I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this important motion on the cost-of-living crisis. As well as the issue of the action the Government needs to take to address the spiralling cost of living, and particularly the cost of energy that has hit hard, I would just like to underline a point about the failure of the Taoiseach to speak up yesterday on the economic impact of Trump's war on people here. Even if he is not willing to condemn the death and destruction being rained down on the people of Iran and Lebanon as we speak and the ongoing genocide being committed by Trump's partners in war, Israel, on the Palestinian people, if he is willing to hand over a bowl of shamrock and stay mute about those things, could he not say something even on the much more parochial basis that Trump's war is costing every single person in this country now? There is the cost of energy, petrol and home heating oil. This means every single person in this country and in the world is now paying a price for what Trump is doing. Is that not a good enough reason to condemn him and for the Government to do everything in its power to stop this madness, as well as the immorality of the killing of people in an illegal war? It seems to me that it is. I just wanted to say that because we are all paying for Trump's war now, for his bloodthirst, for narcissism and for his ego. God knows what it is that motivates that psychopath. There is no other word for what he is. He is a psychopath.

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