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failing to show and wait times of 30-40 minutes, often in heavy rain and poor weather and without a structure at the stop to protect them. That makes it even harder. These delays are causing problems. People are missing work. They are missing educational opportunities. They … some of these routes. I do not accept the level of service. I want the NTA to improve and to up its game, to step up and play ball. It must do better. If we are serious about meeting climate targets and if we want to encourage people

repeatedly in the course of the debate, calling for a ban on economic evictions, which we know works. We know it does not stop homelessness or people entering homelessness, but we know that it significantly slows it down. We know that because we have done it, and when … just the way it is. Some elements of the Government, backed up by some toxic parts of politics, are playing a dirty game of blaming not those at the top but the most vulnerable people in our society, suggesting that asylum seekers are adding to people in emergency

through. He was out locking up his GAA club, as many volunteers across the Thirty-two Counties do. It is our national game. He was so cruelly executed. If we have legislation here as a result of this or in the future, we cannot possibly have a situation … cycle, was a travesty of injustice. The driver of that car and his accomplices had numerous custodial sentences hanging over them, were stopped at a Garda checkpoint and should not have been allowed to go on. We saw the battle that Lucia Farrell has had on her hands

need to go for planning permission when they are more than seven years at it. They have planning acquired by being in the game for seven years. I ask the Minister of State to take stock of that. I want him to know also what is happening about … Taoiseach, he said a blanket ban could not be right, even though he signed the document that means people are being stopped from coming out on national primary or national secondary roads. In 2012, it was he who signed it into law. However, he said afterwards, when

There can be no other explanation for what the Government is doing with this Bill. My amendment No. 1 sought, in essence, to stop the Bill until the Government had looked at what its impact would be on the affordability of rents, had addressed the issue … increases, eventually jack up the rents again and get around the existing RPZs. That is what they do. The landlords play the long game. They inflict misery on the tenants. They try to evict people, eventually drive them out and sit on the properties, in this case