As Minister of State with responsibility for disability, the Joint Committee on Disability Matters has enabled me to step outside the comfort zone of just the specialist disability services. I am delighted to s…

• Data Centres — Lynn Boylan SF
• Schools Building Projects — Micheál Carrigy FG
• Mother and Baby Homes — Victor Boyhan IND
• Fire Service — Malcolm Byrne FF

• Cannabis for Medicinal Use — Gino Kenny PBP
• Rail Network — Steven Matthews GP
• Childcare Services — Christopher O'Sullivan FF
• Insurance Coverage — Colm Burke FG

I also welcome, on this independence day in the Czech Republic, the chargé d'affaires at the Embassy of the Czech Republic, Mr. On this Czech national day, we wish our friends in the Czech Republic the warmest …

Today’s debate on neutrality provides us with an important opportunity to clarify what Ireland’s policy of military neutrality does, and does not, actually mean. We have consistently shown in this country that …

I ask the Acting Leader, genuinely, if she will use her good offices to ask both the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and also the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heri…

I wish to raise with the Taoiseach the matter of excessive numbers of deer roaming our roads in Kerry. We in Kerry cannot carry on with the increased number of deer. He has advised me that we need to cull signi…

It is important to emphasise that, where spiking is used to facilitate a further offence such as a sexual assault, an assault, which carries a ten-year maximum sentence, or a rape, which carries a maximum sente…

The budget contains a number of things that help on housing, such as extending and increasing the rent credit to help renters, extending help to buy to help people buy their first home and a budget of over €5 b…

As the Bill is currently drafted, it may not capture in entirety the broad nature and use of non-disclosure agreements, NDAs. This research highlighted that NDAs are commonly used in a range of contexts in Irel…

This anaerobic digester takes in 35,000 tonnes of waste material every year - animal slurry, waste product from the local distillery and waste product from the local chicken factory - and converts it into a ren…

It has been 18 months since the people of Northern Ireland voted for their representatives to take up their responsibilities for a new term in the Assembly and Executive; 18 months in which this fundamental dem…

If it is passed, we will have full transparency over developers with regard to what profit levels they have if they are in receipt or are beneficiaries of Government schemes or subsidies.…

THAT the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39 of 1997) be amended in respect of the taxation of leases in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution. 6.…

• Q1+ Mother and Baby Homes — Peadar Tóibín AON
• Q4+ Cabinet Committees — Peadar Tóibín AON
• Q7+ Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements — Mick Barry PBP

The meeting of European Heads of Government at the European Council meeting on Thursday, which the Taoiseach will be attending, is undoubtedly a critical test for our European Union, which bills itself as a voi…

The proposal seeks to amend the existing victims' rights directive, a directive we have opted into and have transposed with the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017. Members will also note that improvin…

In this State, the directive was transposed by the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act. In this legislation, the Commission identified a number of shortcomings, particularly with regard to victims not recei…

Following the inaugural energy poverty stakeholder engagement forum, a revised energy poverty action plan that will be brought to the Government in quarter 1 of 2024 will set out further measures to support hou…

This amendment is required to enable the distribution system operator, DSO, to notify each supplier of meter point reference numbers, MPRNs, that has low-usage electricity that it is not held by a registered vu…