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raised the issue of stopping the game two weeks ago and I said at the time that the Minister of State’s response was a cop-out. His response tonight is again an absolute cop-out. The amendment he tabled is another cop-out. I am a season

institutions. That helps the hospital. I ask the Minister of State speak to the managers to get an absolute assurance to stop playing games with privatisation. Whatever about the response they have given him, it is not borne out by the facts on ground I am seeing

given us a chance to reform planning laws urgently, limit irrelevant and vexatious objections, fast-track water and sewerage infrastructure and basically stop the blame game. Everybody is pointing the finger but nothing is getting done. We would prioritise housing projects that have been stuck in limbo

Government that they do not want this game to go ahead. Show solidarity with the people experiencing genocide, solidarity with Palestine and stop this fucking game

Taoiseach has brushed aside growing calls to stop Ireland's Nations League fixture against Israel while the genocide continues against the Palestinian people. His response and that of the Government have been utterly disingenuous. Nobody is asking the Government … usurp the role of UEFA or the FAI. The Taoiseach is being asked to show leadership, support the position that this game must be stopped, protect Irish players from any repercussions, provide the political, diplomatic and financial backing necessary to make that position sustainable and protect

hosting, bidding for or competing in international sporting events? Will the Government follow that precedent through, apply the same to Israel and stop this second game from happening? Third, following on from what Deputy Coppinger said, will the Government send an observer to the Ulm 5 trial

facing homelessness on an unprecedented scale and it has to be addressed and looked at as an emergency. We need to stop playing political games with it and realise that in the next year or so, 7,000 will become 10,000. That is the reality. My constituents

Something communities like mine experience a lot more than other more affluent communities is being stopped and searched. When I was growing up in north Clondalkin, we used to play a game. I would be going to the shop for my mother when … young and I would be stopped and searched. This happened all the time, so we used to have a game to see whose turn it was to get stopped and searched. We would have nothing apart from our football boots with us; it was just a part

that, yet you come in here and deliberately distort the truth in terms of the legislation. It is about time you stopped playing these kind of games because we are dealing with people here too - human beings - and all Sinn Féin is interested in is exploiting

clearest when he arrived back in Ireland from the World Cup: "Some things are bigger than football ... The game for me has to be stopped. It shouldn't be played". Tonight, delegates at an FAI extraordinary general meeting will vote on whether Ireland should play Israel. I hope … apartheid, should be isolated, not played. Will the Taoiseach assure the delegates that if they do the right thing by not playing the game, the Government will step in to ensure there is no loss to Irish football as a result

position taken by the FAI very clear. There is no consensus at European level that would ban or stop Israel from competing in these games. It is then a decision as to whether our teams would pull out. It is not for me as Minister to tell

Israelis have done all over the world and continue to do. We do not support that. I am concerned about stopping our Irish team from playing a game and I wonder whether it may have far-reaching repercussions for them. The players have trained and come this … want to proceed? It should be up to them. I do not want to see the Israelis coming here to play a game. Maybe it should be played in some neutral country. I have to know more about what implications this will have for the team. We remember

show speaking with the two Ministers, Deputies Chambers and Donohoe. The two Ministers were way off their game. She was able to tell them to stop talking high nonsense and explain that although she is getting an extra €10, more is coming out of her pocket. She explained

device design, particularly where these things are clearly aimed at attracting children and teenagers. I support measures to stop the production and sale of devices that resemble toys or games or that are effectively gamified nicotine products. This is reprehensible and indefensible … think that is a real risk. If the effect of this measure is to push some people back towards smoking, or to stop some smokers switching in the first place, then that is a serious mistake. This Bill should start with a limited number of flavours

deal. Sinn Féin representatives in every single year since have been urging the Government to stop this deal. Rather than heeding those calls, the Government played an absolutely obscene game of duplicity, pretending to farmers that it was opposed to this European trade deal with the Mercosur states

with misogyny, funnelled through algorithmic hate. This is where violent men are now being made, in bedrooms, gaming chats and social media apps, and we are doing almost nothing to stop it. The Government has to act. We must implement the recommendations of Women

bringing this to my attention. I was not aware of it but it needs to be stopped. There are enough challenges for people trying to get these tests without somebody gaming the system and exploiting people looking for a test. I will raise it in the first instance

morphed into this genocide on the Israeli side, is never-ending. It will only stop when the fundamentalists on both sides realise that it is a zero-sum game and that all they are going to do is to keep killing, whatever about claims from anyone that their

also continue to use our influence to persuade the international community to take appropriate action and stop this conflict. However, we should not reduce this issue to one or two football games or events. For good reasons, governments should not interfere with international sports federations or NGBs, particularly

issue of geo-blocking last year and highlighted how unfair it was when RTÉ stopped broadcasts of its news bulletins in the North of Ireland, including news from the 2024 Olympic Games. Despite RTÉ News resuming broadcasting in the North, it was simply not good enough that RTÉ

There is precedent for stopping these fixtures. In 1999, the then Fianna Fáil government prevented the Euro 2000 qualifier between Ireland and Yugoslavia because of Serbian atrocities in Kosovo and in 2022, FIFA and UEFA banned Russia from all club and international games after Poland and Sweden refused … hardship, permanent siege, apartheid and it is doing this to drive Palestinian Christians out of their homeland. Israel must be brought to book. Stopping the Irish-Israel fixtures would be a small but vital step in that direction

honest about it, because those blockades stopped people getting to work and hospital, and carers getting to elderly people. I do not really want to get involved in recriminations and playing the blame game. What is much more important is that we look at it through a lens

they did to bring a nation to a stop and then break our hearts. More recently, in Prague, we thought we were on the cusp of achieving World Cup qualification. Some 1.6 million viewers tuned in for that game. That just shows how much interest there

simply playing political games. What divides us here is how the resources we do have to help have been deployed and on what basis. The truth is that close to €750 million was dished out to a noisy group that stopped much of the country from getting

from unscheduled care makes perfect sense. The surgical hubs which are being rolled out will help somewhat in that regard but the biggest game changer will be elective hospitals. I have raised with the Minister, head of the HSE and Secretary General of the Department of Health … been stopped because of potential conflicts of interest but hundreds of millions of euro are being spent. The same is happening with outsourcing through the NTPF. We are not building elective hospitals and will not fund 3,000 beds. Elective hospitals, which are a big game changer, will