Like others, a Cheann Comhairle, I thank you for resolving the situation that we have had, which has now been going on for seven days. The very democracy of the Irish Republic was in question here and it had to be resolved before we could go forward. We cannot have the situation that was being put before us. That looks like it is going to be resolved going forward and a settlement was made here today, which I appreciate. We will not be supporting the suspension of the House for two weeks. We have a housing crisis, with 15,000 people without homes and young children without a home.

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I know. I am almost finished. We have a health crisis, with people on trolleys. We have a cost-of-living crisis and we want to discuss whether the carbon tax can continue in this country if we are not to further crucify people. We have an agricultural crisis where people are not getting their payments and we have a fisheries crisis, where the quotas of fishermen are being taken from them.

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We need to be here, sitting in the Dáil, next week. On that basis, we will not be supporting the suspension of the Dáil for the next two weeks.

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