Having submitted a question, seriously?

The grouping was not over-----

That is just out of order.

You are out of order.

There was an announcement today about the opening of the mother and baby redress scheme arising from the legislation around that scheme. There is widespread anger among people who went through the mother and baby institutions over the arbitrary six-month rule and exclusions from the redress scheme. I have never heard an answer from the Minister or the Government as to that arbitrary six-month rule. I am an adoptee and any adoptee or psychologist, or anybody who knows anything about children, will know the impact of…

The Taoiseach rejected our call, and the call of huge numbers of people across the world, to boycott Joe Biden because of his complicity with the genocidal massacre that Israel is committing and the fact that he has armed Israel to the teeth and enabled it to commit that massacre. Did the Taoiseach ask him to stop arming Israel? Mary Robinson echoed the calls of millions of people throughout the world who were saying that were the United States and western governments to stop arming Israel, it would not be able to …

It is shameful that the Taoiseach and other Government and Opposition representatives are going to the White House to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Joe Biden who he is complicit in the genocidal massacre Israel has conducted against the people of Gaza. It will be even worse if it is revealed the recent massive jump in the number of flights carrying weapons through Irish airspace has anything to do with the massacre in Gaza. There was a significant jump in the number of flights carrying weapons that went mostly t…

Are we checking this? Are we complicit with the genocide?

She did not say that.

Sorry.

Absolute nonsense.

What about Shannon?

In order to solve the absolutely disastrous housing situation we are in and the human misery that is wrecking the lives of the 13,500 people who are homeless and the hundreds of thousands of young people and working people who are absolutely locked out of the possibility of ever owning their own home and who, increasingly, are leaving the country because of that or because they cannot even find a rental property, we need to understand how we got to this situation. The simple answer is that people who want to make m…

The Union of Students in Ireland, USI, just held a briefing on the student accommodation crisis, with a particular emphasis on digs accommodation. I encourage the Government to read its survey. It pointed out that purpose-built student accommodation is needed, the Government has not delivered it in sufficient quantities, and many students are being forced into digs accommodation, which is not regulated. While some of it is good, much of it is very problematic in terms of rents, people being pushed out at the weeken…

It is all about commodifying intellectual property.

Is that for the whole group?

Okay. I am moving these series of amendments-----

I have seven minutes to speak to all of those amendments.

I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “ “researchers’ representative group” means— (a) a trade union which is the holder of a negotiation licence under Part II of the Trade Union Act 1941, or (b) any independent and self-governing body, recognised by a higher education provider, research body or by the Minister, that is established for the purpose of promoting the general interests of postgraduate researchers, and of representing such postgraduate researchers, both indiv…

First of all, in terms of not having a representative board, I would like to point out that the European Research Council has a different approach. Researchers and scientists from all disciplines are in the driving seat. The people whom the Minister described as having competency are told what to do by the researchers and scientists. That is the way it should be, in my opinion. I disagree with the Minister on that. A research council should be driven by people who work in research and who have expertise in the diff…