In the context of assaults on emergency workers, it is useful to make reference to the Health and Safety Authority, which back in 2007 categorised violence in terms of verbal abuse, threats and physical abuse. …

This Bill seeks to provide the entitlement to councillors to take maternity, parental and adoptive leave. This Bill allows councillors to be treated the same as a member of staff in a local authority in taking …

Section 3 of the proposed Bill aims to address the rent affordability challenges building on foot of the inflation I mentioned by introducing a cap on rent increases in RPZs of 2% to operate in conjunction with…

• Q1+ National Risk Assessment — Richard Boyd Barrett PBP
• Q4+ Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements — Alan Kelly LAB
• Q8 Northern Ireland — Alan Kelly LAB

The Act also did not consider that land which had been used for agricultural purposes and rights of way would not have been registered and that rights of way for agricultural land would not apply to dwelling ho…

The sooner we can have people using e-scooters and e-bikes legally and on the road as fully licensed drivers, the better for society and road safety. I welcome the provisions relating to e-scooters and e-bikes.…

The SAR review report published in July 2019 also describes the measures undertaken by the Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, as the national aviation regulator to address recommendations arising from the AQE indep…

I have also received notice from Senator Garret Ahearn of the following matter: The need for the Minister of State with responsibility for public health, well-being and the national drugs strategy to make a sta…

Individuals cannot authorise antigen testing in schools, organise subsidies for antigen testing or institute a nationwide booster campaign. GPs, pharmacies and vaccination centres will be used for the booster v…

• Hospital Services — Martin Conway FG
• Health Services — Aisling Dolan FG
• Healthcare Policy — Garret Ahearn FG
• Registration of Births — Victor Boyhan IND

At the meeting of the Business Committee, a number of Opposition parties requested that the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, make a statement to the House on the abse…

I am delighted to introduce my third Bill to the House today, the Protection of Children’s Health (Idling of Mechanically Propelled Vehicles in Vicinity of Schools) Bill 2021, particularly as this is clean air …

With the permission of one family, I paid the other company for a birth certificate last week on the same day as the mother applied for her baby's birth certificate through the HSE's births, deaths and marriage…

This Bill seeks to guarantee that young people and children can access relationship and sexual education that is unbiased, fact-based and scientifically accurate in all schools that receive State funding. With …

So not every Member of the House can be present in the Gallery or the Chamber for the address of the Taoiseach on Thursday. I ask that the Cathaoirleach and Leader engage not with the Committee on Parliamentary…

• Q1+ Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements — Neale Richmond FG
• Q5+ An Garda Síochána — Mary Lou McDonald SF
• Q10+ Departmental Bodies — Mary Lou McDonald SF

Amendment No. 2 is a technical amendment on the name of the Prescription Act, to be clear about what we mean by the Act of 1832. I am speaking to amendment No. 3, on which amendment No. 6 is consequential. Amen…

Section 28 of the Principal Act (as amended by section 20 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018) is amended by the insertion of following subsection after subsection (1C): “(1CA) The following pl…

Michael’s estate; and (14) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell - to discuss plans to reduce to five months the time interval between the second Covid-19 vaccine and the booster vaccine. The matters raised by Deputies Ó Sno…

It removed the uncertainty in respect of the lawful sale and consumption of alcohol in outdoor seating areas where those outdoor seating areas have been permitted by the local authorities on public land or wher…