Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to address Senator Hopkins's concerns regarding the National Rehabilitation Hospital. One has to ask the question. Who is in charge of asylum? It is her party's Minister for Health that is closing hospital beds. It is bizarre that she is raising an issue when it is her party's Minister who is doing the damage. It is equally bizarre at a time when there is an unprecedented crisis in health, housing and justice that Fianna Fáil continues to insist on supporting this wretched Government which has lost all credibility at this point.

I want to raise the issue of Israel and to quote from a letter I received from the Mission of the State of Palestine. It states that in the month of January 2017 the Israeli Government approved the construction of 566 new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem. It also states that the Israeli Government then approved the building of another 5,500 units throughout the Occupied West Bank.