Maths is not the Taoiseach's thing.

Having obliterated northern Gaza, massacring thousands of Palestinians, including children, Israel now intensifies its assault on southern Gaza. Palestinians are being pushed into an area one third the size of the Gaza Strip. People ordered to evacuate now have literally no place to go. They have no food, no water and no safety. It is a humanitarian disaster. The Taoiseach used the words "disproportionate" and "counterproductive" to describe the bombardment of Gaza and the slaughter of civilians and children. I sug…

It is defeatist.

Earlier, the Taoiseach referred to the prospect of energy independence for Ireland as the moonshot of the 21st century. I raise with him the fact that yesterday we learnt that 95% of industry experts believe that, in fact, we will sail right past our 2030 target of 80% of our energy being from renewable sources. I raise with him concerns about the recent RESS 3 auction, which cleared the smallest amounts at the very highest price ever, with a real risk of the renewable pipeline running dry. I ask him again about th…

You opposed statutory timelines for years. You voted against them.

Nobody is doing that.

It is just not accurate.

That is simply not the case.

No, when inaccuracies are stated.

The streets of Dublin's north inner city have not been safe for a long time. The area is scourged by open drug dealing, drug-taking, on-street nuisance drinking, and constant and threatening antisocial behaviour. It is in this abnormal atmosphere that people go about their daily lives. People make their journeys to work and parents do the school drop-offs with the ever-present hum of menace, risk and an overriding lack of personal safety. Over the course of Fine Gael’s 12 years in government, people have been robbe…

Many parents tell me they feel forgotten, vulnerable and afraid. They are angry. Incredible work was done to get the children back to school. I acknowledge múinteoir Pól Hansard and his staff. It has to be asked, in the immediate aftermath of this attack, where was the emergency response from the Government? Only days after the stabbing of three of their classmates, and as Leanne Flynn lay in her hospital bed, it was back to business as usual for the area surrounding Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire - strangers street dr…

Those who live-----

It is a fact.

I am not. I am stating the facts, on the record of the Dáil.

Those who live and work here, who walk these streets, who have grown up in Dublin and who love this city, know the score - the broken lives, broken spirits, broken health and bodies of the walking wounded. The Government refers to them as vulnerable. I call them the brutalised, the forgotten, failed by government after government, by a system and a State that grinds them up and allows them to fall through the cracks and then wrings its hands in faux outrage when we reach a horrific flashpoint. I refer to those who …

A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

-----can I assist the Government who are clearly hard of hearing?

No, I am not withdrawing it.

I have not.

I have not misled anybody.