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betrayal of the Palestinian people. Let us be clear. The cradle of Israel's apartheid system and genocide in Gaza is the impunity gifted to it by the international community for decades. It has been given carte blanche to commit war crimes and human rights violations at will … accountability. Worse still, the words of support and common cause to the genocidal Netanyahu regime and the arming of Israel by the United States, Britain and others in Europe is an obscenity

housing in the city, in terms of who controls the land and the destiny of so many families. It is in the gift of the Government to change that. We in the Labour Party believe there is another way. In the constituency I represent, Dublin Central, very clear … which newly built homes could be made available for purchase. If the private sector cannot viably build apartments for purchase, then the State must step in. The horror of what the Taoiseach is now proposing is to condemn a generation of people to insecure renting and astronomical rents

that, but the fact is we are now dealing with what has been an abject failure for children and families. It has been stated by many already that we have all been contacted over many years by frustrated parents who cannot get their kids into school places … issues relating to planning, which rarely occur at a local authority point. However, the management of this used to be in the gift of schools but is not always, so at times this pushes it back and back. We all celebrate tiny victories at times when

must haul in Irish Water because it should be prepared for something like this happening again. That is in the Minister's gift and he needs to do it. Sadly, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Peter Burke, seems to have disappeared. A budget must … break because it was big lumps of forestry trees that came down on them. Another thing that needs to be addressed, both in State and private forestry, is trees that came down on an adjacent farmer's field blowing the fences out of it. I ask the Government