On the Tánaiste’s watch, the Irish Air Corps traffic control at Baldonnel is moving to five days per week. It does not have the personnel to provide full seven-day cover. The air traffic controllers based there manage military, helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft. They also manage Garda aircraft. Garda leadership is now looking for alternatives because responding to crime, as the Tánaiste knows, is not a five-day-a-week job. There are concerns these cutbacks will lead to a loss in essential support for the Coast Gua…

Of course it does.

The Government can stop it.

So, should we let Israel fund its war and its genocide?

When we read the report words kind of fail us. We have heard words over the last number of days such as "shocked" and "disgraceful" from parents who are dealing with the anger and the emotion. As my party colleague, Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, mentioned earlier, one parent felt they had let their child down. This is an emotion expressed by many of the parents I have spoken to. It is the wrong emotion because it was not they who let their child down; it was the State, it was the system, it was CHI, it was Temple Stree…

I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This Bill gives us the power to put a block on war bonds being sold through the Irish Central Bank across the European Union, the power to finally sanction Israel. If the Government's words mean anything, it will support this Bill because words mean nothing if the Government refuses to act. There are hard decisions and easy decisions. I listened to a doctor describe responding to a mass casualty event. He only had two shots of painkillers. He had to decide who woul…

Is the Minister serious? That is just pathetic.

It is pathetic nonsense. It is only the Irish Central Bank that is allowed to do this.

It would not be happening in our name. At least we would be standing up against the genocide.

That is a disgraceful speech. That speech is going to go down in history. It is a disgraceful speech from the Minister.

It is absolutely not.

What about our obligations in the face of genocide?

Tell that to the child who has been ripped apart by the bombs that are funded through sales of war bonds through the Irish Central Bank.

The Government will not even let it go to the committee.

And tomorrow more bombs will rain down.

His masters at EU level will be happy. Paschal will get many pats when he goes back to Brussels.

Shame on you. That was a disgraceful speech.

They are selling war bonds. They are not even hiding it.

That is a nonsense argument.

They are selling war bonds. They are advertising them as that. They are not selling green bonds. They are not planting trees. They are killing children.