That is not true.

That is absolutely not true. It is rubbish.

Not here.

Members of Fianna Fáil met Putin. We never met Putin.

The Taoiseach's old boss met him.

A few of the Taoiseach's old mates are doing business there too.

Saudi Arabia especially.

We are just anti-war.

Some wars are good and some are bad for it.

The Taoiseach will not criticise the US.

The Taoiseach mentioned the Assembly elections in the North. People Before Profit is one of a few parties in this House that is also represented in the North, with an MLA in Belfast West. We run candidates across the constituencies and will hopefully challenge for new seats in Derry, with a bit of luck. People on the doorsteps are talking about the cost of living and the same issues that the Taoiseach's Government has failed to deal with, including the spiralling cost of living, energy prices and unaffordable rents…

How much time is there for them?

The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage made very reckless, irresponsible and somewhat bizarre comments on the rising homelessness situation at the weekend when he suggested that it was to do with the number of European Economic Area, EEA, and non-economic area refugees - which, by the way, is everybody in the world - coming into the country, but not Ukrainians. I find this a bizarre statement for him to make. This seems like reckless deflection but with a potentially dangerous subtext, which some o…

There is little doubt in my mind or I think in most people's minds that Russia has committed and is committing war crimes in Ukraine. Any efforts to hold them to account, to bring out the truth of those war crimes, to prosecute them and to deliver justice to the people who are victims of those crimes should be pursued. We absolutely must do that. However, I have little faith in the International Criminal Court. I say this because previously, in most cases in which it has been charged to look at these things in othe…

I am sure the Minister had reasons for leaving the Chamber, but I am disappointed he is not here to hear what I have to say because the situation is just getting worse. We can bandy around alternative policies and plans until the cows come home but seeing is believing. I want the Government to understand, if it does not already, that the situation has got decisively worse in the past few months. It needs to grasp that. There is real human misery. I emphasise that worsening situation predates the significant arrival…

I do not know what the latest figure is but in some years we give out between €80 million and €100 million in section 481 film tax relief. It is supposed to be about developing an industry and industry capacity but, time and again, when workers on film productions take cases to the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or try to assert their rights under the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003, the film producers who get the section 481 relief go into court and say they could have no possible employme…

On account of the campaigning of film workers, and issues I raised with the Minister, an undertaking was brought in that requires compliance with the relevant employment legislation. Specifically, and probably most important, it requires compliance with the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act, which means the people employed gain recognition of service. Under the operation of the law, they can gain contracts of indefinite duration even though the work is episodic. However, the employers are signing the Go…

Obviously, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, is more familiar with this matter. These companies are flouting the regulations. They are flouting them openly. They are signing the undertaking and then doing the exact opposite. Not only are they doing the exact opposite, they are saying there is no basis on which they can have employees. How can the Government give people tens of millions of euro, purely on the basis of creating quality employment and training, when those same people say publicly they cannot have employee…

They are not complying with it. Nobody is enforcing it.

Some of the companies do not make a film for another year-----