As Mayo people, and as people across the west, we are extremely proud of Knock Airport. Where people are coming to Limerick and the mid-west region, and to Ireland in general because people will stay all over the place when they are attending the Ryder Cup, they will be able to access the golf courses and there will be a lot of joined-up thinking. I see, certainly in Limerick, that a lot of young people have taken up golf in recent times in anticipation of the Ryder Cup coming.
Senator Mark Duffy spoke about the 40th anniversary of Knock Airport, the "foggy, boggy runway" as it was called and paid tribute to the vision of Monsignor Horan, a man who was larger than life and an incredible force of nature. Senator Sarah O'Reilly spoke about energy costs and in particular the energy costs for homeowners and renters as opposed to the energy demands for business.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 2,374 words from 11 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Senators Cathal Byrne and Paul Daly; Níl, Senators Chris Andrews and Pauline Tully.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–25 |
| Question put: | Carried | 25–14 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–21 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–20 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–21 |
Party shown is the one each member held on 2026-05-28, frozen by a dated join — not their party today. The Oireachtas API publishes no date of birth and returns an empty gender field for every member in this period, so no age or gender breakdown is shown.