It will not get back to us.

There is literally not a day that goes by when we do not get further evidence of the obscene profiteering of energy companies. The latest, of course, is Electric Ireland finding itself able to reduce prices for business, but not able to do so for householders, and the fact that wholesale prices for energy have now dropped to 18-month and pre-war lows. It appears that while they were able to jack up prices to extortionate levels to crucify ordinary people, they cannot reduce the prices now that wholesale prices have…

The ESB is run on a not-for-profit basis.

My question follows on neatly from Deputy McAuliffe's. The Children's Rights Alliance gave the worst mark to the Government on youth mental health. You look at the chronic understaffing of child and adolescent mental health services for assessments to provision of therapies, and it is all down to a lack of staffing. Then we make it very difficult for people who want to, for example, qualify with masters or doctorates in psychology, or in other allied health professions, to get qualified when they want to work in th…

Will the Taoiseach be a bit more precise as to when the constitutional referendum on housing will take place and what exactly it will propose? If we have such a referendum, will it be matched by a willingness on the part of the Government to make use of it? One of the purposes of having such a referendum is that we could do things such as introduce rent controls, do something about land hoarding and speculation and protecting tenants rights, all of which the Government is not really willing to do. In fact, most of …

It has not stopped them from being evicted.

Loads of people who have done nothing wrong are being evicted.

It is interesting that nobody else is here for this debate.

A couple of people are interested then. It is difficult to know what to say about this motion because on the face of it, a motion that calls for consistency in the implementation of penalties for breaching sanctions adopted by the EU seems reasonable. We should have consistency if we make a decision, on principled grounds, to impose penalties or restrictive measures on a particular regime or group of individuals because we feel collectively they have done something wrong. It seems reasonable to have a consistent ap…

They are the good guys. That must be it. When they bomb people to bits and kill a million people in Iraq, it is different because they are the good guys. When European countries arm the Saudi dictatorship so that it can carry on a war over exactly the same period of time as Putin has been at war with Ukraine, we say not a word. There are no sanctions and we continue to trade and have meetings with it. There is not even talk of sanctions. Apparently, we need consistency according to this resolution. To me, it is the…

Cashing in on high prices.

It is particularly appropriate that the Ceann Comhairle mentioned the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima as we mark the first anniversary of Putin's bloody, murderous and criminal invasion of Ukraine. The United States, the biggest power in the world, in two days with nuclear weapons incinerated more than 300,000 people. Today, Vladimir Putin, another nuclear power, said he is ramping up his nuclear arsenal and is considering withdrawing from the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, START. The Bulletin of the Atomic Sci…

It was the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Everybody is clear that Putin is a murderous tyrant and criminal warmonger. However, I quoted the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists which is made up of ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates who start by condemning Putin and then go on to urge NATO. The problem is that the Tánaiste has a blind spot when it comes to the equally bloody history of NATO and its major powers. The United States has never apologised for the use of nuclear weapons in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It still believes it has the right to possess them. The …

Will the Tánaiste call that a war crime? Will he say the Palestinians have the right to military resistance against what Israel is doing? Of course he will not because Israel is an ally of the United States. We will never prevent war if a neutral country has a blind spot about some of the warmongers in this world. A consistent position is opposing all nuclear powers, all warmongering powers, whether it is the-----

-----tyrannical regime of Russia or NATO and the western powers.

This is being done without the assent of this House.

They are.

The objectives of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill seem fairly laudable. The main purposes of the Bill are, as set out in the explanatory memorandum, to "recognise the prevention of harm to individuals, particularly those who are vulnerable or at risk, as an explicit objective of An Garda Síochána; provide a new coherent governance and oversight framework for policing that will strengthen both the internal management of An Garda Síochána and independent external oversight supporting clear and effect…

Maybe they were listening.