These are consistent principles.

We have taken sides in a conflict between military blocs.

This morning, I attended the press launch of the Raise the Roof campaign at which trade unions, student unions, housing groups, anti-poverty groups and many more, including Opposition parties, outlined details of the national housing demonstration that will take place in Dublin city centre on the Saturday after next. We expect many thousands of people to take to the streets to demand action that has not been forthcoming from the Government to address the shameful, intolerable, ever-worsening housing and homelessnes…

-----to a referendum whereby the people could debate and vote on whether they want to be part of this dangerous agreement.

No, I did not. I connected the housing issue to CETA.

I am saying it is another reason with CETA.

Does the Taoiseach want parallel courts to cover it?

We can develop trade between Canada and any other country without introducing a system that bypasses the court system and which favours multinational investors. I will tell the Taoiseach what I do not want, and this is the connection between housing and CETA. I do not want what has happened to the United States, which is that the National Apartment Association, which represents big investors in apartments, has taken the US federal court to court through the investor court system and is claiming billions in losses b…

The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, told this House that we could not ban further fossil fuel extraction because of the threat of possible legal action by fossil fuel companies.

Do not say this is a red herring. It is true, and you will not even let people have a say on it.

Eamon Ryan told this House we would be sued.

The Taoiseach should read Eamon Ryan's comments on the climate emergency Bill.

Read the judgment.

Once again, we have further evidence of the Government trying to soften up public opinion to abandon Ireland's neutrality. In respect of the Ukraine conflict, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, stated that we were not neutral. This begs the question of what neutrality means if we abandon it when there is a conflict. The Minister went on to say that people should talk to the Russians. We all condemn Putin's bloody invasion of Ukraine, but is it not precisely the role of a neutral country to be the voi…

Agreed.

That is the Government position but it is not Ireland’s position.

It is an outrageous invasion, but the Government did not say this about the Iraq war in the context of neutrality-----

And sacrifice everything else.

Sacrifice everything else.

Give it all to housing.