It is a shocking situation. We need a debate urgently.

Tell farmers that.

I am asking you to describe it.

The people know what you are.

Farmers know you are forgetting them.

It is not agreed.

I will ask a question of the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, as she is present. The Minister was in Thurles last week and in Tipperary but she did not go to Roscrea. The women, mothers, grandmothers and children of Roscrea took a silent vigil outside the Garda station last Monday night. It was just themselves with no outside interference. The Minister insulted them and decried them greatly by saying they were being manipulated. They were fearful because a man had followed a widow woman into a house on the pre…

I want to rebut some of the claims made here earlier by people who are now far distant. People like us who were looking for a debate on the issue of migration were not in the Chamber. We all have committees and a lot of committees were sitting today. I was listening in my office to some of the diatribe. I point out that when we had our motion, we did not have a quorum for the whole motion. The Minister for Justice said last week in Thurles that she has to "push back very strongly" against claims by women in Roscrea…

She said local protesters are being manipulated by outside forces trying to stoke up trouble.

That is an utter lie by her, an utter diatribe. These are good people who have contacted me in numbers to say they are offended and disgusted that she carries on with this diatribe.

I am quoting from her statement.

I have it up on my phone.

Do not be wasting my time. I am quoting from a statement.

I would not do it otherwise. It is a statement. This is the problem with the Government, with its head in its hands. It is a problem it has failed to deal with and it sticks in my craw to hear Deputies from Sinn Féin, who were good at the petrol bombs, and their groups and rewarders, and burning down places. Nobody wants a place burned down. I condemn from the bottom of my heart anybody who burns a building. A burned building is no use to anyone. However, good people are being labelled when a place is burned. There…

Gabhaim buíochas le Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion tonight. I sympathise with Deputy Michael Collins, his partner, Val, his own children, Eileen, Marie and young Michael, and his sister, the mother of that young man. I know how the Deputy was so fond of him. I was present when he had many phone calls with him over the past number of months. I know how hard Deputy Collins tried to assist. Many of us do not get that opportunity but Deputy Collins did. I thank every side in this House who was so sympatheti…

I bring to the attention of the Tánaiste a potential Government cover-up regarding the upcoming referendums. On Monday, 12 February, the former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Senator Michael McDowell, accused the Minister, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman, of hiding vital information regarding the upcoming referendums in March. Senator McDowell's allegations suggest a significant cover-up by the Government and it is a matter that must be urgently addressed. I am today calling for the Government to come clean and…

The Tánaiste is afraid to answer my question. If they are trying to rename Páirc Uí Chaoimh, they should call it Páirc Micheál Martin because he is so good at kicking the ball around and off the pitch, but will not play the ball on the pitch and deal with the questions he is asked. The Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, made an assessment that the Constitution says that a woman's place is in the home. Supreme Court judge Marie Baker, chair of the Electoral Commission, has clarified that the Constitution makes no su…

Good job you were not in goal.

Scoring own goals.

What about a Minister?