• State Bodies — Victor Boyhan IND
• Planning Issues — Paul Daly FF
• General Practitioner Services — Aisling Dolan FG
• Ukraine War — Mary Seery Kearney FG

They are drugs workers, youth workers, community employment workers, mental health workers and people working with people with disabilities.…

I welcome the Spanish ambassador to Ireland, H.E. He is familiar with our weather, having described the weather in his part of Spain as "Galway weather". There are more than 40,000 Irish citizens living in Spai…

The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has obtained Government approval for an action plan arising from phase 1 of the recommendations of the Office of the Planning Regulator, OPR, as part of t…

Senator Murphy spoke with great clarity about how Amber Barrett's integrity and heartfelt display of emotion last night captured everything about the team, including the support she got from her team members ar…

That is something we will raise with the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan. I ask the Deputy to engage directly with the Minister for Finance as that Bill is published and …

A key tool in this Act is the derelict sites levy. In 2021, 19 local authorities did not collect a single red cent in derelict sites levies. We know that the sites on the register are only a drop in the ocean o…

The commission also determined that it can be concluded that the Siteserv transaction was, from the perspective of the bank, so tainted by impropriety and wrongdoing, that the transaction was not commercially s…

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 and to provide for related matters. This Bill sets out to provid…

Data on breastfeeding rates only commenced in Irish maternity hospitals in 2019, and in that time breastfeeding rates have declined from 63.8% at birth in 2019 to 62.3% in 2020; - the Lancet Series on breastfee…

Senators are aware that there has been an extensive dialogue with Senators, the Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, and the Irish Air Line Pilots Association, IALPA, on this issue of a forum and licenceholders chart…

The Employment Permits Bill 2022 will consolidate the existing employment permits Acts, namely the Employment Permits Act 2003, the Employment Permits Act 2006 and the Employment Permits (Amendment) Act 2014.…

The Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has also heard there is evidence to suggest that the employment rights of workers under the permit system, such as levels of pay and conditions of employment, a…

I also confirm that I intend to bring Committee Stage amendments to this Bill to introduce a form of domestic violence leave, following the publication of the domestic violence leave report, which includes reco…

Essentially, this amendment ensures that the Minister establishes a committee to look at ways by which future schemes relating to the provision of electricity costs emergency benefit payments are allocated in a…

Hugh Kelly, 59; Robert Garwe, 50; Martina Martin, 49, Martin McGill, 49; James O'Flaherty, 48; Catherine O'Donnell, 39; Jessica Gallagher, 24; Leona Harper, 14; James Monaghan, 13; and little Shauna Flanagan Ga…

The website states: "If you do not keep your PPP PAYG [PrepayPower pay-as-you-go] Meter topped up with credit, it will self-disconnect and your electricity supply will cut off." On vulnerable customers, it stat…

Senator Barry Ward - The need for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make a statement on the guidelines in place in local authority areas in determining accessible parking locations and …

Thursday’s business shall be: - Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 (Second Stage) - Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 (Second Stage) Thursday evening business shall be …

• Community Employment Schemes — Sharon Keogan IND
• Scientific Research — Malcolm Byrne FF
• Legislative Programme — Tim Lombard FG