But not the park.

It is still history if you change the name of the park.

It is a shame the Taoiseach scrapped the idea of a citizens' assembly.

The programme for Government says the Government will move responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments, MUD, Acts to the Department of housing from the Department of justice and establish a unit in the Housing Agency to regulate owners' management companies, OMCs, to ensure effective governance. That is important work that needs to happen. The problem is that it is not happening currently, but it has been agreed. Effectively what is holding it up is that, as a result of the Mulcreevy judgment, the primary legisl…

The Housing Agency has not been allocated funding for doing any regulatory work as a result. This needs urgent action.

During the last budget, the then Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, claimed there was no need for cost-of-living payments in the budget because, "inflation has now returned to normal rates." He said inflation would be around 2% this year. What a load of rubbish, gaslighting people that the cost of living was actually becoming more affordable, when the dogs on the street know that it is not. He has now swanned off to Washington to be on €600,000 per year and is not bothered but ordinary people are left with the …

On Monday night, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Labour, the Green Party and right-wing Independents all voted to raise rents on the poorest households in Dublin city. These are council tenants, AHB tenants, HAP and RAS tenants who do not even get any maintenance from the council and who are all set to have their rents increased from April. There are plans to do the same across the country. This is pointed towards in the Government's housing plan, including in South Dublin County Council. The rent is being increased for co…

We are introducing this Bill today because the Government has failed to put its money where its mouth is. On Palestine and Gaza, it is all talk and no action. Sanctions by Ireland on Israel would make a real difference because, shamefully, Ireland is now the world's second largest importer of Israeli goods. During the genocide of the past two years, trade between Ireland and apartheid Israel has exploded from €198 million in 2020 to €3.24 billion in 2024. These are not consumer goods. If they were consumer goods, t…

I thank those who brought forward this motion, which we support. I mostly thank and pay tribute to the whistleblowers who are in the Gallery and those at home and elsewhere. One of the privileges of my job is that I get to meet whistleblowers while they are in the process of whistleblowing. I get to work with them as they are trying to bring justice and do good in whatever sphere they work in. I have met a whole bunch of whistleblowers at this stage working in different areas of the world or industry. What is inter…

For 15 months, an Irish citizen from County Antrim has been held without trial in an English prison and has had his rights denied. Jordan Devlin is being locked inside for 23 and a half hours per day. He is being strip searched twice daily. His mail has been withheld, his visits are blocked and his calls are denied. His sister said, "They put him on public protection so he can't speak to anyone". She also said: They often don’t have vegetarian food so he can't eat. They're x-raying him and strip-searching him twice…

But in Britain, if you just hold a sign saying "Free Palestine Action", you can be arrested.

That is crazy.

And they got bashed, did they not?

They got battered by gardaí, did they not?

Did the Taoiseach support the gardaí battering them?

They were protesting trade with Israel.

The budget was a savage attack on disabled people. It took over €1,000 out of the pockets of disabled people and betrayed the promise in the programme for Government to introduce a permanent annual cost-of-disability support payment. The last time I asked about this, the Taoiseach claimed the cost of disability would be looked at in the next budget. The cost-of-living crisis is now. The cost-of-disability crisis is now. Some 70,000 people who are disabled or have a long-term illness are living in poverty. That is o…

This is the 12th time I have been in here and asked to vote for a huge amount of money to be handed over to the horse and greyhound racing industry. This year what we are asked to vote for is €100 million, about €20 million to greyhound racing and about €80 million to horse racing. To put that in context, that is close to the total funding for Sport Ireland. It is more than three times the amount of core funding given to the 87 different sports bodies in this country, adding together the GAA, the FAI, Swim Ireland,…

But 70% of the public oppose greyhound racing.

What we are talking about here is a €12 billion fund to effectively raise the walls of Fortress Europe. Fortress Europe, with its militarised borders, plans to spend some of that money to pay so-called third countries with dubious human rights records and records of repression of opponents, such as the repression of the Kurds in the case of Turkey, to take some asylum seekers that come to Europe. Fortress Europe is a system that was responsible last year for the death of over 2,000 people. Over 2,000 people died in…