You have ignored the issue.

It is one rule for the east coast and one for the west.

It is 100% for the east but not for the west. That is what you stood over.

It was the Minister, Deputy McConalogue. The Tánaiste did the same, as did his campaigners. It is 100% for the east but not 100% for the west.

It is second-class citizenship and the Tánaiste knows it.

It is second-class citizenship for victims in the west.

If the Taoiseach would honestly answer the question-----

I will respect An Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am disappointed as always with the Taoiseach.

I apologise to An Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but not to the Taoiseach - or Tánaiste.

He might be the Tánaiste again after the next election.

I am the Sinn Féin spokesperson on fisheries and the marine, so I will focus my comments on that area. I raised a matter with the Taoiseach recently, namely the different approach taken by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, when it comes to super sized factory ships operating in Irish waters. There was a recent whistleblower report in the Mail on Sunday and the story was repeated again last Sunday. I ask that departmental officials would have a look at this. Seafood factories in the likes of Killybegs th…

Many years ago when I served as the Sinn Féin spokesperson on justice, I first met with Lucia and Jim. Lucia took a framed photograph of her beloved son to the meeting and it has never left me how devastated this hard-working, ordinary, decent Irish family was by what had happened. As Deputy Carthy said, it is not the courts, An Garda Síochána, GSOC or any of the institutions of the State that has revealed the truth; it has been the O'Farrell family. They have had to pursue justice and truth relentlessly. They have…

The Taoiseach will know that, in the Irish fishing community, there is a view that there is one rule for super factory ships and super trawlers and another for inshore and island fishers. A recent incident reported in the Mail on Sunday highlighted the serious failure to enforce Common Fisheries Policy rules in respect of the vessel MFV Afrika on 14 March. I ask that the Taoiseach have this matter examined urgently and to send a clear signal that Common Fisheries Policy applies equally regardless of whether the boa…

The Tánaiste described the defective concrete block scheme as the biggest redress scheme in the history of the State and gave the impression to people around the State that everybody would be sorted. I can tell him, and he knows this, that most families in Donegal - I can speak with authority about that - cannot access the scheme because they will have to find between €50,000 and €150,000 to avail of it. There have been public meetings in packed rooms, two in Donegal and one in Mayo. The scheme is not working. For …

There has been a very positive recent development in the fishing and seafood industry. The producer organisations, Killybegs Fishermens Organisation, Irish Fish Producers Organisation, Irish South and West Fish Producers Organisation and the Irish South and East Fish Producers Organisation, have united with the Irish Fish Processors and Exporters Association. That is five major organisations uniting with one purpose, namely, to look at the project of engaging with the European Commission. They have asked the Irish …

As the gap is less than ten and as this motion has such serious consequences for the Irish people, I am asking for a vote by other than electronic means.

It has been publicly announced that Deputy Chambers will become the Minister for Finance, but that is obviously subject to a proposal being presented to the Dáil. When does the Taoiseach intend to do that? I understand it is on the schedule for tomorrow. At what time, and so on, will it be?

The Minister is a TD like the rest of us. I like to believe that he is speaking to his constituents like the rest of us. They are facing this impossible burden, especially people who struggle to pay their rents, mortgages and bills every week. The increased cost of electricity and gas is an impossible burden. Our small businesses face exactly the same burden. This did not happen out of nowhere. It was intentional Government policy that whenever EU liberalisation rules kicked in, nobody embraced privatisation more t…

Who are the Members who have yet to speak? We were advised that anybody who wished to speak would be present here in the Chamber. That was a message sent through all the Whips earlier on. Who are the people who have indicated to speak?

Yes, he is here-----