That is not the case.

There are not thousands of jobs.

Who do you think?

Look at the record. Bertie Ahern was shaking Putin's hand when------

You were neutral when Chechnya was bombed to bits.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, has said that moving away from the triple lock on Irish neutrality would be "a sensible change". He and Fine Gael claim this is in response to Putin's disgusting invasion of Ukraine. The truth is that Fine Gael has been pushing for this for decades. In 2003, it produced a policy document, Beyond Neutrality, that supported moving towards participation in a common EU defence policy and abandoning the triple lock, which it described as a political straitjacket. Fine Ga…

The Government says there is no housing emergency. What world is it living in? In this country, figures today show that rents have risen by 14% in the past 12 months, the largest increase ever recorded by daft.ie . We know the average rent is 120% higher than in 2011. There are 11,000 people homeless, more than 3,000 of whom are children. There are 166,000 properties sitting vacant, 50,000 of which have been vacant for at least six years. The crisis is an absolute catastrophe for ordinary people in this country, ex…

I presume the Taoiseach is aware that the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO, decided, on the basis of a 3:2 majority, that it would not investigate further my complaint about the leaking by the then Taoiseach, now the Tánaiste, of the GP contract to his political supporter Maitiú Ó Tuathail. I want to focus on the reasoning set out by the commission. In its concluding paragraph, it states, "The commission carefully considered its legal advice and all the evidence before it, including the acceptance by the…

The investment court system, ICS, has not been applied.

Yes, I can imagine.

Is the Taoiseach saying that we cannot challenge these decisions?

I wish to pursue an issue Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Taoiseach about yesterday but did not get anywhere with, namely, the corporate sustainability directive. This is a potentially important directive that would make corporations responsible for abuses of labour rights, environmental protection and consumer protection right through their supply chains. However, a massive corporate lobbying effort to water it down is happening. An important part of that effort is saying finance should be excluded. The Irish Coalitio…

No, they do not. That is not true.

The Taoiseach should stop saying it. It is not true. He has been saying it non-stop.

No, they are not.

I represented the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment at the European Parliament. They are not standard practice.

This is nonsense

It is not true. You keep saying that.

Yes, but-----

Sure you do.