When the national minimum wage was introduced in 2000, it was determined that the apprentices should be excluded from the Act in recognition of the unique rates of such apprenticeships, and the fact that a long…

• Q1 Foreign Policy — Matt Carthy SF
• Q2 Undocumented Irish in the USA — Michael Lowry IND
• Q3 Passport Services — Matt Carthy SF
• Q4 Ukraine War — Michael McNamara IND

I have received notice from the following Senators that they propose to raise the following matters: Senator Eugene Murphy - The need for the Minister for Education to make a statement on school transport provi…

• School Transport — Eugene Murphy FF
• EU Funding — Fintan Warfield SF
• Sports Funding — Barry Ward FG
• Employment Support Services — Erin McGreehan FF

• Q5+ Foreign Conflicts — Matt Carthy SF
• Q6 Northern Ireland Institutions — Aindrias Moynihan FF
• Q7 International Relations — David Stanton FG
• Q8 Passport Services — James O'Connor FF
• Q10 Good Friday Agreement — Bernard Durkan FG
• Q9 Ukraine War — Christopher O'Sullivan FF
• and 2 more

I am delighted that Senator Gallagher is the Acting Leader, as I want him to see whether he can arrange a debate with someone from his area, namely, the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Hump…

The draft order that was before the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment yesterday, attended by Senators Crowe and Ahearn, amends the previous SEO made in 2021, which in turn amended the SEO made…

The Minister, Deputy Harris, is going to the prison officers' conference today and apparently he will announce that he proposes to demolish the separation unit in Mountjoy Prison and build a 100-cell accommodat…

• Q70 Energy Prices — Darren O'Rourke SF
• Q71 Energy Policy — Bríd Smith PBP
• Q72 Waste Management — Darren O'Rourke SF
• Q73 Wind Energy Generation — Cathal Berry IND
• Q74 International Agreements — Joan Collins I4C

• Q77 Illegal Dumping — Thomas Gould SF
• Q78 National Broadband Plan — Ruairí Ó Murchú SF
• Q82 Energy Policy — Darren O'Rourke SF
• Q83 North-South Interconnector — Brendan Smith FF
• Q91 Environmental Schemes — Thomas Gould SF
• Q92 Environmental Schemes — Darren O'Rourke SF
• and 1 more

Deputy Niall Collins did not disclose this interest and he did not withdraw from the meeting. The decision made in January 2007, which Deputy Niall Collins participated in without declaring that his wife was in…

The Minister for Finance, Deputy McGrath, and the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, are now looking at the next round of that but it would not be th…

That final offer was notified by letter dated 14 September 2007 from the independent auctioneer to the senior engineer of the council that the property should be sold at that price with the proviso that it was …

Article 2 states: Each Party undertakes to institute, by means appropriate to the State in question, a legal system for the protection of the archaeological heritage, making provision for: i the maintenance of …

• Hospital Services — Bernard Durkan FG
• Waste Management — Jennifer Whitmore SD
• School Transport — Pádraig O'Sullivan FF
• Rail Network — Martin Kenny SF

No surrogacy arrangement should be entered into in a country which prohibits surrogacy. I warmly welcome the opportunity to discuss the upcoming surrogacy legislation following the work of the Special Oireachta…

Deputy Aindrias Moynihan - To discuss the need to advance a wastewater treatment plant at Crossbarry, County Cork. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne - To discuss energy allowances in the household benefits package. Depu…

I have received notice from the following Senators that they propose to raise the following matters: Senators Robbie Gallagher and Niall Blaney - The need for the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht,…

• Special Educational Needs — Alan Dillon FG
• Insurance Industry — Ruairí Ó Murchú SF
• Industrial Relations — Louise O'Reilly SF

• Departmental Programmes — Robbie Gallagher FF
• School Enrolments — Emer Currie FG
• Wastewater Treatment — Róisín Garvey GP
• Forestry Sector — Victor Boyhan IND