It busted out of the UN partition plan immediately.

The People Before Profit-Solidarity motion is very different from that of the Government or any of the Opposition parties but it is very much in line with the view of the overwhelming majority of Palestinians. What it attempts to convey is the truth about the nature of the Israeli regime, which is not a legitimate actor or a normal state. It is a terrorist state and an apartheid state. It is a state that has been built from its inception, on the day in, day out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the establishment of…

I move amendment No. 3: To delete all the words after "That Dáil Éireann" and to substitute with the following: "— expresses horror at the indiscriminate killing and targeting of civilians in the current terrible escalation of violence between Israel and the Palestinians; — condemns as an atrocity and war crime the bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza city which has claimed the lives of at least 500 innocent people and holds Israel wholly responsible for the atrocity; — rejects any inference that Israel’…

The Taoiseach said that it is not okay for Israel to attack civilians and civilian infrastructure and to threaten to starve the people of Gaza. It most certainly is not okay; it is a war crime. The Israeli Government has brazenly, publicly and openly declared its intention to commit a war crime, and has commenced that war crime against the people of Gaza. It has said it intends to starve 2.2 million people of food, electricity and water. That is a war crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israel is raining down…

I want to see an end to all killing, all violence, all death, and the release of all prisoners and hostages.

The problem here is that I do not believe an apartheid regime has the right to exist anywhere. I do not believe a regime that engages in ongoing daily, weekly and monthly ethnic cleansing of another group of people based on their race or ethnicity-----

-----which is what Israel is doing, has the right to perpetrate those crimes. These are crimes against humanity. This is a regime that for decades has denied UN resolutions calling for the right of return of Palestinians, millions of whom have been ethnically cleansed since 1948, and are living in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, cast to the winds of the world. They are denied statehood, denied identity, denied history and they have the right to return, but Israel shoots them down if they try and assert …

Of course, he will not.

I am disappointed with the Taoiseach's remarks.

Millions of Palestinians have no rights and no votes.

I lived there; I know exactly what it is like.

Faced with an utterly catastrophic housing and homelessness crisis and with unprecedented resources available to it, this Government did absolutely nothing in its budget to deliver additional social and affordable housing. It has decided, in its bloody-minded way, to stick to a plan that has left us with record and ever-worsening numbers of people in homelessness and where rents are absolutely stratospheric and unaffordable for the vast majority of young people and working people, as are house prices. The Governmen…

The Government is backing the corporations and forgetting about the thousands of postgraduate researchers holding our universities together.

That is a year's time.

The Government is seeking to dazzle and fool people with once-off measures but the reality is that poverty, deprivation, financial hardship and inequality are not once-off phenomena. They are systemic, and once-off measures will simply not cut it. Despite the attempts to dazzle people with these once-off measures, the net fact, when you look closely at this budget, is that taking into account the cost-of-living hikes, the rise in inflation and increasing rents, ordinary workers will be worse off afterwards. People …

People Before Profit will always oppose this measure, which is a fairly significant increase this year, of 75 cent per packet of cigarettes. We do so because, of course, we completely support the view we need to reduce the number of smokers and the number of people who take up smoking and to encourage people to stop smoking. There is absolutely no question as to how bad it is for your health, but the fact is smokers are addicts and a huge number of people who smoke became addicted many years ago and are being punis…

Ahead of next Tuesday's budget, trade unionists, pensioners, students, people with disabilities, housing activists and many more will meet on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Parnell Square to march to Leinster House. They will be marching because they are being absolutely crucified with the cost-of-living crisis and the housing and accommodation crisis. Mortgage holders are paying thousands of euro extra in interest. Hundreds of thousands of householders are in arrears with their energy bills. Families are hammered with chil…

-----and fund our public services to redistribute the wealth that exists in the country and give it to the many and stop protecting the few who control all that wealth?

What I do not believe is that in one of the wealthiest countries in the world it is acceptable for us to have record numbers of families and, worst of all, children living in homeless accommodation. I do not accept that a whole generation of young people are being crucified with unaffordable rents and can never hope to own their own home. I do not accept that there are now more than 250,000 people in arrears with their energy bills because of energy price hikes. I do not accept that 17% of the population suffer dep…

Is the Government going to address that inequality? Is it going to use-----