Today, I call for a debate on the sheep sector. We have 35,000 sheep farming families in the country and it is about time that both of these Houses started to stand up and listen to the sheep sector. Senator Ca…

It also provides for the making of regulations in relation to the prescription and dispensing of veterinary medicinal products or medicated feed, including such areas as setting the maximum validity period of a…

Amendment No. 31 seeks to delete the transfer of functions under section 44D from the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to the Minister for Transport. Amendment No. 33 seeks the deletion …

This is a double payment for those relying on a working-age social welfare payment, for pensioners, for people with disabilities, for carers and for lone parents; some 1.3 million people in total.…

Section 18 covers a broad suite of decisions, including appeals, namely: appeals against all regulatory decisions of ComReg under the European Union (Electronic Communications Code) Regulations 2022; appeals ag…

The Government must commit to payment of a spring bonus for those relying on working-age social welfare payments, including pensioners, people with disabilities, carers and lone parents. People on social welfar…

• Q53 Further and Higher Education — Rose Conway-Walsh SF
• Q54 Third Level Fees — Aodhán Ó Ríordáin LAB
• Q55 Student Accommodation — Rose Conway-Walsh SF
• Q56 Technological Universities — Thomas Pringle IND
• Q57 Grant Payments — Mattie McGrath IND

• Q58 Third Level Staff — Gary Gannon SD
• Q60 Veterinary Services — Matt Carthy SF
• Q61 Student Accommodation — Alan Dillon FG
• Q62 Third Level Costs — David Stanton FG
• Q63 Student Accommodation — Martin Browne SF
• Q65 Departmental Properties — Robert Troy FF
• and 2 more

• Health Services — Colm Burke FG
• Antisocial Behaviour — Gary Gannon SD
• Fishing Industry — Mick Barry PBP
• Schools Building Projects — Ossian Smyth GP

• Q1 Community Welfare Services — Claire Kerrane SF
• Q2 Social Welfare Payments — Seán Sherlock LAB
• Q3 Social Welfare Code — Claire Kerrane SF
• Q4 Child Poverty — Gary Gannon SD
• Q5 Community Welfare Services — Paul Murphy PBP

Senator Seán Kyne - The need for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make a statement on the local property tax review and its implications for baseline funding for Galway County Council.…

• National Educational Psychological Service — Tim Lombard FG
• Apprenticeship Programmes — Sharon Keogan IND
• Disaster Response — Alice-Mary Higgins IND
• Local Authority Funding — Seán Kyne FG
• Defence Forces — Fiona O'Loughlin FF

• Q6 Social Welfare Offices — Pauline Tully SF
• Q7 Social Welfare Payments — Paul Murphy PBP
• Q8 Social Welfare Payments — Pauline Tully SF
• Q9 State Pensions — Claire Kerrane SF
• Q11 Social Welfare Benefits — Seán Sherlock LAB
• Q12 Community Employment Schemes — Claire Kerrane SF
• and 1 more

I want to particularly thank the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, for her engagement on the issue and her meeting last November with the Save Our Hall community campaign group. Senator Fitzpatrick spoke ab…

There is a history of violence against women and a lack of respect for women in this country. The area of sexual violence, the darkest area of violence against women, is one in which I have a special interest. …

It also provides for the establishment of an oil suppliers' emergency register to allow for timely communication between the Minister and oil suppliers during an oil emergency. We are in danger whereby we may h…

• Q60 Childcare Services — Kathleen Funchion SF
• Q61 Disability Services — Peter Fitzpatrick IND
• Q62 Ukraine War — Pauline Tully SF
• Q63 Ukraine War — Danny Healy-Rae IND

• Q65+ Housing Provision — Jennifer Murnane O'Connor FF
• Q66+ International Protection — Cathal Crowe FF
• Q68 Child Protection — Bernard Durkan FG
• Q69 Ministerial Responsibilities — Pa Daly SF
• Q64+ Childcare Services — Brian Leddin GP

So I am asking, will the Government introduce targeted and temporary mortgage interest relief to support these homeowners who are now paying up to 7.5% interest into the hands of vulture funds and will be payin…

On the examination process and how that is working through, I will relay the points raised by the Deputy and by Laura to the Minister, Deputy Foley, for her to come back to them with a full update on the progre…