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Tuesday. Yet, the Minister for Justice has now indicated that new laws would be introduced to give gardaí greater powers to stop and search people who they suspect of carrying knives. My question to the Minister, Deputy McEntee, is straightforward. As a former Minister for Justice who made

legislation until last night, when he indicated new laws would need to be introduced to give gardaí greater powers to stop and search people they suspect of carrying knives. Can the Taoiseach or the Minister tell the Dáil when the Government became aware that existing knife crime powers

Síochána. That is part of the solution. Another part has to be powers for An Garda Síochána in order that gardaí can stop and search people so that they can seize knives from them if they suspect they are carrying knives. The Deputy will be aware

colleague, Deputy Daly, his father lost his life in the Whiddy Island disaster. That has clearly motivated him to try to stop other families from enduring the same cruelty, unnecessary cruelty in many instances. It is about learning the lessons of tragedies and ensuring they are not repeated … might recall it is about fishermen and a terrible weather occurrence on the east coast of the United States. I remember how the search and rescue team was sent out. It was an incredible movie in how it conveyed the unbelievable danger people endure when they are sent

previously and for this we should be eternally grateful. However, this week in my constituency many people from Ukraine - who came here in search of sanctuary and found a home, placed their children in schools, made friendships in the community, joined our sports teams and became part … have heard reports of such things, is cruel, unjust and re-traumatising those who previously had to uproot their lives. It should be stopped. Ukraine suffered a brutal invasion three years ago. Three years on, it is the United States that is looking to strip it of parts

were told it was essential enough to buy but not essential enough to actually switch on and for seven years the National Gallery searched for a room to fit this scanner. Columbus found the new world faster than the National Gallery of Ireland found a room in which … heart of the fiasco factory that the Government has become. My question to him is: how he will make it stop

tool like ChatGPT takes an enormous amount of energy. A search on ChatGPT uses around ten times more energy than a Google search. AI is proliferating rapidly and, with it, the ever-growing need for data centres. We really do need to concern ourselves with the amount … country, yet there is nothing in the draft rules to state that data centres must be powered with clean energy. What is stopping data centres from importing and using more dirty fuel at precisely the time we should be moving away from this? The CRU must clarify