Debates
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.
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to reduce rents to affordable levels by limiting them to a maximum of a quarter of monthly household…
The resources allocated to the Garda in recent years have enabled the Commissioner to assign extra resources to our specialist units involved in tackling organised crime, including the armed support unit, the G…
This Part provides for the notification of the director of the National Museum that unclaimed property is held by an institution, for the examination of unclaimed property by the director, and for the retention…
Regardless of whether we might disagree ideologically with the Government on what is a fair and sustainable tax, we can all agree that its vacant homes tax is not doing the job it should and our proposed vacant…
I do not know if we need to have a debate about this particular report, but we need to have an overall debate around sexual violence, what is happening and how we are educating people, both on the giving and re…
Northern Ireland, where Sinn Féin has some sway, is seeing a reduction of approximately 30% in the delivery of social housing year on year, while we in this jurisdiction are seeing an increase in housing delive…
We had a discussion on this at Cabinet yesterday and my understanding is that the census figure for vacant properties is 167,000 but the actual, real, likely figure for vacancies, given the fact that many peopl…
In 2021, there were 7,155 victims of trafficking in Europe.…
It is called "sheep worrying", not "sheep attacking". If we are going to sustain the sheep sector and particularly the sheep wool sector, we know we will need to improve this. If we rear sheep, every part of th…
The Bill allows for an increase in the number of judges in the District Court, Circuit Court, High Court and Court of Appeal. The Courts Bill 2023, if passed, will increase the maximum number of judges in the D…
The payment scheme is a key measure in the Government’s action plan for survivors and former residents of mother and baby and county home institutions, which aims to provide a holistic response to the most pres…
The transposition of the directive on representative actions means that, for the first time in Irish law, a group of consumers can take an action through a qualified entity. The directive on representative acti…
Sisters of Joseph of Cluny, Killiney in 2016, the court ruled in favour of the schools in both cases, saying: Accidents can happen, and a school is not automatically to blame, and that sport and playtime is an …
In terms of social housing, 7,500 new homes were built last year by local authorities, approved housing bodies, AHBs, and through Part V. Last year, 30,000 new homes were built and more than one third of them w…
I have received notice from the following Senators that they propose to raise the following matters: Senator Martin Conway - The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on plans for a national haem…
I call on Sinn Féin, and on the leader of Sinn Féin in particular, to affirm that they will vote for the renewal of the Special Criminal Court in June - not an abstention, not not turning up, but that they will…
mica redress |
Both words must appear in the same contribution |
"mica redress" |
That exact phrase, words together and in order |
housing OR homes |
Either word |
housing -dublin |
Housing, excluding anything mentioning Dublin |
hous* |
Starts with — housing, housed, householder |