The Cathaoirleach and the Ceann Comhairle presided over bravery awards last Friday. I am deeply honoured to point out that my niece's husband, Eoin Clancy, was one of the recipients of an award. Among my family, Eoin now holds a similar and equal award to the one my father received in 1942. My father is also commemorated in Blackrock in Salthill for saving human life. My father got a Carnegie Hero Fund Award, while Eoin received his award from the Ceann Comhairle and the Cathaoirleach. We are extremely proud of him.

I spoke yesterday about the issue of drones and security during President Zelenskyy's visit to Ireland. I was horrified to open my computer yesterday evening and find in The Journal that the people who provided security for Zelenskyy's visit to Ireland were the Portuguese, French and PSNI police forces. Is there anybody in the Oireachtas who gives a continental damn about the proud sovereign State we are supposed to be? I am not blaming the Government any more. This is an Oireachtas issue. We are sitting on our hands. These things are happening behind our backs. Why can we not be honest and come forward and talk about the security of the State? Danny McCoy issued a statement this morning. It is on the RTÉ website for anybody who wants to read it. He talks about the risk to our foreign direct investment, FDI, due to our negligence - I am talking about all of us in this House - in the area of security and defence for this country. We will lose the goose that is laying the golden egg. FDI will walk out of this country and we will find ourselves in here procrastinating about how it happened. It happened because we are sitting on our hands and saying nothing. The Opposition is saying nothing. It is the Opposition that holds the Government to account. Why are its members not speaking out? We are watching the decline of defence and security in this country. Wake up. The Portuguese, the French and the PSNI provided security for Zelenskyy's visit. We have a police force, an Army, an Air Corps and a Navy. They are all defunct. Let us wake up and start talking about security.