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Ceann Comhairle, With just nine weeks to go to polling day in the UK’s referendum on its EU membership, I welcome this opportunity to debate this vital strategic interest for Ireland...

A Cheann Comhairle, I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak to the House today on this topic which is of major strategic importance to us in the context of our national, bilateral and international interests...

In recent years, with the EU institutions appearing to be led more by head than heart, many people have begun to question the wisdom of the project....

Friends, colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen – members of the board of the National Concert Hall...

Thank you to everyone for coming. I felt it was important that while we are waiting the conclusion of Government negotiations not to merely wait for these talks to go on, but to see on what matters some form of political understanding may emerge when...

Colleagues, I am delighted to be here to launch Organ Donor Awareness Week 2016. The Awareness Week promotes the life-saving role of organ donation, and I'm very glad to be supporting it.`..

Ladies and gentlemen – Irishmen and Irishwomen – friends, relatives, and guests. We are gathered here today on one of the key sites-of-battle of the 1916 Rising, as we pay tribute to the courage, idealism, and sacrifice of the men and women who one hundred years ago...

I am delighted to be here this morning with Minister Heather Humphreys to launch this significant exhibition – ‘The GPO: Witness History’, a key element of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme...

The access to affordable, safe and secure housing is an issue that has shaped Irish politics from even before our State was founded...

Assistant Secretary General Ciaran Murphy, Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I’m delighted to be in the town of Dundalk....