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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.

2022-06-15 · Dail · 8 speakers · 14,448 words
Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “ “Oversight Committee” means the DNA Database System Oversight Committee;”.…

2022-06-15 · Seanad · 15 speakers · 12,769 words
Sick Leave Bill 2022: Second Stage

Section 11 provides that the rights of an employee will not be affected by exercising his or her right to sick leave under this Bill and that sick leave may not be recorded as any other form of leave. If people…

2022-06-15 · Seanad · 6 speakers · 5,245 words
Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage

I use the phrase "loyalty penalty" as shorthand to cover the practice that in many insurance companies the more loyal one is to a particular insurance company on the motor insurance side or the home insurance s…

2022-06-15 · Seanad · 23 speakers · 18,509 words 1 vote
Cost of Living: Motion

In terms of the cost-of-living package for budget 2023, we need to build on what we did as a Government in budget 2022 but to include further income tax adjustments so that the squeezed middle does not lose mos…

2022-06-15 · Dail · 11 speakers · 14,149 words 1 vote
Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

It is not for one particular political party but for all political parties to participate in our political system. Again, as I said earlier, it could only be by misleading the court because a lottery licence ca…

2022-06-14 · Dail · 8 speakers · 6,308 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

Last night, the British Government published legislation that gives British Ministers power to override unilaterally parts of the Irish protocol.…

2022-06-14 · Seanad · 1 speaker · 639 words
Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad

I have also received notice from Senator Denis O’Donovan of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the provision of additional neurology nurses in Cork University Hosp…

2022-06-14 · Dail · 21 speakers · 6,615 words 1 vote
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Thursday's business shall be the Statements on Special Educational Needs (not to exceed 210 minutes). It is wrong, as the Taoiseach will have to agree, to push forward the Electoral Reform Bill 2022, with Repor…

2022-06-14 · Seanad · 4 matters · 6 speakers · 6,279 words Commencement matters
Commencement Matters
  • National Monuments — Fintan Warfield SF
  • Hospital Services — Robbie Gallagher FF
  • Departmental Programmes — Victor Boyhan IND
  • Special Educational Needs — Tim Lombard FG
2022-06-14 · Seanad · 21 speakers · 9,451 words
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

I support Senator Craughwell's motion on Georgia and I wish to be associated with the remarks of Senator Wilson regarding the need for the motion to be progressed today. She was very clear that the majority of …

2022-06-14 · Seanad · 2 speakers · 590 words
Georgia's Application for Membership of the European Union: Motion

Calls on the [European Commission] to consider setting the target of the full gradual access to the Single Market for Georgia and step up initiatives aimed at deeper sectoral integration with a view to achieve …

2022-06-14 · Dail · 16 questions · 12 speakers · 7,613 words Questions
Questions · to the Taoiseach
  • Q1+ Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements — Ivana Bacik LAB
  • Q4+ Departmental Offices — Mary Lou McDonald SF
  • Q10+ National Economic and Social Council — Mary Lou McDonald SF
2022-06-14 · Dail · 21 speakers · 18,176 words
Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage

The judgment in this case was that there is no legal basis underpinning the system of Garda court presenters at District Court level. I know cases are being adjourned because the High Court decision means the G…

2022-06-14 · Seanad · 11 speakers · 10,839 words
Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage

Firstly, the Bill provides the legislative basis to place the circular economy strategy, circular economy programme and the national food waste prevention roadmap on a statutory footing. The Bill replaces the e…

2022-06-14 · Dail · 1 speaker · 604 words
Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters

The matters raised by Deputies Pádraig O'Sullivan; Michael Ring; Matt Carthy, Martin Kenny and Mairéad Farrell; and Marc MacSharry have been selected for discussion.…

2022-06-14 · Seanad · 15 speakers · 13,494 words
Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

As a representative of Ukraine and the Parliament of Ukraine, I am sure every Ukrainian hugely appreciates Ireland's aid, its support and its standing with Ukraine in the times of grief and suffering when the R…

2022-06-14 · Dail · 24 speakers · 17,620 words
Special Educational Needs School Places: Motion [Private Members]

A new special school has been established in Cork in this school year and a new special school is being established in the 2022-23 school year in Cork. Government policy on supporting children with special educ…

2022-06-14 · Seanad · 9 speakers · 10,527 words 2 votes
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)

We already have mechanisms for substitute consent in exceptional circumstances, but the Bill makes it easier for developers to access the process for seeking substitute consent, as all the power to initiate it …

2022-06-14 · Dail · 4 questions · 3 speakers · 4,286 words Questions
Priority Questions · to the Minister for Transport
  • Q59 Transport Policy — Darren O'Rourke SF
  • Q60 Dublin Airport Authority — Duncan Smith LAB
  • Q61 Public Transport — Darren O'Rourke SF
  • Q62 Aviation Industry — Darren O'Rourke SF
2022-06-14 · Dail · 12 questions · 11 speakers · 8,839 words Questions
Other Questions · to the Minister for Transport
  • Q63+ Public Transport — Kieran O'Donnell FG
  • Q64 Transport Policy — Catherine Connolly IND
  • Q68+ Bus Services — Bríd Smith PBP
  • Q69 Transport Costs — Jennifer Carroll MacNeill FG
  • Q70+ Transport Policy — Neasa Hourigan GP
  • Q71+ Dublin Airport Authority — Louise O'Reilly SF
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