Mairéad Farrell: “It would have been fairer to abolish the Universal Social Charge (USC) for people earning up to €40,000.”

"While working families up and down the state were unable to afford to fill their tank with fuel, you were wasting their money on business class flights to the tune of $3,000," she added.

We need urgent clarity from the Central Bank if a request for renewal of the Israeli bond prospectus has come to them from Israel and if this renewal has been accepted.

When fuel protesters were on the streets here, demanding that your government intervene just so they could make ends meet, you were in Washington DC spending $760 (€652.16) a night of taxpayers’ money on a luxury, five-star hotel.

Our demand is that the Irish Government sends observers to this court case in which there is an Irish citizen.