The Deputy is also ignoring the fact this budget does deal with many thousands of people who rent, but maybe people on the housing assistance payment, HAP, or on the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, or people …

Budget 2022 could have and should have been a budget for change. Last year's budget allocated €130 million in 2021 and it is to be €150 million for next year. The Government described this budget as a "recover,…

I have also received notice from Senator Micheál Carrigy of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications to make a statement on the provision of a natural gas pipe…

• Grant Payments — Mark Wall LAB
• Departmental Schemes — Fiona O'Loughlin FF
• Energy Infrastructure — Micheál Carrigy FG
• Work Permits — Malcolm Byrne FF

Budget 2022 should have been a budget with vision, a budget that was targeted, a budget for change. The budget we needed for 2022 was a budget that delivered real change for people throughout Ireland.…

It is totally inappropriate that a Financial Resolution on the Maritime Area Planning Bill is being taken this evening. The Bill will go to Committee Stage next week and there should be time for a discussion on…

As for the many people living alone who have this craving for cigarettes, it is unfair to suggest that this increase in the cost of a box of cigarettes would help them or make them think they should stop smokin…

In fact, because of the pandemic, I understand that this year, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service bulk-imported blood from England due to a shortage of blood here.…

As the Minister of State pointed out, the budget includes €520 million in income tax packages, increasing the band rate by €1,500 and increasing the personal tax credit, employee tax credit and earned tax credi…

• Q1 Employment Support Services — Claire Kerrane SF
• Q2 Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment — Cathal Berry IND
• Q3 Departmental Schemes — Claire Kerrane SF
• Q4 Social Welfare Eligibility — Danny Healy-Rae IND
• Q5 Fuel Poverty — Claire Kerrane SF

I have received notice from Senator Maria Byrne that, on the motion for the Commencement of the House today, she proposes to raise the following matter: The need for the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Tr…

• Enterprise Support Services — Maria Byrne FG
• Greenways Provision — John McGahon FG
• Schools Building Projects — Seán Kyne FG
• Care Services — Garret Ahearn FG

• Q6 Employment Support Services — Richard Bruton FG
• Q7 Departmental Schemes — Fergus O'Dowd FG
• Q8 Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment — John Lahart FF
• Q11 Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment — Ruairí Ó Murchú SF
• Q13 Domestic Violence — Niamh Smyth FF
• Q14+ Community Employment Schemes — Jennifer Murnane O'Connor FF
• and 2 more

In transitioning from being in care to being in after-care, young people lose access to many important figures in their lives, such as foster carers, care staff, social workers and therapeutic support staff. I …

I move amendment No. 13: In page 11, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: " Protection of smuggled persons from prosecution 10. I move amendment No. 14: In page 11, between lines 21 and 22, to inse…

• Q95 Childcare Services — Kathleen Funchion SF
• Q96 Childcare Services — Paul Murphy PBP
• Q97 Childcare Services — Kathleen Funchion SF
• Q98 Childcare Services — Verona Murphy IND
• Q99 Rights of People with Disabilities — Thomas Pringle IND

• Q101 Childcare Services — Paul McAuliffe FF
• Q102 Rights of People with Disabilities — Michael Moynihan FF
• Q103 Youth Services — Brendan Griffin FG
• Q104 Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries — John Lahart FF
• Q105+ Asylum Seekers — John Lahart FF
• Q109 Direct Provision System — Niamh Smyth FF
• and 1 more

How does the Tánaiste think it is morally justifiable that workers in this country pay a minimum of 20% tax on their income but he does not think it is acceptable that corporations would pay the same amount in …

Would it be the preference of the Tánaiste that IDA Ireland, an agency for which the Tánaiste is responsible, would locate data centres on the site? The scenes at UCC yesterday when 131 students queued at a stu…

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 to prohibit the practice of designating employment as self-employment; to bring the Garda Sío…