Debates
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.
In figures given to me by the Irish cancer Society, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer, in 2024, 47% of Carlow people diagnosed with cancer died from the disease. Deputy Callaghan has been a vocal advocate for …
I know that my party colleague, Senator Manus Boyle, along with Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher, the Minister of State, Deputy McConalogue, Deputy Doherty and his colleague Deputy Mac Lochlainn, and Deputy Charle…
The congregation decided to purchase Bessborough House, a large Georgian house on 210 acres, and opened Bessborough mother and baby home in 1922. Some 700 children who died at Bessborough are unaccounted for. I…
Deputy Sorca Clarke - To discuss Cloontagh national school. Deputy Darren O'Rourke - To discuss delivery of a new school building at Dunboyne junior and senior national schools. The matters raised by Deputies M…
As the Minister, Deputy Foley, set out earlier, the investigation of burial arrangements in mother and baby institutions, including Bessborough, was an important part of the work of the Commission of Investigat…
It is understood that this Bill seeks to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 to create a statutory entitlement to leave with pay from employment in order to enable an employee to avail of cervical, …
Deputy Sorca Clarke - To discuss Cloontagh national school. Deputy Colm Burke - To discuss making Ryeqo - relogulix, oestradiol and norethisterone - available under the GMS scheme. Deputy Louis O'Hara - To disc…
We should have a debate on inheritance tax and specifically on why, when we have worked all our lives while paying tax do we have to pay tax when we die, or rather why do our children have to.…
We need to change how we recruit and retain our gardaí and serving gardaí, and, indeed, how we use our retired gardaí. That is not a functioning Garda model; that is a broken Garda model. One of the biggest fai…
Sinn Féin has provided the Taoiseach with the solution: to completely remove excise duty and strip out carbon tax from home heating oil. In the jaws of an energy crisis when home heating oil has increased to re…
I hear every day from older people and their families who are struggling to get home care or a place in a nursing home. There are not enough carers to let them stay at home and there are unfortunately not enoug…
Over the past six months, the day ward has been closed on several occasions to facilitate overcrowding in Cork University Hospital, the Mercy Hospital and Kerry University Hospital. Mallow General Hospital, Ban…
The Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2026 seeks to put a right to housing into Bunreacht na hÉireann. Is riachtanas bunúsach é teach, agus is ceart bunúsach daonna é, ach fós ní…
The Government has reduced the rate of mineral oil tax for petrol, diesel and marked gas oil by 15 cent, 20 cent and 3 cent, respectively. They cannot put up with more delays from this Government because people…
Senator Boyhan's amendment provides assurances to us that the Minister is serious about keeping us in the ECHR, about the international frameworks that underpin our international protection system and our entir…
The motion is to extend the termination date of the financial contribution scheme for hosts of temporary protection beneficiaries from Ukraine, known as the accommodation recognition payment, ARP, scheme. Over …
mica redress |
Both words must appear in the same contribution |
"mica redress" |
That exact phrase, words together and in order |
housing OR homes |
Either word |
housing -dublin |
Housing, excluding anything mentioning Dublin |
hous* |
Starts with — housing, housed, householder |