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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.
Bulgaria has expelled ten diplomats and the Slovakian ambassador told the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs this morning that his Government has also expelled staff from the Russian Embassy there.…
The Bill will facilitate the transfer of specialist community-based disability services from the Minister for Health to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. The purpose of thi…
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the ongoing registration of domestic waste water systems and to eliminate the requirement to register by a prescribed date in ord…
A dedicated Ukraine unit is being established to manage the provision of accommodation and related services to Ukrainian refugees. I recently met with both the Ukrainian and Polish ambassadors and I have commit…
Along with our colleagues in the Green Party and Fianna Fáil, we in government have committed to establishing a gambling regulator focused on public safety and well-being, covering gambling online and in person…
This is a Bill which, if passed, would mean we would have a referendum to enshrine neutrality in the Constitution.…
Second, this Bill also makes a number further amendments to European Arrest Warrant Act 2003 to ensure there is a continued efficient operation of European arrest warrant system within the State.…
Section 50 states that "a surrogacy agreement is a permitted surrogacy only where the surrogacy is a domestic surrogacy", thereby failing to recognise international commercial surrogacy arrangements. Section 50…
As for how the NAB operates, the managing director of the IMF may make a proposal to establish what is referred to as an activation period, during which the fund may call on NAB participants to provide resource…
I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, to delete lines 12 to 26 and substitute the following: "(4) The Minister shall appoint the National Building Control Office as the registration body under subsection (2) .".…
People who have been diagnosed with cancer in the past are simply asking that their future lives are not defined by cancer. Friday is Daffodil Day, and I commend the Irish Cancer Society on its decades of advoc…
In terms of post offices, the war in Yemen or the national maternity hospital, the Government has no difficulty with there being a debate or statements on these issues but that would have to be agreed by the Bu…
I have also received notice from Senators Maria Byrne and Martin Conway of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick. I have …
This week, I had several representations from healthcare workers to say that it still has not been paid and that the Government is essentially proposing an unsustainable model which the representatives of the h…
Before turning to this week’s European Council agenda, I will briefly update the House on these recent meetings, which were a special meeting of the European Council on 24 February and an informal meeting of th…
That the Government is applying carbon tax on home heating oil not only tells people they have to suck it up, but that the Government is going to put a further tax on that carbon tax.…
I thank Senator McGahon and Senator Horkan for their worthwhile and heartfelt contributions. Senator Dooley also spoke about the rising cost of fuel, as did Senator Warfield in the context of the cost of living…
Sinn Féin will support this Bill, which repeals and replaces the Garda Síochána (Compensation) Acts 1941 and 1945, which are the basis for dealing with Garda compensation claims. The Bill is to replace the Gard…
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housing OR homes |
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Housing, excluding anything mentioning Dublin |
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