Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to follow up on migration on the basis that we are all aware of the huge openings there are and the lack of positions we have right across the health service, whether we are talking about those who work in nursing homes, those who work in home care, our speech and language therapists, SLTs, or our occupational therapists, OTs, and we know the issue we have in the building sector. Across Europe, but particularly here, given the crises we have, we need to look in a proper, holistic way at our system in respect of visa permits and whatever facilitates those people we need to keep our system going.

I assume the Taoiseach and the Prime Minister of Luxembourg dealt the energy price crisis across the board. We really need to make sure we have further movement not only at a domestic level but also at a European level. We know that that is where climate change touches the issues of security and so on.

I wish to follow up on what Deputy Haughey said. Any conversation with anybody as to where the Irish people are as regards security and defence will show that we still are utterly committed to non-alignment and military neutrality, which have served us very well.

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