Taoiseach, does it regulate-----

The independent audit of hip surgeries performed at Children's Health Ireland, CHI, and the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh is damning. It makes for devastating reading for parents and families who are caught up in this scandal. One of those parents, a heartbroken mother, contacted us. Her daughter was just four when she had surgery on both hips. This mother is convinced, based on her reading of the audit report, that her daughter did not require either operation. Here is what she wrote: I am gutted to have l…

It is now abundantly clear for anyone who wishes to see that clinical governance and governance in general at CHI is absolutely a fiasco. I know that three members of the board have resigned. I put it to the Taoiseach that the remaining members should follow suit because clearly what is needed here now is root-and-branch reform, change, transparency and accountability. I voice concern over the full independence of this reference group from CHI because that is the concern that parents are bringing to us. They have b…

Even as it commits genocide in Gaza, the Taoiseach refuses to sanction Israel. Even as Israel massacres thousands of children, burns families and starves a refugee population, it is allowed to act with impunity. The Taoiseach's claim that Sinn Féin's Bill, which aims to stop the Irish Central Bank overseeing the sale of Israeli war bonds across Europe, is incompatible with EU law is utterly cynical and bogus. We have advice from the Oireachtas services here which confirms that the Bill is in compliance with EU and …

Ireland should not be complicit in the funding of a genocide-----

-----against innocent Palestinian men, women and children.

Then stop the Central Bank facilitating the sale of war bonds.

It is not. That is utterly-----

They had been asking for three years.

The Taoiseach is right; only sanctions will do so.

One will also be told that sanctions are needed.

The apology offered today by the Government to the family of Shane O’Farrell comes after 14 years of their courageous and relentless pursuit of truth and justice for their son and brother. This apology is a vindication of the O’Farrell family’s unwavering stand for Shane and the life that was so cruelly taken from him. It is an acknowledgement of the litany of abuse by the entire State apparatus, not merely the criminal justice system, to which the family was subjected. It is to the shame of successive Governments …

It is time for the Government to put an end to the Irish Central Bank facilitating the sale of Israel's war bonds throughout the European Union. There is simply no limit to the cruelty Israel inflicts on the people of Gaza. Not content with perpetrating 19 months of genocide, massacring tens of thousands of Palestinians - mostly children, women and the elderly - Israel has imposed a blockade on Gaza. The supply of food and vital humanitarian aid has been cut off to a people hanging on for dear life. The children of…

-----that mealy-mouthed pattern of condemnation but no more, deploring but ultimately standing back and doing nothing. The greatest shield Israel has is the refusal of the international community to impose sanctions. They continue to make excuses. They hide behind so-called complexities as Israel intensifies its genocide and continues to brutally and brazenly violate international law. Let me be very clear; there is nothing complex about genocide, there is nothing complex about the mass slaughter of children and th…

Except that it does not do that.

To be seen to do nothing.

That is absolute rubbish.

We can hear you.

That is wrong.

That is outrageous.