The Government is deceiving the public about the reference to addressing the crises in our health service. It claimed there was no recruitment embargo. Last week, health workers from all health unions were protesting about the pay and numbers strategy, an effective embargo which means we have unsafe staffing levels in our hospitals. In my own area, we had a meeting with many workers and other people from St. Michael’s Hospital, Loughlinstown hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital, all citing chronic understaffing and the…

It is outrageous that the debate on this Bill is being guillotined. I still do not fully understand all the implications of the legislation. This way of proceeding is wrong. As my party's spokesperson on housing, I consider myself fairly clued in and focused on the issues. This legislation is not being given adequate scrutiny as to what precisely it does. That is a problem and a matter of concern to me. I listened to what the Minister said earlier about the Bill and I will listen to what the Minister of State says …

As we speak, nurses, midwives, health professionals and healthcare workers are protesting outside the HSE headquarters. They are also protesting in Cork. Many of them are balloting for industrial action. Last night in my area I organised a protest about the health service. It was packed to the rafters with healthcare workers from St. Michael's Hospital, Loughlinstown hospital and the local community. All were outraged by and extremely worried about the unsafe staffing levels across the health service and angered th…

That is not the question.

So pay and numbers does not exist.

The Government is deceiving the public. Pay and numbers is a Department of public expenditure policy.

Unsafe.

I contacted the Minister some time ago about this case. On 7 October, 29 residents, including ten children, six family groups and two additional married couples, all of whom are Ukrainians fleeing the war and are living in a former commercial building in the Blackrock-Stillorgan area, will have to leave. They have been there since Christmas 2022. The children are at school, many, if not most, of the adults are working and they are integrated into the community. The community wants them to stay and the person who ow…

There is a deadline looming and what we are doing about it is not clear to the community people supporting the residents and the residents because it is next Monday. It is very instructive to look at who these residents are in terms of the employment in which they are engaged. One is a pharmacist assistant, one is a lab worker in UCD, one is a construction worker, one is a carpenter, one is a carer for elderly people, one is a school caretaker and cleaner, one is a kitchen porter, one is a cashier and shop assistan…

That sounds positive and I will relay back what the Minister is saying but why bring problems upon or put extra pressure on himself or discommode these people and the local community when it is not necessary? Hopefully, that solution will work. I know that in terms of contacting the Department of Social Protection about rent supplement, that has not been fully processed. Perhaps the Minister could do something about that. I am not sure what the compliance issues were. The owner of the property said that it was more…

This is not for tourism.

Israel's ongoing genocidal, year-long massacre in Gaza and now its savage assault on Lebanon have triggered a terrifying escalation of conflict and violence that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East. It is worth saying that the state that is guilty of this massacre in Gaza and that is attacking Lebanon has nuclear weapons and has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. This is a state for which there is no atrocity it is unwilling to commit, no butchery or massacre that it is not willing to perp…

We will see. Why does the Government still refuse to pass that Bill? Why does it not ban all overflights of weapons being carried by Israel? The Government denied that such flights were happening but now we know that they were happening in Irish airspace. Why does it not ban all flights carrying weapons through Shannon Airport? Why does it refuse to condemn the United States for continuing to provide the missiles and weapons that Israel is using in Lebanon and has used against the people of Gaza? Why does the Gover…

-----the US military to use Shannon when it is up to its neck in the crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza and Lebanon and which are now threatening to escalate into an all-out regional war?

I am not in favour of military escalation of this by any side but I will not engage in "on the one hand, on the other hand."

No.

I am not.

Somebody is responsible for all of this.

Somebody is responsible for all of this.

I will tell the Taoiseach who is responsible. It is the State of Israel that invaded Lebanon in 1982, invaded it in 1996, invaded it in 2006 and invaded it again in 2024.