy relationship with developers, it is O'Devaney Gardens. Look no further.

The reason this has dragged on and on is that its buddies that had a public-private partnership, PPP, arrangement with the State at the time went bust and let the entire community down. I could go on and on, but I do not have the scope to recount the corruption and the corrupted nature of its relationship with the people to whom I have referred. Its plan fails again because it is a myopic and limited view. I put it to the Taoiseach that the funds the Government now mollycoddles and the sweetheart deals it affords t…

Does the Taoiseach believe the State ought to buy these 500 homes?

Furthermore, does the Taoiseach believe that the sweetheart tax arrangements with these funds should continue? That is the Government's policy in the here and now, and it is this policy that is causing so much hardship for an entire generation of people that the Government has locked out of homeownership and who endure extortionate rents. This is happening on the Taoiseach's watch. Those, my friend, are the facts.

Yes.

Ansbacher, Galway.

Pathetic.

No.

You are pathetic.

Pathetic.

What is the Taoiseach's response to Bartra?

He does not have one.

He has no answer.

I will when I am in your seat, with pleasure.