I want to disassociate myself from the remarks by some from Sinn Féin and other parties here on Venezuela. The Maduro and Chavez regimes were absolutely appalling. I know many people from Venezuela, many of whom who live here and many who are personal friends of mine living in Spain, who have gone through horrible times in their lives. Their families are still there and I have never heard the like of the things that have happened, the crimes against humanity and the living in fear day in, day out that occurred in Venezuela. People talk about Trump being after the oil but the oil was being sold to China, so I want to disassociate myself from people who associate themselves with support for China, Russia and Iran. When it comes to Iran, we talk about people invading and I heard Deputy Boyd Barrett talking about it but this is not anything strange-----
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Is it my turn or is it Foxes Before Babies?
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Is it my turn or is it Foxes Before Babies?
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I hope I will be given the time back.
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Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I hear these comments about this being unusual and this being strange but we can look at record of this House from when Panama was invaded in 1989 and Noriega was removed. It was a very different story in this House, so we see precedent. I congratulate President Trump for what he is doing and send him my support because there are a lot of people who, because they do not like the individual, will jest and pick out and attack everything but we have to question who is paying other people in this House given what they are saying and where their support is coming from and what is behind it. I move to the Mercosur deal, which is one of the most important things here. We talk about atrocities that are happening around the world but the European Union is committing an atrocity here. It is bringing in beef from a country we cannot trace it in. The Minister of State knows as well as I do we produce the best beef in the world in this country with 100% traceability. Why would we want to move away from that? Why would we want to have carcinogenic beef coming into this or other European countries at any time? That is poisoning our own citizens.
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You are well able to represent yourself.
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Who is paying you?
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Who is paying you?
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Who else is paying you?
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I noticed yesterday an announcement by the Irish Government of additional funds being made available to the people of Palestine. There was an announcement before Christmas of €125 million made available to Ukraine. That is a total spend of €269 million. Can I get a clear run of that? How is it policed? When that money goes out of the State, how do we track where and how it goes and what groups are allocated those funds? How do we track to make sure it does not fall into the wrong hands? As the Minister of State will be aware, €269 million is approximately 678 €370,000 houses.
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It is about safety as well, Minister.
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What about the contaminated beef that came in?
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What about the ten tonnes of cocaine that came into Spain from Brazil, disguised as beef?
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Then why is it not complying? Why did it not comply previously? We have examples from December.
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I have great respect for the Chair but I do not like the answers I am getting. We are being misled in this House.
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But it is not coming in like that and you know that.
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You are sacrificing the Irish farmer.
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When the multinationals go, what happens then?
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You failed the fishermen and now you are failing the farmers. That is what you have done.
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I had no idea.
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He did not say it when he was here.
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