Peadar Tóibín: “Your silence is damaging the people's confidence in your ability to manage immigration on an all Ireland basis.”

He called for an additional €2.5bn to be spent on defence.

In terms of capital infrastructure spends last year there was about €1.6bn of overspend.

A rudimentary understanding of the Irish language would be nice, he added.

The drug must be reimbursed now for sufferers in desperate need.