Go read it. I rest my case.
On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 509 of 516 decisive votes (0 abstentions excluded). Read it as a government-or-opposition indicator rather than a measure of influence — the figure is near 100% for members supporting the government of the day and near 0% for those opposing it.
This is the point of the site: contributions keep the party held on the day, not the one held now.
| Party | Recorded as | Contributions | Period |
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| FF | Fianna Fáil | 19,180 | 2020-02-20 – 2026-09-30 |
Membership spells on record: FF 1989-06-15–1992-11-05 · FF 1992-11-25–1997-05-15 · FF 1997-06-06–2002-04-25 · FF 2002-05-17–2007-04-30 · FF 2007-05-24–2011-02-01 · FF 2011-02-25–2016-03-09 · FF 2016-03-10–2020-01-14 · FF 2020-02-08–2024-11-08 · FF 2024-11-29–present
Go read it. I rest my case.
I rest my case.
On the reports from the Police Ombudsman in Northern Ireland, the most recent report is indeed very significant and deeply concerning and is the second such report in a matter of weeks. It examined eight loyalist paramilitary attacks in south Belfast between 1990 and 1998, which resulted in 11 murders and one attempted murder. The report has found strong evidence of investigative and intelligence failures, collusive behaviours by the RUC, including the continued unjustified use of informants involved in serious cri…
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The money has been allocated. It is not a money issue.
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Children's Health Ireland got the money. The Deputy can contact it or seek to meet with it through the Oireachtas Committee on Health, or by whatever means. The Deputy can meet it. It will go through all of that with the Deputy. There is no issue.
The process will be fully transparent. There is an issue with the length of time, and we need to reduce that.
Deputy Whitmore and Deputy Paul Murphy raised the carbon budget issue. That went through committee and there was debate at committee level.
In all of the debates on climate change, I am struck by the fact that everybody wants to delay the day of reckoning on all fronts.
We had that earlier in the cost of living debate, when people said we should postpone the carbon tax.
The same will happen with the carbon budgets.
People will say it is not enough, but when specific measures will be put on the table in respect of realising these objectives, everybody will oppose them.
This is going to be the story of climate change in the next number of years.
There you go again. All you seem to want to do is to say the Green Party is the greatest evil since time began.
It is not, Deputy McGrath. Younger generations in the country need the Oireachtas to deal with climate change once and for all. We cannot keep on postponing and delaying climate change.
Every time there is a big conference like COP26 or whatever, everybody is all ado for about a week or two.
However, when we try to do something concrete about it and resolve carbon budget issues, there are objections.
We had a debate on it.
In fairness, I was responding to issues raised by Deputy Mac Lochlainn. I certainly was not ad-libbing. I was giving a very considered response setting out my views regarding the latest report from the ombudsman, which is quite appalling. I make no bones about saying that. Last week, I met several victims' groups. I met Mark Sykes in the context of what happened in south Belfast. I also met Raymond McCord's group and Michael Gallagher in respect of Omagh. I refer as well to the activities of loyalist paramilitaries…