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Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "acknowledges the Government's comprehensive response to the significant increases in energy prices for households and businesses due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the significant progress being made in ensuring a just transition to renewable energy; recognises that:...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, for bringing forward the motion. It is an important motion that strikes at the heart of the cost-of-living crisis faced by ordinary people. The cost-of-living crisis could more accurately be described as a rip-off crisis. People in Ireland pay two thirds higher than the EU average for electricity, with a typical Irish household paying nearly...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: In terms of the cost of living, Ireland is the most expensive country in the EU. Electricity costs are at the core of this huge increase. Ireland's costs are 46% above the EU average. Our gas and electricity are the most expensive in the EU at more than double the average. At the same time, energy companies are making massive profits. This affects many ordinary workers and families on a...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is a TD like the rest of us. I like to believe that he is speaking to his constituents like the rest of us. They are facing this impossible burden, especially people who struggle to pay their rents, mortgages and bills every week. The increased cost of electricity and gas is an impossible burden. Our small businesses face exactly the same burden. This did not happen out...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

David Cullinane: The culture of corporate rip-off is alive and well. The Government has allowed itself to become a doormat for companies making eye-watering profits of billions of euro at a time when people are struggling to make ends meet. Inflation has a crippling impact on families on the breadline but the Minister and the Government are not interested in picking a fight with the corporates who are...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Amendment put.

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time tomorrow evening.

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that Ireland has some of the most expensive electricity prices in the European Union (EU), two-thirds higher than the average, with the typical Irish household paying nearly €700 more per year; regrets that: — the Government refused to apply a stronger, more effective windfall tax which tackled profits when they were at their...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank all of those who spoke. Including this week, last week and in the Seanad, there have been more than 12.5 hours of debate and questions on the migration pact, as well as numerous debates in this House prior to that and questions at the Oireachtas committee. I have listened to and been part of all those debates and responded to questions any time I have been asked. When we are...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I join in the tributes expressed across the House on the passing of two Irish legends of broadcasting. The wonderful Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh was the sound of the GAA, the sound of Sunday and for generations of fans he was an exceptionally descriptive broadcaster and was also generous with his time, particularly in promoting the Irish language, his native tongue. I offer my...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: There must be an election looming again as Sinn Féin has done another U-turn. It now states it no longer wants open borders. It now wants to look at things differently. I am working with many nationalities in this country and always have done so. It is harder now to get into the country with paperwork than it is without paperwork in certain cases. I refer to people who come with...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Pearse Doherty: What we are debating today is whether Ireland should opt in fully and wholesale to the EU migration pact. Sinn Féin's position is crystal clear and it is that we should not. It is not in Ireland's interest. Ireland and Europe have seen a significant increase in migration rates for a number of years. In 2019 the number of people applying for international protection in the State was...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Joan Collins: I will not support the pact. It writes a broken system into law. It disregards the humanity of people fleeing war and persecution. It weakens our humanity by treating people who need help with detention and punishment. It reinforces the false idea we have a refugee crisis and not a crisis in how we run our economies, societies and international system. We do not have refugee crisis....

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: I join with colleagues who earlier expressed their condolences on the passing of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh and Tommie Gorman. It is a very sad day for Ireland to see two such wonderful people pass away, people who have made such an enormous contribution to society in so many different ways. I support the EU migration and asylum pact and will vote for it tomorrow. In the...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I welcome this opportunity. I have listened to everybody. I feel like we are chaining ourselves to the asylum and migration pact in the sense of taking an all-or-nothing approach. While there are good elements to it, I have some fears in regard to it. The current system is broken and we have not got it right. We cannot buy a bee in a box because we do not know what will be in the final...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

The following motion was moved by the Taoiseach on Tuesday, 18 June 2024:

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: - (Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire)

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: When the debate on the motion was nearing an end the last day, Deputy Durkan was offering. I call him now.