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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.
The Bill proposes to cap mortgage interest rates on private dwelling home mortgages and to give the Central Bank the power to issue a direction to all mortgage lenders setting out the maximum APR chargeable on …
From 2011 to 2018, and again from 2020 to 2023, the hospitality and tourism sector enjoyed a reduced VAT rate of 9%. I fully support reviewing the VAT rate for the hospitality and tourism sector because Ireland…
Senator Seery Kearney also spoke about meeting the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, to make progress on school places and support services. Senator Murphy formally seconded Senator Catherine Ardagh's proposa…
Although the Minister for Health approved new measures to provide expanded dental care services for medical card holders under the dental treatment scheme in April 2022, the Irish Dental Association has stated …
The whole basis for the community partnerships is that it is not just focused on gardaí when it comes to safety, but the people in the community who know the community and understand the needs of the community …
This is reflected in the new migration and asylum pact. There has been much discussion of what this pact does and does not mean for Ireland, but first we must look at the much broader context in terms of modern…
The Bill therefore extends the levy-raising powers of Coimisiún na Meán to include those providers in scope of the digital services regulation and the TCOR, and enables the CCPC to levy providers under its comp…
Section 4 amends section 58A to define new terms introduced in this Bill, including a definition of “childminding service”, and also amends the definition of “early years service” to include a childminding serv…
The EU migration and asylum pact will shape European migration policy for the next decade. I believe that by opting into the EU migration and asylum pact, we will do just that. Under the asylum migration pact, …
It is a support group for cancer patients in Cavan town that is currently fundraising for a new drop-in centre where people will have the support of peers with cancer, people who have recovered from cancer, fam…
I want to know who the other Members who have indicated they want to speak are, because we are supposed to have a vote on this tonight. The Chief Whip has come in to say that the Government is going to give us …
This comes into my amendment No. 4, which asks that there would be a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas looking at the introduction of a universal pension and that would include detailed research and mo…
Yet what the Government wants us to do is to opt in to the migration pact when we evidently and demonstrably have no plan such that, as Deputy Harkin has rightly pointed out, we want to legislate after the fact…
Since pre-legislative scrutiny took place, Sinn Féin has highlighted a number of red lines, namely the introduction of seasonal employment permits and the failure to exclude employers with convictions for abusi…
I move amendment No. 2: In page 12, to delete line 16 and substitute the following: “(a) in subsection (1), by the substitution of “such required particulars of the death concerned as may be specified by an tAr…
This amendment clarifies that where the Charities Regulator removes a charity from the register where the charity is no longer entitled to hold the CHY number, the regulator will not be required to serve a remo…
For example, we saw the establishment earlier this year by the Minister, Deputy McEntee, of Cuan, our statutory domestic, sexual and gender-based violence agency. We will not rest, I know the Deputy will not re…
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