Has the Taoiseach forgotten about Afghanistan?

We are asking for a bit longer.

Half an hour on Thursday. It is simple.

Half an hour extra on Thursday. That is not a lot.

The Taoiseach is being disingenuous because he does not support sanctions against Israel.

We are asking for half an hour on Thursday.

So are crimes against humanity.

Does that mean that they could come in if there was time on Thursday?

Except in Yemen and Palestine.

The Taoiseach only talks about some bad guys.

People are shocked at the extent of the pay and pay increases for the Secretary General of the Department of Health and the pay level for the head of the HSE. How can the Government justify that when at the same time it is willing to stand over the fact that ordinary workers in the health service, in education and in local authorities are held down to 1% or 2% pay increases when inflation is running at 5%? Following a briefing at the Department of Finance today, the breaking news is that the Department is estimatin…

The Taoiseach referred to the NESC report No. 28, which came out in December. One of the things to which that report referred was the issue of incorporating social and economic rights into policymaking. Today, the Minister referred the issue of housing to the Housing Commission in respect of a possible referendum. I want to pin the Taoiseach down as to what his view is on this issue. People Before Profit put forward a constitutional amendment Bill, which was passed by the Dáil, seeking to incorporate the right to s…

Tell Coillte to stop selling the forests.

Sorry for standing up at the wrong time.

Eager.

The Taoiseach’s Department's strategy statement lists a number of priorities. Priority E is, “Strengthening Ireland’s place in Europe and the world”. In the context of the current crisis, invasion and war in Ukraine, I want to know what that means. What is our role in this? Obviously, all of us believe that Putin should be stopped, that he should leave Ukraine and that his invasion is inexcusable. Yet, I worry deeply about the comments by the Tánaiste earlier, which were about closer co-operation with the project o…

-----and which failed to acknowledge, for example, that it conducted a bloody invasion and occupation very recently in Afghanistan and that it bombed Libya. I wonder is the Taoiseach's opposition to warmongers like Putin selective insofar as we seem to oppose some warmongers but not others. We had briefing today with people from Yemen. They asked why no action is being taken over the role of the United States, Britain and France in arming the Saudi dictatorship to allow it to conduct a disastrous war that has claim…

Why?

Yemeni lives are less important.

Yes, because they are selling guns to the Saudis.