I want to raise, as we are going into year five of conflict in Ukraine, the courage and fortitude of the Ukrainian people. Since the invasion began, I have written about 40 in-depth analysis pieces for The Journal and other newspapers, giving very forensic accounts of how the Ukrainians have managed to stop Putin's special military operation. From Kharkiv to Kramatorsk to Sloviansk to Zaporizhzhia to Kyiv to Odesa to Lviv, what the Ukrainians have achieved has been extraordinary. It has benefited all of us here and the values we hold and freedoms we enjoy. I acknowledge this sacrifice because Moscow's and Putin's hold on Russia is held on the balance of fear. We know this because of Prigozhin's rush to Moscow not so long ago, which almost succeeded. Putin's leadership is quite brittle. It is based on fear, intimidation and brute force. On the Ukrainian side, their courage is held together not by the absence of fear but by love of their freedoms and their desire to remain free and to survive. To be honest, how the same group of people who have been in combat for four years can continue is extraordinary. To shorten the war and bring it to a conclusion, there should be no appeasement of Vladimir Putin. He is a war criminal. If the Trump Administration thinks it can get a deal by appeasing him, they are wrong. It will prolong the war. We need to end this war and have a just and final peace. We have to end the killing.

Any right-thinking person would have to stand with Ukraine at this hour of great urgency and I express my solidarity.

I want to hark back to something a couple of colleagues mentioned earlier, which is the issue of road safety. I am very definite in the opinion that what we need most in this country in relation to road safety, as I said during the debate last week, is a dramatic change in driver behaviour. The attitude that pervades on Irish roads seems to be "it does not apply to me".

From speed limits to using mobile phones to allowing children to drive unaccompanied as learner drivers, all these things are seen as, "It does not apply to me. What harm would it do the odd time." That really comes back to the whole business of enforcement. As I mentioned last week, there should be average speed cameras, an increase in the strict application of penalty points, and an increase in the minimum number points from three to six. As I said on that occasion, over a third of those who get penalty points reoffend. That tells its own tale, which is that the penalty points regime is not strict enough. It should be the case that if you get six points, and then another six points, at that stage you are out. If these things were enforced, if we financed An Garda Síochána to increase the number of unmarked cars and average speed cameras, and if the courts imposed penalty points at a greater and stricter level, we would succeed in moderating the generally atrocious driver behaviour we all see. Everybody in this House and abroad sees that road behaviour in Ireland is at a very poor level.