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Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: The local authority is responsible for the rates.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Businesses are struggling in Kilcummin and all around the place to pay the massive rates that is being demanded of them. Before the new rates regime, traders were able to pay in two payments per year. That has gone down to one payment. They must come up with all the money at the one time. There are all these things. I refer to the cost of electricity. I will remind the Government of...

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to make a brief point of order.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Of course.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to clarify my remarks. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae referred to people as “simple”. He used the word “simple”. That is a very unkind and a gratuitously offensive term. He should reflect on his use of that. That is what I was referring to. It is a very unkind term.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We never interrupted Deputy O’Reilly when she was talking.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Deputy is literally interrupting me now. It is not appropriate language to use in this House. It is deeply offensive and very unkind terminology to use. It is not appropriate to apply it to anyone in this House or indeed outside of this House. I would be grateful if Deputy Michael Healy-Rae reflects on his use of that terminology.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Can I clarify my words?

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Of course.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Deputy used the word.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will just clarify. What is under the Deputy’s nose at the moment is that she is anti-business. She is anti-people who want to create employment.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Does the Deputy know where that word comes from?

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Sinn Féin supports the Government in a lot of things, like the carbon tax. The Deputy supported it. They are wishy-washy. They get up in the morning and lick their fingers to see which way the wind is blowing.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy, please.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Deputy has been caught-----

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Follow the wind.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: He is trying to deflect.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: That is what is wrong with Sinn Féin at the moment.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: The Deputy knows where that word comes from. He should be better than that but he is not.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Can we restore a bit of order, please?