Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

Ba mhaith liom an Dáil a chur ar athló faoi réir Buan Órdú 32 chun déileáil leis an ghné rí-thábhactach seo gur cóir a phlé sa Dáil: the urgent need for the Government to use the summer months to reflect on the grave damage it has done to the country and its people, as demonstrated by the growing numbers unemployed, the mortgage arrears crisis, the hugely disproportionate cuts to the community and voluntary sector, on which more and more people now depend, the slashing cuts and restrictions imposed on some of our most basic social welfare schemes, its steadfast refusal to tax the rich, and its lack of acknowledgement that it no longer has a mandate from the people to run the country, a fact that underpins its refusal to hold three by-elections which it now knows it could never win.

See this speech in context