I have.

By creating inhuman, completely unfair discrimination between asylum seekers the Government fundamentally legitimised the rhetoric and the dehumanisation by the far right. It is treating Ukrainians the way decent people would expect refugees to be treated but treating people who are coming from other conflicts, such as in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, in a completely inhumane way, by putting people into direct provision, at best, and putting them onto the streets, where they are vulnerable to being attacked by people…

We saw more of it today with the Government choosing to say that this moment is one, like Micheál Martin shows, to say the far left is effectively as bad as the far right, giving out about some leaflet that People Before Profit produced in Cork. What did you say?

What we are debating-----

No, I did not.

There was a trial about that. This is absolutely shameful.

What is happening now is that the far right is organising.

We have been calling out this organising for well over a year. We have been pointing out the truth, that the Government's police force, presumably with the Government's agreement, has taken a softly-softly approach all through the lie.

The Garda allowed people to board buses. It allowed far-right agitators to go in and harass librarians and pharmacists.

Gardaí were there just before refugees were burned out at Sandwith Street.

Where was the left in that? The left was standing with the refugees in Sandwith Street, trying to protect them from the attacks of the far right. The left was organising for the Ireland For All demonstration. The Government's system of deep inequality and discrimination creates a breeding ground for this and then it will not take a stand against them. We have no confidence in the Government. We have to look to the movement of ordinary people and the trade union movement. They are the only force-----

-----that will be able to resist this rising menace of hatred, division and the far right.

In recent weeks, there has been a clamour to lift the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to enable further untrammelled growth. That clamour is coming from the DAA and the airlines, including Mr. Michael O'Leary of Ryanair, who has said that the DAA should just ignore the cap. The Taoiseach, of course, has backed them up. Does the Minister support Fine Gael and Ryanair, which want to lift the cap, or his Green Party colleagues, like Mr. Ciarán Cuffe, MEP, who has rightly questioned the wisdom of doing this during the …

I am disappointed.

The Minister of State referred to the sustainable development of the airline sector. Does he accept that, if the number of passengers is increased from 32 million to 40 million per year, there will be a significant increase in emissions? It is that simple. I believe it was the CEO of the DAA whom I heard on the radio trying to claim that, by increasing the number of passengers, the DAA would be able to invest in electric buses and so forth at the airport and thereby reduce emissions even though the lion’s share of …

Until we have some technology, which remains very far away and may never arrive, "sustainable growth of the airline sector" is an oxymoron. Flying is the most carbon-intensive method of travel, and that is not even to mention private jets, which are even more carbon intensive, given all that weight taking off, fuelled by fossil fuels, for just a few passengers. Flying is the most unsustainable way to travel, yet the Government believes we can expand it sustainably. We cannot. This is a choice. We expand aviation or…

The problem of vacant teaching posts has been growing year-on-year under the Minister's watch. The problem is now out of control with 800 vacant teaching posts at primary level and two thirds of secondary schools having unfilled vacancies. Special schools and DEIS schools in the Dublin area are suffering the most due to the housing and cost-of-living crisis. What will the Minister and the Government do about it?

Saying there are challenges in some schools or areas is a significant understatement of the problem. The problem is getting worse year on year. Of the 809 vacant primary teaching posts nationwide, 513 are in Dublin. In my constituency, Dublin 24 has 58 vacancies, Dublin 15 has 35 vacancies and Dublin 12 has 33 vacancies. Teachers and principals have written to the Minister warning her that this has reached crisis point and that they are tired and worn out from trying to find teachers for the most disadvantaged and …

There are very immediate things that can be done. Some of the obstacles to teachers with qualifications from abroad could be removed. I will provide another example, this one a letter from the deputy principal of St. Aidan’s Senior National School in Brookfield. She wrote: Our school was granted permission to open a classroom for our pupils with a Mild General Learning Disability a number of years ago. However, like many schools in Dublin, we have been unable to hire enough teachers and so we were unable to open th…

I will tell the Minister who they are. Gardaí do not need facial recognition technology.