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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.

2023-04-26 · Dail · 25 speakers · 19,097 words
Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members]

We have a simple proposal today to tie rents to people’s incomes and ability to pay, and, in the longer term, we propose to give people the right to housing, which would force this Government to stop looking to…

2023-04-26 · Dail · 8 speakers · 5,999 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

When it comes to September-October, when we have a budget to put together, there will be a tax package and we will consider mortgage interest relief as part of that tax package, but we have to consider all the …

2023-04-26 · Seanad · 17 speakers · 7,175 words
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Jimmy Lai is a political prisoner and many other political prisoners are being held in Hong Kong. Senator Black proposed an amendment to the Order of Business - it was seconded by Senator Higgins - and that is …

2023-04-26 · Dail · 24 speakers · 5,454 words Questions
Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation

Alongside the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, and the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, I will meet with Macra later. As we know, clinical psychologists were already funded but counselling psychologists and educa…

2023-04-26 · Dail · 16 questions · 10 speakers · 6,459 words Questions
Questions · to the Taoiseach
  • Q1+ Child Poverty — Mary Lou McDonald SF
  • Q13+ National Economic and Social Council — Mary Lou McDonald SF
  • Q15 Regeneration Projects — Paul McAuliffe FF
  • Q16 Programme for Government — Aindrias Moynihan FF
2023-04-26 · Seanad · 5 speakers · 3,090 words
EU Regulations: Motion

Under the proposed API law enforcement regulation being discussed today, air carriers will be mandated to use a central router to transfer API data to the passenger information unit of each member state. While …

2023-04-26 · Seanad · 7 speakers · 7,591 words 1 vote
Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage

The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 16: “The code of conduct to protect the public interest from fossil fuel lobbying 16A. Amendment No. 4 proposes to introduce …

2023-04-26 · Dail · 33 speakers · 21,158 words
Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements

As Jonathan Powell, the Downing Street chief of staff at the time of the agreement, remarked in his contribution to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement last year, "…

2023-04-26 · Seanad · 15 speakers · 12,819 words
Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy

McCarthy is the first uachtarán from abroad to become president of the GAA speaks volumes on what our organisation is doing for Irish people throughout the world; not just Irish people, but people who want to b…

2023-04-26 · Dail · 2 speakers · 300 words
Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Bill 2019: From the Seanad

As regards the screening service provisions, it provides for mandatory open disclosure for completed individual patient-requested reviews of their screening and provides an obligation for the cancer screening s…

2023-04-26 · Seanad · 15 speakers · 10,761 words
Public Water Connection Charges: Motion

In summary, the motion states: "the current charge for the installation of a Non Domestic Small 1 connection (necessary for public water bottle refill stations) is €2,272; - connection charges represent a signi…

2023-04-26 · Dail · 8 speakers · 7,852 words 4 votes
Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

It is worth noting that in UK jurisdictions that have an offence of stirring up hatred, that is, incitement or hate speech, hatred is not defined except to make it referrable to certain characteristics, as is t…

2023-04-26 · Dail · 12 speakers · 14,645 words 3 votes
Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage

The amendment also references the terms of trade regarding the cattle, and that meat plants may be required to report on forward contracts on the quantity of cattle that were slaughtered, in addition to reporti…

2023-04-25 · Dail · 11 speakers · 6,212 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

What we need is for the Government to initiate a massive scaling up of affordable and social housing; what we get is a Government scrambling about, clutching at straws and trying to save a failed housing plan.…

2023-04-25 · Dail · 29 speakers · 8,561 words 1 vote
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Thursday's business shall be: - Motion re Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2023 (back from Committee) (without debate) - Historic and Archaeological Herit…

2023-04-25 · Seanad · 3 matters · 7 speakers · 5,058 words Commencement matters
Commencement Matters
  • Grant Payments — John Cummins FG
  • Hospital Services — Vincent P. Martin GP
  • National Monuments — Mary Fitzpatrick FF
2023-04-25 · Dail · 3 speakers · 398 words
Ministers and Secretaries (Attorney General) Bill 2023: First Stage

This is the Bill we prepared in order to reform the Office of the Attorney General.…

2023-04-25 · Seanad · 9 speakers · 3,467 words
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

We commend the Defence Forces who are working with other European forces, led by the French, in this exercise.…

2023-04-25 · Dail · 3 speakers · 402 words
Legal Aid (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995, and to provide for a more effective legal aid system. Almost every speaker on the Bill referred to a func…

2023-04-25 · Seanad · 9 speakers · 8,594 words
Finance Bill 2023 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage

Section 3 provides for: the extension of farm restructuring capital gains tax relief to 31 December 2025; the extension of young trained farmer stock relief to 31 December 2024; the extension of registered farm…

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