5. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [35368/25]
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The ongoing genocide in Gaza is obviously a stain on the European community and the US. Is the fear over tariffs going to inhibit our Government from raising serious human rights abuses within the US? I have seen videos - I am sure the Taoiseach has too - of children shackled and chained in an LA detention centre by ICE and being transported, in scenes reminiscent of the Holocaust, before the end of the Second World War. I have also seen alligator Alcatraz, in which hundreds of people are being detained, with no convictions and no charges, in the Everglades, in Florida. Trump has called these people deranged and dangerous. They are being kept in cages in a swampland with pythons and alligators. There are 700 people there, apparently. When a Democrat Congresswoman emerged from there yesterday, she was shaken and completely unable to speak about the horrors she witnessed. We have a duty to speak up about human rights abuses in the US or any other powerful nation and not to be deterred for economic reasons.
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Holding everyone to their time is fine.
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That is fine.
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Is that a lot?
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What is the Taoiseach suggesting?
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16. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach to report on his discussions with the new Canadian Prime Minister. [38778/25]
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Has the Taoiseach raised with the Canadian Prime Minister the ongoing support of Canada for Israel, which is very unfortunate, and Canada's commitment to spend 5% of GDP on arms and to participate in ReArm Europe? Points have been made by a previous TD about democratic values that we share. TDs who went and dined with the US ambassador while it is funding a genocide are lecturing the rest of us about democratic values but I have been on more marches for Woman, Life, Freedom in Iran, something that that Deputy could never go on because he struck a woman once and paid no price, so I would stay very quiet. I have also been on protests outside the embassy of the USSR, which is something that Deputy has never done. We hear a lot of lectures from people about democratic values. They never raise the values of the US, Canada and other nations.
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Can the Taoiseach just answer the questions he was asked?
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21. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [33615/25]
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It is absolutely pathetic that the only thing the Government can offer young people to reduce the price of a home is to reduce its size. Going from 37 sq. m to 32 sq. m means these units will be smaller than a mobile home. Eight of them, apparently, would fit on a playing pitch. The estimated cost reduction this will bring about is between €28,000 and €40,000. It still will not make apartments affordable for any workers, including teachers, nurses or anyone else. It will not stop the exodus. In addition, the Government is loosening the regulations for builders in regard to light and the provision of windows. Yet again, it is a developer-led system. Fingal County Council has announced it has stopped the tenant in situ scheme. The only possible means by which a TD can save any person from homelessness has now been removed. There is nothing else. What else can we do? If someone comes to any of us with a termination notice, having gone to the Residential Tenancies Board and Threshold, what else can we offer them? The Government has taken away the budget for the scheme. In Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council, in practically the whole of Dublin and most of the country, this has gone as an option. What is the Government offering people who have termination and evictions notice pending?
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Why were the schemes stopped?
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