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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.
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 Social Protection to make a statement on the continued …
Thursday’s business shall be: - Statements on Defects in Apartments - Report of the Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing (not to exceed 2 hrs 25 mins) - Statements on Social Housing Income Level Threshol…
I thank Senator Erin Brigid McGreehan and call Senator Burke. I join other Members in congratulating the Cathaoirleach and all members of staff on the very suitable and excellent commemorative event yesterday i…
Bobby Aylward was central to the success of Ballyhale Shamrocks. There was more to Bobby than this House. All of the Aylward family can feel very proud of what Bobby did.…
I do not believe a wealth tax as proposed here would have the effect that the Senators are contending because we have many other wealth taxes within our economy that provide alternative and effective ways of ge…
Sinn Féin does not have confidence in Deputy Darragh O'Brien as Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Opposition in this Dáil does not have confidence in the housing Minister and, more import…
It is to be set at just three times the local property tax rate, which means the tax will amount to only 0.3% of the property value. Accordingly, VHT would be applied to properties that are residential properti…
In recognition of the challenges faced by Departments in planning for major capital projects, the rolling multi-annual capital envelopes introduced in 2004 allow for the carryover of unspent voted capital expen…
Eight long years since the incoming Taoiseach was Minister for Health, the health service is facing crises the scale of which we have not witnessed before: 1 million patients on waiting lists; a record 12,500 p…
The carer's allowance is a qualifying payment for access to both the back to education allowance and the back to work enterprise allowance.…
Anything that encourages public authorities to consider and reflect on human rights and equality issues when they are designing procurement is important. What I have done here is very much framed it as guidance…
Only 122 women have served in the Seanad over the past 100 years, of whom 23 are in the current Seanad. It is a great honour to address the Seanad as leader of the Fianna Fáil grouping in Seanad Éireann. I than…
One of the issues I spoke about in Egypt was the need to reframe the narrative and debate around climate action, climate change and what we can do. I want to use my time to raise another issue of climate justic…
Again, my response to amendment No. 30 is the same as for amendment No. 29. My response to amendment No. 34 is the same as that for amendment No. 29. I move amendment No. 37: In page 8, line 24, to delete “and”…
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 |