You are so out of touch.
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Their mums and dads were on the streets last week.
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I would sit down if I were you.
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You need to get out of the bubble.
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Some of your backbenchers are cringing.
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Níl an Rialtas seo ag éisteacht le gnáthmhuintir na tíre. Níl sé sásta an gníomh a dhéanamh le cáin a ghearradh ar bhreosla sa dóigh is go mbeadh sé ar phraghas réasúnta. I gceantar tuaithe na hÉireann fud fad na tíre, tá oibrithe, teaghlaigh, feirmeoirí agus comhlachtaí beaga faoi bhrú ollmhór, gan rogha ar bith acu ach praghsanna arda a íoc. Nuair a labhair daoine amach agus nuair a chuaigh siad chun na sráide, chuir an Rialtas seo a gcás ar leataobh agus bhagair sé orthu in áit éisteacht leo. Fiú anois, tá na bearta atá á dtabhairt chun tosaigh ag an Rialtas i bhfad rólag. Is Rialtas é seo a bhfuil teipthe air, agus níl muinín ghnáthdhaoine na tíre seo ann. Caithfidh sé imeacht. A government that does not listen does not have the confidence of ordinary people and, by God, this is a Government that does not listen. I lost count, but maybe the Ceann Comhairle might inform us, of how many pats on the back the Tánaiste gave himself earlier? I tell you that I have never heard such an out-of-touch speech in this Dáil. This is a Government that still refuses to make fuel prices affordable at the pumps. If the Tánaiste were listening he would know that the cost-of-living crisis is crushing ordinary people. Fuel prices have surged. Still more than half of what people pay at the pumps is taken away in taxes. Week after the week prices rose and pressure mounted. What did Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Independents do? They did nothing of substance. There was no urgency, no real intervention and no leadership. They stood back while people were being pushed to the brink. Their first response was an insult and any benefit was wiped out almost immediately. There was no action on home heating oil and no meaningful support for households or rural communities. It did not come close to addressing the problem. Then what happened? They walked away and refused to recall the Dáil, which did not sit for 20 days. All the while, households faced soaring bills while workers struggled to get to work. Farmers and contractors face rising prices and input costs with no support from Government. We have seen businesses being pushed closer and closer to the edge. It was a failure and dereliction of duty, leaving people with no option but to rise up and take to the streets. Instead of listening, what did Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Independents do? They dismissed them. They talked down to them. They refused to meet them. They threatened them. They threatened the Army on their own people. These are families struggling to heat their homes for God's sake and workers struggling to get to work. Farmers and rural communities are trying to keep going and this Government's instinct was not to help them but it was to threaten them.
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That is not leadership; that is arrogance. That is a Government that is out of touch. What are people being asked to have confidence in? A package that still does not make fuel affordable. A 10-cent cut in excise gone with the next price increase. The Government outright refuses to cut carbon taxes, there is no removal of excise on home heating oil at all, nothing that fundamentally changes things for ordinary households or rural communities, no real relief for workers, farmers or families and no support at all for disabled people. This is not a solution; it is a holding operation designed to contain the anger, not solve the problem. Do you know something? People see right through it. Let me say what would actually build confidence. Cut excise on diesel to a level that makes it affordable and hold it there. Match that reduction with petrol. Remove carbon tax from home heating oil and do the same on green diesel to support our farmers and contractors-----
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-----and deliver real supports to households as well as sectors.
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Include in that the energy credits to make sure that people are supported with the sky-high electricity costs. That is what real intervention looks like, folks. That is what leadership looks like.
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I say to the so-called Independents over there and to the backbenchers opposite in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael that they know damn well what is happening in their communities. They are hearing it every single day. People are angry and people are struggling and people are being pushed to the limit here. Sinn Féin has brought their voice into this Chamber and now all the Independents and backbenchers over there have a choice to either stand with Micheál Martin and Simon Harris or stand with the ordinary Irish people. Confidence is not something you demand; it is something you earn-----
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-----and this Government has not earned it. It has ignored the warnings, it has allowed the crisis to escalate, it has responded too late and even now it refuses to act decisively. I was elected by ordinary people, I speak out for ordinary people-----
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-----and today I stand with ordinary people-----
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----- in voting no confidence in this Government. It is time for it to go.
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Hear, hear.
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Well done.
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No apologies for threatening the Army, Jim? No apologies, no? Do you stand by it?
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You were threatening the public with them. Do not threaten the Irish people with them. Many of the families were not happy.
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Ah, Jesus Christ almighty.
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Come on.
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So says the corrupt politician in the corner.
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We will take up the violin for you, will we?
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Cynical?
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The last time the Deputy was on those benches, he was taking backhanders.
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Ah, give over.
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Seriously.
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Every one of them voted to censure you because of the corruption.
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Cop yourself on.
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Some families are waiting 12 years for help for their disabled children. They are waiting 12 years, not 12 hours.
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That is not true. On a point of order-----
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On a point of order, we tabled an amendment and you voted against it. That is why the people took to the street. Just get your facts correct.
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Point of order. You are telling fibs here.
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It is not a fact. Sorry, you cannot make up your own facts.
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A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, we put forward the proposal to reduce it with the first vote that day. They voted against it. We would not accept their half measures and that is why people rolled up. That is why people took to the streets.
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Tell the truth.
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That is nonsense.
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We have an amendment that will actually do the business.
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A late bloomer to democracy? I took your party to the High Court because you denied democracy. Micheál Martin was found guilty in the High Court of trying to stop the people of Ireland having a by-election. Do not lecture me about democracy-----
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