-----the worst possible crime?

Will the Government give us that debate?

A genocide.

We asked for a debate here and we asked for it at the Business Committee. It is a genocide.

Will the Government not give us the debate at least?

Can we have the debate?

Can we have an answer from the Government on whether it is going to allow for a debate on genocide? I mean, seriously, the Minister did not even answer. Is the Government going to give us a debate on a genocide that is happening and the ICJ case? It is shameful if it does not.

Maybe we could do what South Africa did.

It is a genocide.

We do not have it for weeks.

We used it in November and the Government voted it down.

It is a genocide.

History will judge harshly the people who stood by while the genocide was taking place and refused to call it for what it is and do as South Africa, a country that knows about apartheid and colonialism, has done. South Africa stood up, with an Irish legal representative who did this country proud, and presented an overwhelming case that Israel is guilty of the worst crime humanity can commit, genocide. Germany has, disgracefully, formally intervened on Israel's behalf. Ireland, a former colony which was subjected t…

The Palestinian people and the 60,000 or 70,000 people who were on the streets last weekend do not understand why the Government will not do this. Is it because it is afraid of America?

I thank Deputy Doherty and Sinn Féin for tabling this motion to highlight the malign influence of vulture funds and investment funds in helping to create, perpetuate and ever worsen the dire housing crisis that we face in this country, which is causing so much hardship for hundreds of thousands of people. It has contributed substantially to the record levels of homelessness and is locking out a whole generation of young working people from the possibility of ever owning their own home and crucifying them because th…

Christmas should be a time of joy, but for huge numbers of people it is a time of extreme financial pressure and hardship. James, who has worked all his life, had to go on a jobseeker's payment because of an injury that left him unable to do his old job. He went onto the back to education allowance. He has a wife and three children and because the Government has excluded people who have been on jobseeker's allowance for less than a year or who are on back to work and enterprise allowance, back to education allowanc…

-----for those one-off payments and fuel allowances-----

-----and additional payments to be extended to the people in those categories.

What about these groups?

No, it will not.