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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.

2024-03-06 · Dail · 24 speakers · 5,450 words Questions
Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation

The Union of Students in Ireland, USI, just held a briefing on the student accommodation crisis, with a particular emphasis on digs accommodation. It pointed out that purpose-built student accommodation is need…

2024-03-06 · Dail · 3 speakers · 826 words
Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Sex for Rent) Bill 2024: First Stage

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make it an offence for a landlord to seek sex in lieu of rent or to advertise to seek sex in lieu of rent and for that purpose to amend the R…

2024-03-06 · Seanad · 10 speakers · 7,957 words
Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis

Tá obair mhaith freisin ar siúl ag na sé cheanneagraíocht Gaeilge: Conradh na Gaeilge, Oireachtas na Gaeilge; Gael Linn; Cumann na bhFiann; Glór na nGael agus Gaeloideachas. Mar Aire Stáit don Ghaeilge agus don…

2024-03-06 · Seanad · 14 speakers · 10,894 words
International Women's Day: Statements

There were Muslim women and Black women present but there was not one mention of diversity in the context of women in politics. It should include women from the Traveller community, Black women, Muslim women an…

2024-03-06 · Dail · 18 speakers · 13,333 words
Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis

Is iad príomhspriocanna an Achta neartaithe seo ná: go mbeidh 20% d’earcaigh chuig an earnáil phoiblí inniúil i nGaeilge faoi dheireadh 2030; go gcuirfear na seirbhísí poiblí uile sa Ghaeltacht agus don Ghaelta…

2024-03-06 · Seanad · 16 speakers · 15,404 words 2 votes
Private Rental Sector: Motion

They know that, under the Housing for All plan and the Affordable Housing Act, we have introduced a new tenure-type of cost rental that has rents of at least 25% below market rent.…

2024-03-06 · Dail · 13 speakers · 5,619 words
Rare Diseases: Statements

Rare diseases, as we know, are anything but rare. As the Minister mentioned in his own speech, it is a misnomer to call them “rare diseases”, because they are in fact not that rare, with one in 17 people in the…

2024-03-06 · Dail · 6 speakers · 3,584 words
Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages

If the referendum is not passed, our inventors and innovators will have to use the unified patent courts of other member states if they want to protect their property under the new unitary patent system.…

2024-03-06 · Dail · 2 speakers · 666 words
Statement for Information of Voters in relation to the Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Motion

Tairgim: GO nDÉANFAR an ráiteas atá leagtha amach sa Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Rún seo a fhorordú mar eolas do vótálaithe, de bhun alt 23 d'Acht an Reifrinn, 1994 (Uimh. 12 de 1994), i ndáil leis an togra chu…

2024-03-06 · Dail · 2 speakers · 1,917 words
European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad

These amendments provide for amendment to section 9, which amends section 15(5)(b) of the 2003 Act, and for amendment to section 10, which amends section 16(5)(b) of the 2003 Act. Amendment No. 39 inserts a new…

2024-03-06 · Dail · 7 speakers · 10,490 words 3 votes
Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages

The document also cites the Salzburg principles I mentioned, which came from the Bologna process, and the European Charter for Researchers and the code of conduct for the recruitment for researchers, which clea…

2024-03-06 · Dail · 6 speakers · 3,239 words
Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage

I move amendment No. 26: In page 22, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(f) specify the proposed allocation of total resources (both financial and persons) of the Agency between particular academi…

2024-03-06 · Dail · 5 speakers · 3,825 words
Road Traffic Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages

Where a garda makes a requirement under section 9 or 10 for a person to supply a specimen for testing, it is an offence for a person to refuse or fail to provide the specimen.…

2024-03-05 · Dail · 10 speakers · 6,052 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

John's Hospital, Ennis Hospital, Nenagh Hospital and community services too. The Bail Act of 1997, which followed the 1996 referendum, enables courts to refuse bail for a person charged with a serious offence t…

2024-03-05 · Dail · 28 speakers · 7,468 words 1 vote
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Thursday's business shall be Statements on Nature Restoration Law (not to exceed 3 hrs 32 mins) . Thursday evening business shall be the Motion re Report entitled "Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism”…

2024-03-05 · Seanad · 1 speaker · 483 words
Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad

I have received notice from the following Senators that they propose to raise the following matters: Senator Malcolm Byrne - The need for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make a statem…

2024-03-05 · Seanad · 4 matters · 6 speakers · 6,862 words Commencement matters
Commencement Matters
  • Electoral Process — Malcolm Byrne FF
  • Development Contributions — John Cummins FG
  • Energy Policy — Alice-Mary Higgins IND
  • Regeneration Projects — Róisín Garvey GP
2024-03-05 · Dail · 3 speakers · 791 words
Law Reform (Contracts) Bill 2024: First Stage

My Bill deals with two things, namely, privity of contract and frustration of contract. One is privity of contract, and the other is frustration of contract. Privity of contract is about who can benefit from th…

2024-03-05 · Dail · 3 speakers · 865 words
Prohibition of Fossil Fuel Advertising Bill 2024: First Stage

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to ban advertising of fossil fuels and fossil fuelled vehicles, including commercial sponsorship, by corporate entities and to establish a Fossi…

2024-03-05 · Seanad · 14 speakers · 7,600 words
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Senator O'Loughlin also raised the issue of the SET allocation and the loss of hours in schools, as did Senator Malcolm Byrne. Senator Keogan raised the issue of children in care, as she has done on many occasi…

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