The Minister does not bother his backside to turn up for two housing debates in a row and the Government refuses to discuss for nine months the Housing Commission report which provided a damning indictment of the failures of Government housing policy. Why? It is because the Government does not want to solve the housing crisis. It does not care about the people who have been on housing lists for a decade or more or families and children in emergency accommodation, people who are quaking with fear because they are th…

Vital bus routes and public transport services should not only run if a private company can make a profit out of them. A private company, Aircoach, has just announced that it is going to cut several routes, including one that goes through my area. The cut means there will no longer be a route going from Shankill, Ballybrack and Loughlinstown to Dublin Airport. Bus drivers in my area are telling me that the No. 7 route is possibly to be handed over to Go-Ahead Ireland. That is a company that made losses last year an…

It is an Aircoach route.

Yes, get rid of your phone and computer. I wish I could.

Absolutely.

Adam Smith knew.

Most technology can be used either to benefit human beings or for malign purposes. I do not trust the people who control this technology, or the people who dominate the political scene in most of the world, to use this technology to the benefit of society. One of the best films ever made in my opinion - if you have not watched it, you should - is Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times", in which he brilliantly satirises the impact of Fordist industrial technology to deepen the exploitation of human beings, and turn human …

Please, if we could-----

We have been asking for-----

What we get is very different.

Hear, hear.

We will pay higher bills with the Taoiseach's policy.

Who told you that, Elon Musk?

I was grimly amused by the Taoiseach's suggestion earlier today that he was calling for a housing debate.

We have been asking every week since the publication of the 250-page Housing Commission report - commissioned by the Government - for a debate on that report and the Government has run away from it every single week for nine months, and again this week. Can we finally have the debate the Taoiseach says he wants on the Housing Commission report that the Government published? Of course, we know he does not want to debate it because it tells the truth about the Government's failed housing policy, how its targets are c…

How do you know? You will not debate it.

You have been saying that for nine months. Nine months you have been saying it for.

Talk about untruths.

But you do not turn up for those debates.

We want the Minister to come in and talk about the Housing Commission.