We have to make people want to spend time in our towns and cities, to enjoy themselves, and to spend money in retail and hospitality. [...] We need outdoor dining and drinking spaces, we need true public spaces…

Since amendment No. 10 was not ruled in order, this amendment instead calls for at least a report on the potential to extend the general payments and enhanced medical cards to all persons who, as mixed-race chi…

To speed up the delivery of offshore wind industries in our country in order to enable the first phase of our objectives for 5 GW of offshore wind by 2030, plus 2 GW that we want converted to hydrogen or some o…

There was much trumpeting of the recent auction for the contracts for offshore renewable wind energy. The motion refers to the policy statement on the framework for phase 2 offshore wind, and this includes the …

In making a determination and subsequent declaration, the Circuit Court will take account of the same criteria that were examined by the court delays assessor and, similar to the assessment process, any compens…

Essentially, this would enable the regulator to require the person by written notice, referred to in this section as an information notice served on the person in the agricultural and food sector, to give to th…

Kathleen Lynn’s tireless championing of social justice and public health; - that the new National Children’s Hospital identity should be directly linked with the social justice values of this pioneering female …

The purpose of the Bill is to give legislative effect to the child benefit summer bonus of €100 for each qualifying child, announced by the Government in February of this year. The purpose of the Bill is to giv…

We also heard today that we are moving from those circumstances of insecure and temporary contracts, in many cases fixed-term contracts that apply only during academic term time, do not allow for any research w…

I have received notice from the following Senators that they propose to raise the following matters: Senator Marie Sherlock - The need for the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to make a …

She mentioned the €12 increase in the weekly pension payment, which came into effect in January, but she did not mention the expansion of the fuel allowance to 70,000 lower income people who are pensioners, whi…

• Energy Conservation — Marie Sherlock LAB

I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Statements on Accommodation Needs for New Arrival to Ireland (not to exceed 210 mins) . Thursday's business shall be: - Statements on Biodiversity Action (not to exceed 14…

• Q1+ Cabinet Committees — Mary Lou McDonald SF
• Q15+ Economic Policy — Alan Dillon FG
• Q27+ Cabinet Committees — Alan Dillon FG

• Special Educational Needs — Fiona O'Loughlin FF
• Broadcasting Sector — Malcolm Byrne FF

From this House and the political leadership, it is important that we acknowledge no one, and not Government policy, is making people blockade other people from getting to where they need to. Senator Seery Kear…

We know that many people seeking international protection are economic asylum seekers. Whenever one says anything about the far right, people will say. "There is no far right; they are just ordinary people." Of…

Ahern for marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement with us today. The Good Friday Agreement is ultimately about putting the future of Northern Ireland in the hands of the people of Northern Ire…

One just has to look at hospital waiting lists, people left on trolleys, people waiting in accident and emergency, mental health services, early interventions and assessments of need of children. These sites in…

To that end, the Bill will introduce a stand-alone offence of stalking under the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997. While stalking behaviours can be prosecuted as harassment under the 1997 Act, the…