I support the amendments by Senators McDowell, Ruane and Black. It not an onerous task that we are asking the Minister to accept in these amendments. I will put it very simply. It is giving gardaí the pen. They have the ink in the pen to use when they are recording this data. It is important that this data is collected. We want a fair and just society for everybody living in this country, including people of different colour, race, ethnicity and nationality. Sometimes, they can be targeted because of that. It is im…

For clarity, will the Minister of State outline what data at this moment in time is actually collected on the PULSE system when a garda stops and searches a person? On a stop and search, what data is currently collected on the PULSE system by An Garda Síochána at this moment in time?

Is colour at this moment in time on the PULSE system?

I believe it is. Can the Minister of State please check that? Ethnicity is at this moment in time on the PULSE system. Some gardaí do fill it in and others do not, but it is actually on the PULSE system.

Can the Minister of State please check with her officials there if ethnicity or colour is currently on the PULSE system at this moment in time.

Yes, nationality.

I rise to address the harrowing news we have received from Belfast today, where a local man is in a critical condition after surviving what appears to be an attempted beheading by a man believed to be a Sudanese national, confirmed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. I express my praise to those community members who bravely intervened to save his life at great risk to their own. I hope the House will join me in offering our prayers for his safety and survival. The investigation is ongoing and the motives ar…

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

I want to carefully address some of the public and media reactions following the tragic death of Yves Sakila because it raises serious concerns about consistency and fairness in how we discuss these issues. In recent days, footage emerged of African religious rituals being conducted outside Arnotts in response to Sakila's death, where the officiate tells the camera he is cursing death on all who enter the premises. That conduct has not been treated with the seriousness it warrants. In fact, it has been dismissed or…

Hear, hear.

I thank the MEPs for coming before us. I want to direct my remarks in particular to those representatives here who are members of the Government parties and those who sit with the EPP and Renew groups because those groups form a central part of the governing coalition at EU level. Last week in this Chamber we debated the Canada trade deal, known as CETA, and its worrying provisions, especially the inclusion of investor-state dispute mechanisms that allow cases between foreign firms and the Irish Government be arbit…

Let the man speak.

It is wonderful today that Mr. Mullooly is in the hot seat because it is normally me.

No way.

Hear, hear.

I wish to speak to the recent acceptance of the credentials of the Iranian ambassador to Ireland, a decision that raised serious and deeply troubling questions. I believe we need to be clear about two things. First, this was not a ceremonial inevitability. Second, this was not the President's decision. While the President formally receives the letter of credence, the decision to allow that ceremony to proceed rests squarely with the Government, specifically the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade acting under t…

This House must not allow any blurring of responsibility, something I feel the media latched onto as the Government hid behind the President's more outspoken views. The Executive made this decision, not the President. We must ask who made this call, and why now? This decision comes against the backdrop of ongoing repression in Iran, a regime accused of killing thousands of protesters and detaining tens of thousands more with credible reports of torture, rape and systemic brutality used to silence dissent. Whatever …

Hear, hear.