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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

incidents like this that find their way into the public domain. Violent brawls, racist attacks, abusive actions and bullying are also considered fair game for recording. Blackmail is commonly used to threaten the victims, who live in fear of the content being made public or being sent … presence and it is saturating the minds of people of all ages. It is destroying lives and we seem powerless to stop it. Our impressionable young people who are growing up in a world that is dominated by social media are being bombarded by inappropriate content that

listened to the debate in my office today. The industry will be decimated, full stop. We have seen it with the fishing industry. We cannot say we went out and bargained for this, that and the other. The fishing industry was sold out. We should have a fishing … Ursula and her buddies because they paid off another country during the week with millions and millions of euro. This is how the game works. It is absolutely farcical that we are here and we have been waiting so long for this. I have listened to other speakers

need to insist the company also plays its role. I have a similar complaint about ESB Networks. It is simply behind the game in relation to the sites that are coming on. Regarding sites that are ready to be built, there are number of contractors in Kilkenny … beside a derelict site. The builder wants to go ahead and develop it. He should be able to do so. The only agency stopping him is the housing authority, which is Kilkenny County Council. It is absolutely farcical that this would be allowed to continue. Sites such

provide, governments brought in every possible scheme to support the market, the HAP scheme being absolutely the worst, which became the only game in town. It is really important. Today I heard an interview with a Mr. O'Driscoll on the new infrastructure taskforce and I was singularly … misquoting and misusing of figures. We also absolutely made local authorities non-existent in relation to the provision of housing. We stopped building housing in Galway in 2009. We never built a single other house until about 2020. An integral part of the solution is public housing

those stadiums are sheds. They are simply not fit for purpose and will not encourage younger people to get involved in the game or thousands of people to come out and support their clubs. In the time remaining, I want to talk about grassroots football, because that … grow by being provided with access modern facilities. This is something that previous Ministers for Sport said was a great idea. Unfortunately, it stopped at that. I plead with the Minister of State to investigate this idea, which we in the Labour Party have brought forward previously. Shared

food. They have shot them dead where they stood waiting for food. It is like a real-life version of "The Hunger Games" but this is not a fictional film. This is real life and these are real people getting murdered as they queue for the most basic … will not start saying we need X, Y and Z in this peace deal; what I will say is that we need to stop the slaughter, the genocide and the bombs. Everything else can be sorted with dialogue but right now what the Palestinian people need

protect others so they do not have to go through what they went through. Imagine being a young child, happily playing games dreaming of what you want to be when you grow up, feeling safe and loved when suddenly that world is shattered. The person you believed loved … date. The abuser who may never see themselves as the problem may walk straight back out of prison with nothing in place to stop them returning to their victim - no safeguards, no protection, nothing. Right now across Ireland, there are children cowering in their bedrooms, children being abused

this to acknowledge a visit he made with me to Cloughjordan in my constituency last November. This visit involved a number of stops, one of which was Scohaboy Bog, which is a rewetting project in north Tipperary. It is extremely successful and it is Tipperary's leading peatland … forum. Another issue I want to raise relates to the review of the memorandum of understanding agreed with the National Association of Regional Game Councils, NARGC. I last raised this issue in the House in October. It was announced that a review of the memorandum of understanding with

also involves a crackdown on child appeal. It involves standardised packaging and sensible limits on colours and imagery for devices - no toys, games or novelty shapes and a clear simple approach to flavours with basic descriptors only. Point-of-sale display and advertising will be removed from general … give them clarity and a fair, firm timeline and then hold the line. Our objective is simple - fewer children starting, more adults stopping and less litter on our streets. If this legislation means no more bubblegum "unicorn" vapes at the till, that is a positive outcome

positive agenda for change" and that we face historic opportunities. He is always good at grandiose claims at the beginning of the game of politics. I am old enough to remember that last time he told us housing was the priority and that he would sort out housing … formation of this Government. The question for the Taoiseach that he has not answered is simply this: what changed? When did he stop considering Deputy Lowry to be a rogue politician? When did he go from viewing him as someone unfit to hold public office to viewing

passionate League of Ireland fan. I am at my happiest in Richmond Park cheering on St. Pat's. I travel to games up and down the country. However, the FAI has branded the stadiums in the League of Ireland as archaic, and I have to agree with … absolutely disproportionate. In fact, it was snobbery towards soccer fans. It was like putting a plague on all our houses. Threatening to stop the funding for a whole league because of the action of a few is collective punishment. How dare he? As a League of Ireland

programme about politics or tune into anything to do with politics. This means a lot to people. The roll-out of this game in this country or another country has ignited a flame for many people who probably just go to football matches and never think about politics … genocide. If people can picture that in their minds, they will realise the importance of making sure that this match is stopped. The world can see exactly what is going on with the genocide on the Palestinian people and what the Israeli Government is doing. Having that flag

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

being treated differently? Here in Ireland, we have our own history of taking principled positions. In 1999, the Government intervened to prevent a game involving Yugoslavia because of atrocities taking place in Kosovo. The principle was clear, namely, that there are moments when events become so grave that … does not exist in a vacuum. Every generation is tested. Every generation faces moments when remaining silent becomes the choice itself. Sport cannot stop war, rebuild a city or bring back those who have been lost, but sport can send a message. It can declare that human rights

Government. There were public meetings and petitions. I remember holding a public meeting when my daughter was a baby, and she started playing games about pyrite because she had attended so many meetings. It was not granted to people but had to be fought and battled … been allowed to thrive. The Galway tent was mentioned. I know we have State funding of political parties now but it has not stopped the Government from bowing in front of the building industry. It is unbelievable that a levy of 5% ends up being paid

whataboutery. The Labour Party spoke earlier about having a moratorium on data centres. That is a Trumpian policy. It is essentially saying to stop funding something altogether because we have a concern about it and that we will worry about all the problems when we have decided what … also in contributing to the investment that we need to see in the renewable energy sector. This is not a zero-sum game. The debate has complexity. We have to be honest about that and reflect that. As Mario Draghi's recent report highlighted, Europe is falling behind

concern that the bias that is already in place will unintentionally be reinforced by AI. The AI office could be a trusted one-stop shop to also engage in advocacy and literacy. I welcome the enforcement mechanisms and sanctions. It seems the Bill will give us robust oversight … protection in this Bill. As I said, AI features are now embedded into almost everything they do, from daily Internet searches and their gaming to the educational tools within their classrooms. On every single screen a child touches, AI is now a feature. The fundamental rights agencies will

powers like Germany, France, Italy and other countries who will veto that. It is a recipe for inaction. There is nothing stopping the Government acting alone. Slovenia and Spain, the countries Ireland was working with to get the resolution recently, have brought in similar occupied territories legislation. What … 1990s? Because the Serbs attacked the Bosnians, he did not issue visas. Charlie Haughey was a similar character. He told the IRFU the game was up, literally, in terms of going to apartheid South Africa. The political leadership now has not even got the gumption to do that

extension of the bus corridor to the M3 Parkway and the announcement of the increase in rail services. That will be a game-changer. On the bus in the morning, I might take a photo of the traffic backed up along by Kepak. At that stage … works with me suggested to the NTA something which we see in other jurisdictions, namely a simple QR code at a bus stop that can be scanned. Otherwise, people have to log on to the TFI website, which is cumbersome. People are worried at that point

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

will soon become Taoiseach of the country. He had a great go at us on RTÉ yesterday. That is part of the game. This is a very serious issue. I am very critical of the Green Party because it spent four or five years in government … tells us the world is moving on but Ireland is a laggard in terms of movement on renewables. Technologies could reduce pollution and stop the habit of using taxation as a substitute for solutions. Right now people see more tax, more lectures and very little practical help

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

hand, the Government has suggested it is opposed to the deal but, on the other, it does not do anything to block or stop it when it goes to Europe. It had ample opportunity over recent years to build an alliance with other countries across Europe to block … product coming in from Mercosur countries. For these reasons, we simply have to hold the Government to account. It did not play the game fairly. It pretended it was opposed to the deal when in reality, and as everyone knows, it worked hand in glove with its friends

itself to an International Court of Justice case that agrees this is genocide. Yet, we are now expected to take part in a game of football, or any sport, as if it is just normal that we remove our obligations and try to unsee what we have been … There is weight to the Taoiseach's office. When he referred to the genocide, it was a brave decision but it does not stop there. In recognition of genocide, we also apply the standard that we will not treat as normal a state we believe is carrying