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activities, including sports and fitness through Clongorey FC and local walking and running groups, social and educational activities such as bingo, card games, a history group, book club and many other areas including youth development and introducing children to digital skills and, most importantly, introducing them to community … central to the quality of life in those rural communities. There is also an urgent need to look at official bus stops and bus shelters throughout rural communities. These must be addressed. It is simply not good enough for people to be standing on the side

used the number of words we use here in the Dáil, I am sure we could build quite an amount of housing. To stop all the talk, the Government commissioned a Housing Commission report. It reported last May, over a year ago, and had 83 recommendations. What jumped … what it should be, involving a short term arrangement, and build local authority housing. However, we cannot do that because of the blame game, with the local authority saying it does not have enough money and the Department saying it has loads of money. Despite what is said

devices themselves. The Bill will ban the sale of devices resembling or functioning as other products such as toys or games. This is to ensure that the Irish market does not see the evolution of these products into multi-use devices with features that would specifically attract young … legislation and respond quickly if needed. This legislation is also proposed at the same time as significant investment in free, safe and effective stop-smoking support. Funding for the HSE quit programme has almost doubled since 2021, to over €20 million in 2025. This includes the roll

this from the start. I went to Limerick last October to launch it during Mental Health Week. We often use the word "game-changer" in the Dáil but this is one of the ones that has really made a significant difference. I visited Limerick a couple of weeks … making of an application, as the second reference is not required. Amendment No. 45 is a technical amendment to insert a full stop at the end of the sentence as the following sentence is being deleted in amendment No. 46. Amendment No. 46 deletes subsection

restoration dates has added to their sense of frustration. Public representatives in some parts of the country have called on the ESB to stop giving restoration dates that it cannot meet. When they work it is very useful information, but when people have been given a restoration date … face of climate change. The frequency of storms will increase, so it is time for the Government to seriously up its game

because, largely, that horse has bolted. They have grown up and live in a very different world where privacy is a different ball game for them completely. However, the online worlds has become so toxic and harmful. This is true of the Internet more broadly, as I have … being offered at European or domestic level. I urge the Government to withdraw its amendment. I also once again ask this Government to stop supporting the digital omnibus packages making their way through the European Union because they will gut the AI Act of any meaningful impact

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