My question is simple. Will long Covid be included in the terms of reference of the Covid inquiry? It is clearly important that if we are to come to a balanced assessment of mistakes that were made and so on, we do not look just at the short term but also at the long-term implications for hundreds of thousands of people, such as illness, isolation and inability to work. In that regard, the economic impacts alone are severe. According to the World Health Organization, one in ten Covid infections results in long Covi…

Did the issue of trans rights in education and healthcare come up in discussions with church leaders? The Catholic Primary School Management Association recently wrote to the Government, arguing that students should not be taught what it means to be transgender. It stated that it would be "counterproductive, generating unnecessary divisions" and, "more seriously, it might add to a growing psychological contagion amongst young and vulnerable children". It is bizarre language that seems to suggest that being trans is…

The biggest ever strike is taking place in the North today, with more than 150,000 workers from right across the public sector taking co-ordinated action to fight for higher wages. They are fed up with seeing their real-term wages drop and being punished by a Tory Government that wants to ensure their pay levels drop behind those of workers in England, Scotland and Wales. They are absolutely correct to engage in strike action. They have the full support of People Before Profit. If they are prepared to continue and …

I welcome this Bill as a long overdue reform of the social welfare system in relation to maintenance. It is nothing short of outrageous that for decades lone mothers have been legally obliged to pursue fathers for maintenance by the Department of Social Protection and are then penalised by the Department when the father does not pay court-approved maintenance. That is because the Department deducts maintenance approved by the courts from the mother's social welfare payments regardless of whether she actually receiv…

They are not facts.

Deputy Mattie McGrath over there-----

Lined their pockets.

A Cheann Comhairle------

It makes a charade of the place not to discuss a genocide-----

-----and to continue as if we have business as usual,

-----when 250 Palestinians------

-----are being killed every single day and the Government will not even have a debate about it.

That makes a charade of this place, a Cheann Comhairle.

That makes a charade of this place.

We need to have a debate this week.

We need to have a debate.

It is a charade not to have a debate.

We used it to debate the genocide convention.

She is misleading the Dáil.

We used our Private Members' time.