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9,028 debates and question sessions in the Dáil and Seanad, 2020-01-21 to 2026-10-01. Newest first. A question session is listed once, with each question, who asked it and their party on the day. Use the search box above to look inside them.

2024-10-23 · Dail · 4 issues · 7 speakers · 7,605 words Topical issues
Topical Issue Debate
  • Medicinal Products — Neasa Hourigan GP
  • An Garda Síochána — Alan Kelly LAB
  • Wastewater Treatment — Holly Cairns SD
  • Wastewater Treatment — Catherine Connolly IND
2024-10-23 · Seanad · 3 matters · 4 speakers · 4,774 words Commencement matters
Commencement Matters
  • Direct Provision System — Eileen Flynn IND
  • Rail Network — Malcolm Byrne FF
  • Tourism Industry — Róisín Garvey GP
2024-10-23 · Seanad · 15 speakers · 8,775 words
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Senator Wall spoke about teachers and we had this conversation yesterday so the Senator knows my position on it. Senator Flynn----- The Leader came back to me about the Bill and she went through all of the othe…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 2 speakers · 3,881 words
Public Health Service Staffing: Motion [Private Members]

Doctors, nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, healthcare assistants, radiographers, medical lab assistants, scientists, porters - the entire gamut of healthcare workers - need support from the Government and fro…

2024-10-23 · Seanad · 9 speakers · 6,466 words
Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of Hiroshima

You are here as the mayor of Hiroshima, but also as the president of the Mayors for Peace organisation. Takeshi Araki, the then mayor of Hiroshima, called upon the United Nations for solidarity and for peace at…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 23 speakers · 16,616 words
Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]

He sent communications to the health service that he was putting in place a recruitment embargo with very limited exceptions relating to final-year nurses and hospital consultants, but across a whole range of o…

2024-10-23 · Seanad · 5 speakers · 1,942 words
Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion

Both industries received financial support through the horse and greyhound racing fund under section 12 of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Act 2001. RCÉ continues to operate an ever-expanding greyhound care fund…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 13 speakers · 7,062 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

The story gets worse because, while the Government prevents the recruitment of permanent staff into the health service, its spending on agency staff has gone through the roof.…

2024-10-23 · Seanad · 4 speakers · 726 words
Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages

The fact that 35% to 40% of appeals submitted to the appeals office each year are overturned fully or partially in favour of the farmer speaks to that.…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 22 speakers · 5,167 words Questions
Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation

Does the Taoiseach accept that Garda numbers are not increasing in County Meath and that our position as the county with the lowest number of gardaí per head of population has only worsened under Fine Gael and …

2024-10-23 · Seanad · 3 speakers · 2,100 words
Statute Law Revision Bill 2024: Second Stage

The statute law revision programme is responsible for six distinct but complementary Statute Law Revision Acts between 2005 and 2015, which have successfully repealed all obsolete primary legislation enacted pr…

2024-10-23 · Seanad · 7 speakers · 9,485 words 1 vote
Amendment to Seanad Standing Orders: Motion

Where no candidate is validly nominated, immediately after the Clerk has read the names of the Senators nominated and of the Senators elected, a motion proposing a member for Cathaoirleach may be made by any me…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 13 questions · 11 speakers · 7,151 words Questions
Questions · to the Taoiseach
  • Q1 Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements — Paul Murphy PBP
  • Q2+ Climate Action Plan — Ruairí Ó Murchú SF
  • Q7+ Cabinet Committees — Peadar Tóibín AON
2024-10-23 · Dail · 13 speakers · 11,708 words
Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage

There will always be private health insurance and private healthcare but there should be less of it, less profit in healthcare and more opportunities for people to access public healthcare in a timely fashion.…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 5 speakers · 4,180 words
Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Instruction to Committee

A new section 67F is proposed to be included in the Health Act 1970 to provide for free menopause medicines and products to women who have been prescribed menopause medicines by their healthcare provider to all…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 7 speakers · 5,926 words
Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages

Amendment No. 3 provides that the new section being introduced - section 67F of the Health Act 1970, which gives effect to the provision of free hormone replacement therapy products related to menopause - is in…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 4 speakers · 9,369 words
Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages

I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, to delete lines 17 to 20 and substitute the following: “(10) An employee to whom subsection (1) of section 14B and subsection (1) apply shall not be entitled to postpone mater…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 6 speakers · 5,114 words
Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad

The Land Development Agency Act originally provided for up to €2.5 billion in capital for the LDA. The LDA does not have access to over €6 billion.…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 11 speakers · 13,962 words 1 vote
Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad

With regard to the definitions of "hate" and "hatred", we moved a number of amendments on the definition of "hatred" as the Bill was going through various Stages. The Socialist Party is in favour of hate speech…

2024-10-23 · Dail · 1 speaker · 869 words
Estimates for Public Services 2024

That a supplementary sum not exceeding €37,880,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2024, for the salaries and expenses of…

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