Is the Taoiseach interrupting again?

Where I live gives me a unique insight into the failure we have seen over the past decade. The Inishowen Peninsula has seen so many of our people emigrate, forced to go to England and the United States back in the day and more recently to Australia, Canada and the Middle East. That is the story of my peninsula and my county. Just half an hour away is Derry city, an Irish city with Irish citizens who are deeply proud of their part in our country. The Fleadh Cheoil was there a few years ago. I think of all those from…

And you never interrupt?

I can check the record if you want. You do it regularly.

He is accusing people of doing something he is guilty of regularly.

The Taoiseach should respond.

The Chief Whip will have been party to an email from us regarding Committee and Remaining Stages of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill tomorrow evening. Sixty minutes just does not cut it. We are going to need two hours. I am asking that the Government allow two hours for that. Whatever way the Government does that, we need to have at least two hours.

The Minister of State and I have had a number of engagements now in the Dáil and at the committee. I wish him well. That is a big understatement, actually. We have waited a long time for a dedicated Minister of State with responsibility for fisheries. It is vital that he does well for all of our fisheries and coastal communities. I am going to refer to a matter on the Dáil record. We had an exchange on it earlier at the committee. My colleague, Deputy Conor McGuinness, is Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Fisher…

It is a dog's dinner-like.

I am just giving commentary.

The Taoiseach should stop interrupting-----

He is doing his job.

The Taoiseach will know the international activists on board the aid ship Madleen have been kidnapped in international waters and taken to Israel. Some have been deported and others will be deported, but at least they took action. All we hear from the Taoiseach are words. He said in the Dáil the Central Bank is not facilitating the sale of Israeli bonds. Will he correct the record? Will he support the motion coming through the Dáil tomorrow, reverse his position and at last take definable action in support of the P…

Will the Taoiseach correct the record on the Central Bank's role------

The question was not answered.

Okay, fair enough. We will have a vote then.

A deeply disturbing opinion poll was recently published in the Haaretz newspaper of Israel. Some 82% of the Israeli public supports the ethnic cleansing of the 2 million people of Gaza from their homeland. This is an almost entirely refugee community. Furthermore, 65% support the biblical Amalek command that all men, women and children should be killed and cleared from the land. That is where we are at. It is utterly horrific and the world has stood idly by. It is unforgivable. In years to come, we in this Parliame…

There was a figure of 40,000.

As the Chief Whip will be aware, every Thursday at the Business Committee in recent weeks, I have raised the issue of the defective concrete blocks scheme. Last October, the Government confirmed it was going to increase the cap by 10%. Families are tens of thousands of euro short of 100% redress. This cap must be available to everybody undertaking this scheme, not just new entrants. That amendment was promised late last year and we are now here, coming into June, and there is no sign of the amendment. I am urgently…

Not agreed.