I was not over my time, but I will stop anyway.

I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

As we speak, workers in the Corrib Oil gas station in Ballinasloe are on strike for the third time in recent weeks. They are mostly young workers, including students, some people from the new communities who have come to the country and some older workers. All are on pretty miserable pay. The basic starting pay is approximately €11.30 per hour. They are on strike because Corrib Oil, which is a big fuel company that runs approximately 25 or 30 gas stations and runs the H2 gas stations, is refusing to recognise the u…

The Government may have voted confidence in itself over the cruel decision to lift the eviction moratorium but Government Deputies would be fools if they thought the public has confidence in them on the housing issue. That is why I hope we will see thousands of people outside the Dáil on Saturday at 1 p.m. for the Cost of Living Coalition's demonstration in response to the Government's decision on the eviction ban. It is not because of performance theatrics from the Opposition, or however the Taoiseach wants to des…

You had better give the Taoiseach some extra time, Acting Chair.

That is absolutely untrue.

The Taoiseach should not say that. It is not true. There is not a single country I champion that-----

I am not a supporter of the Cuban regime.

I never was.

Sometimes it is for years.

It can be four years.

Stays are different.

Most people cannot stand the pressure so they leave.

I wish to take the Taoiseach up on something he said about the State most likely being slower than the private sector regarding retrofitting and the construction of social housing, for example. On the construction of social housing, there is a PPP being developed across three local authority areas to build a relatively small number of social housing units. In the four-year timeline given by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, which was involved in two of the PPPs, by far the biggest time lag in the delivery of s…

I want to ask the Taoiseach a question I asked him the other day in the context of his discussions with his European counterparts to which I never get an answer. I have asked several times and I asked the Tánaiste and other Ministers. The Taoiseach and his European counterparts have within a very short space of time imposed sanctions on Putin and Russia for what is unquestionably a barbaric, unjustified and murderous invasion of Ukraine - illegal occupation of Ukrainian territory, denial of self-determination, brea…

They were encouraged by the Zionists.

I thank the Labour Party for bringing this important motion forward. Last week I raised the case of Gaelscoil Phádraig, one of the indirect victims of the 58 school delays. They still have not got a firm answer as to when their problem is going to be solved. I think they possibly have the record for delay, which is shocking. The school is in existence 27 years. It was founded in 1995 in a temporary location and moved to its current temporary location with prefabs in the year 2000. It has been there ever since. It w…

There are many reasons People Before Profit will be supporting the no-confidence motion in the Government tomorrow. The most important and powerful of those at the moment is the Government's absolutely heartless and cruel decision to allow the eviction of thousands of families, individuals and, worst of all, children, into homelessness with its decision to lift the eviction ban. In the vast majority of those cases, those people have nowhere to go. Emergency accommodation is not available to them and certainly not, …

If this Government were to be dissolved, it would at last open up the possibility that we could take the sort of radical emergency measures that are necessary to address the housing crisis and finally depart from the failed strategy, pursued by successive Fine Gael governments, of favouring the interests of speculators, developers, vulture funds and corporate landlords, who are profiteering and benefiting from the housing misery that tens of thousands of people are suffering. I not only urge people to vote no confi…

Will the Taoiseach survive?