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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.

2021-11-25 · Dail · 4 speakers · 6,362 words
Employment Permits (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members]

One of the key issues highlighted was when these very vulnerable workers, in a sector where permits are often not properly arranged by employers and where there has been poor treatment of migrant workers histor…

2021-11-24 · Dail · 1 speaker · 304 words
Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters

The matters raised by Deputies Michael Healy-Rae, Martin Browne and Tully, Ó Cuív and Fitzmaurice, and Bruton and Carroll MacNeill have been selected for discussion.…

2021-11-24 · Dail · 4 issues · 11 speakers · 7,152 words Topical issues
Topical Issue Debate
  • Agriculture Industry — Michael Healy-Rae IND
  • Disability Services — Martin Browne SF
  • Legislative Programme — Éamon Ó Cuív FF
  • Special Educational Needs — Richard Bruton FG
2021-11-24 · Seanad · 4 matters · 6 speakers · 6,101 words Commencement matters
Commencement Matters
  • Health Services — Jerry Buttimer FG
  • Cybersecurity Policy — Malcolm Byrne FF
  • Electric Vehicles — Robbie Gallagher FF
  • Renewable Energy Generation — Lynn Boylan SF
2021-11-24 · Dail · 23 speakers · 18,394 words
Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members]

The Bill amends the Education Act so that health, relationships and sex education should not in the first instance be linked to ethos or characteristic spirit but be taught as part of the set curriculum, standa…

2021-11-24 · Seanad · 20 speakers · 10,107 words
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

When Senator Crowe raised the issue of a sentence, you said that members should not comment on a sentence that is handed down. Senator Dolan raised the issue of antigen testing and welcomed the response from th…

2021-11-24 · Dail · 9 speakers · 6,148 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

People do not get evicted from a council house because of their income, but if they are homeless, they get removed from the list and evicted from the homeless accommodation because they have increased their inc…

2021-11-24 · Seanad · 9 speakers · 9,083 words
Companies (Emission Reporting) Bill 2021: Second Stage

There is already a level of emissions reporting taking place in the Irish economy at both an EU level under the non-financial reporting directive and the emissions trading scheme and at local authority level fo…

2021-11-24 · Dail · 21 speakers · 5,085 words Questions
Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation

However, in a recent radio interview, the chief executive of University Hospital Limerick stated the hospital had 12 ICU beds, 16 high-dependency beds and 13 people in the ICU.…

2021-11-24 · Seanad · 7 speakers · 1,913 words 3 votes
Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed)

The proposed new section 6(1)(a) inserts a substitute section 29 of the principal Act to define a Part 4 tenancy.…

2021-11-24 · Dail · 14 questions · 7 speakers · 6,627 words Questions
Questions · to the Taoiseach
  • Q1+ Climate Change Negotiations — Alan Kelly LAB
  • Q5+ Cabinet Committees — Mary Lou McDonald SF
  • Q12+ Departmental Programmes — Mary Lou McDonald SF
2021-11-24 · Dail · 15 speakers · 17,680 words
Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage

The primary objective and focus of the Bill is to amend the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) Act 2000 to facilitate a revised board composition for the Marine Casualty Investigation Board,…

2021-11-24 · Dail · 39 speakers · 32,239 words
Covid-19: New Measures: Statements

The Covid tracker app is a perfect way for all people in society to access basic information, whether it is to advise people of PCR testing availability in their locality, to remind people of how to avail of an…

2021-11-24 · Dail · 7 speakers · 6,874 words
Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage

The first part of providing humanitarian assistance is obvious, but I am sure that some of these traffickers would quite readily say that they were providing humanitarian assistance.…

2021-11-24 · Seanad · 10 speakers · 25,324 words 1 vote
Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage

Tairgim leasú Uimh. 8: I leathanach 9, idir línte 29 agus 30, an méid seo a leanas a chur isteach: “Leasú ar alt 9 den Phríomh-Acht 4.…

2021-11-23 · Dail · 7 speakers · 5,464 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

We are two years into the pandemic and 12 years into the ICU capacity crisis and the Government has not even come close to doing enough for ICU capacity. How many permanent intensive care unit, ICU, beds, not i…

2021-11-23 · Seanad · 1 speaker · 429 words
Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad

I have also received notice from Senator Marie Sherlock of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Social Protection to make a statement on the steps being taken to reduce the backlog in birth regis…

2021-11-23 · Dail · 19 speakers · 4,799 words 1 vote
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

People are talking about antigen tests being free, and they should be, but we need PCR testing and we need walk-in PCR testing to be available. The higher education sector has used approximately 22,000 antigen …

2021-11-23 · Seanad · 4 matters · 6 speakers · 6,146 words Commencement matters
Commencement Matters
  • Digital Archiving — Fintan Warfield SF
  • Student Accommodation — Mary Fitzpatrick FF
  • Registration of Births — Marie Sherlock LAB
  • Traveller Accommodation — Tim Lombard FG
2021-11-23 · Dail · 3 speakers · 718 words
Seller's Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: First Stage

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to establish a statutory procedure whereby when a Seller of a property places the property on the market, a set of legal documents (the “Seller’…

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