The European Conservatives and Reformists party is due to hold what it calls a cultural festival next weekend in Ireland. I would describe it as a hate fest. This group is made up of people like those in Giorgia Meloni's party, which is currently restricting the rights of gay parents to have full rights over their children and is waging war with NGOs that try to rescue people from the Mediterranean. The group includes the Bulgarian wing of a far-right party that is trying to bring a constitutional amendment to ban people who do not have certain academic qualifications from voting. It also includes Viktor Orbán's party, which is notoriously ultranationalist and far right, and the Greek Solution, which advocates shutting down NGOs, describing them as trafficking companies.

We do not control what hotels or pubs these people visit, but they are due to visit this House on 3 November. We will not be here but I would like the Taoiseach to join me in saying these people should not be welcomed. Far-right extremists who shut down the rights of individuals, collectives and migrants should not be welcomed to Leinster House on 3 November.

I think the far right is capable of a lot of hate. Some of them are consumed and motivated by it. I think the same goes for a lot of the far left. Both groups are very much capable of hate. They are often motivated by it and often driven by it.

The Taoiseach has some neck. He is always doing this.

It is a fact Deputy. We have free speech in this country.

It is not a fact. I defend the Taoiseach's right to be a gay man, to get married and have children. These people are shutting down that right.

Deputy, please.

I do not need to detail or document for the Deputy the level of hatred that is directed by the far left towards many people for many different reasons.

Like whom? Detail it. I would like to hear what the Taoiseach is talking about.

Deputy, please. Let the Taoiseach speak.

I will send the Deputy some examples.

The Taoiseach did not answer my question. Does he think they should be welcome in this House?

That is not a matter for me. That is a matter for the Ceann Comhairle.

Should it be a matter for us?

I am moving on to the Regional Group and Deputy Verona Murphy.