Mary Lou McDonald

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

Which one? What was unparliamentary?

I thought it was a most appropriate comment.

That is absolute rubbish.

You are welcome to.

Where?

We teach life, sir. We Palestinians teach life after they have occupied the last sky. We teach life after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls, after the last skies. We teach life, sir. How many Palestinian lives can Israel steal? How many Hind Rajabs? How many mothers, fathers, doctors, nurses or farmers? Is there a point? Is there a red line or a bottom line? How many farms …

In last October's budget of €9.4 billion, the Government made the very cruel decision to leave disabled people worse off by €1,400. Since then, life has become so much harder for everybody, but all the more so if one is a disabled person who has fallen further and further behind. Our Dáil motion yesterday called on the Government to do two things. First, to deliver an emergency €500 cost of disabi…

The Government tried to cut them.

Is the Government reopening the July provision?

Is the Government reopening the July provision?

The Taoiseach mumbles. He does not enunciate clearly.

You do not enunciate clearly. You mumbled. I did not hear what you said.

These are important issues and it is important when the Head of Government addresses them that he is audible, clear and I can hear him. It is not a case of whether the Taoiseach agrees with me or not. He seems singularly unable to acknowledge the real experience of disabled people who are telling him, and have told him for quite some time, that they are struggling financially. At times, they have …

She talks about the uncertainty, the exhaustion, the guilt and the anger.

Can the Taoiseach please tell everybody that he is guaranteeing a school place for every child? Is he reopening the July provision?

Will every child have a school place?

It seems that there is no end to RTÉ's sense of entitlement in its attitude to the spending of public money or to the lack of oversight in that regard by the Government. This morning, I read that since 2021, the State broadcaster has splashed out - get this - €230,000 on limousine rides for celebrities, dignitaries and presenters. These are not to be confused with common or garden taxis. It spends…

-----of taxpayers' money.

Cuirimid fáilte roimh an Teachta Ennis agus an Teachta Kyne sa Teach. The Minister for foreign affairs has brought draft legislation to the Cabinet which will ban trade in goods from the occupied Palestinian territories. On the Taoiseach's way into the Cabinet this morning, he made it clear that services are to be excluded, so the Government has taken a wrecking ball to the original occupied terr…

Eventually.

The Irish people have always taken a principled and morally ethical stance on the question of Palestine. Of that there is no doubt. Unfortunately, the Irish Government has not followed suit. The truth and the honest position are that the Government has had to be dragged into taking any kind of positive stance, facing down the impunity of Israel and accepting that until there are consequences for I…

It has.

Yes.