It is ethnic cleansing.

I do not.

Condemn Israel. Condemn Israel's abuse. Condemn the war crimes.

Condemn the war crimes.

I want to express my sympathy and condolences to the family of Kim Damti and the families of all those who have tragically lost their lives over the past week. Speaking about Russia on 19 October last year, President von der Leyen stated: "... attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror. And we have to call it as such." Now, when Israel is doing precisely that, a…

Will the Tánaiste call them war crimes?

I do not need lectures from the Tánaiste. He will not condemn a war crime.

The Tánaiste will not condemn a war crime.

I do not need lectures from the Tánaiste.

The Tánaiste is an absolute hypocrite.

An apartheid state is not a democracy.

Amnesty International would too.

This was a good budget for those the Government represents. The landlords got a significant tax break. The corporate tax avoiders got an extension of their research and development tax credit, or tax break in reality, and the multimillionaire angel investors got a bespoke tax break. It was a bad budget for people with disabilities, for children and for those on hospital waiting lists. I want to focus on a few specific measures that illustrate the character of this budget. The most striking is the €160 million tax b…

What sums up this budget are permanent tax breaks for the rich and once-off crumbs for ordinary people. Many people will not have heard the term "angel investor" before today. However, angel investors will wake up tomorrow and discover there is a new tax break. If you are an angel investor, it is a great budget because there is a new tax break worth almost €500,000. It is a great budget. For the landlords who get a new tax break, it is a great budget. For the tax-avoiding big corporations, it is a great budget. How…

I want to ask if the Minister supports the proposal from the Dublin Commuter Coalition to abolish the M50 and East Link tolls to incentivise motorists to not to pass through the city centre. This would reduce congestion and air pollution, speed up public transport and make it more reliable. It would facilitate active travel and would make the city centre a safer, healthier and more pleasant place to be.

There is not a contradiction between improving how we use our streets, providing better public transport and abolishing the tolls. The Minister said he agrees with the vision but the vision argues that the tolls encourage vehicles crossing the city to go straight through the centre rather than taking routes around it. We know from Dublin City Council's draft Dublin city centre transport plan 2023 that six out of every ten cars are simply using the city centre roads as the most convenient routes to reach destination…

The Minister is also opposed to making public transport free. He is against doing those measures which make it easier for people to engage in better ways of being in Dublin city and not adding to congestion in our city centre by taking public transport and engaging in active travel. He opposed abolishing public transport fares because it would lead to "unnecessary journeys". What we need to target are unnecessary car journeys and the way to do that is not by charging people which seems to be what the Minister is ge…

The Minister should go further.

Agreed.

No, it would not.