Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

Will the Taoiseach respond to the calls from Ukrainian trade unions and socialist organisations to cancel Ukraine's debt? This is odious debt. It is a result of the total oligarchisation of Ukrainian society, the refusal to go after the wealthy and horrendous conditions imposed by the IMF. The IMF repayments this year alone are the equivalent of 16.5 million average pension payments in Ukraine. That is 12% of the total state expenditure. The debt needs to be cancelled. That is a concrete measure that can be taken now.

Second, did the Taoiseach raise with President Zelenskyy the recent decision to suspend 11 political parties, which between them got almost 20% of the vote at the most recent election? These are not parties we would agree with. They include the main opposition party, the right-wing Platform for Life, which won 44 seats in the Ukrainian Parliament. However, it is a worrying restriction on democratic rights and it will undermine the struggle against the Russian invasion if the Ukrainian Government is telling people the parties they voted for are beyond the pale.

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