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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.
It is completely unacceptable that because the State refuses to provide the services that children with special needs need, their families have to take the State to court and involve themselves in litigation to…
The matters raised by Deputies Joan Collins, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Patrick Costello and Bríd Smith; Verona Murphy; Neasa Hourigan; and Niamh Smyth have been selected for discussion.…
Project Ireland must focus on rural broadband and planning for families who wish to live in rural Ireland. On Monday, the new plan for rural development, Our Rural Future, was launched.…
The Minister of State will be aware of the survey of 1,250 carers carried out by Family Carers Ireland in late 2020. It commits the Government to prioritising carers in the vaccination programme, providing fina…
According to a survey published by Family Carers Ireland last May, 74% of family carers felt that the Government had not responded well to the needs of family carers during the initial stages of the pandemic. F…
I led that change by providing pupil-teacher ratios for the first time for all children with special needs and specifically for children with autism in respect of special classes, with one teacher and special n…
To have a proper session on that, we need to have - if the Deputy speaking now might excuse me - a situation where the Ministers who are in the Cabinet who are or have been Ministers for Health, namely the Mini…
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999, to include explicit provision for the Minister to provide policy direction to the Commission for R…
The European Union is an important exporter of vaccines and this should be acknowledged. The European Union is exporting millions of vaccines outside the European Union yet they are not available to countries l…
This meant that a perpetrator and a deceased child could be identified but only if such particulars were not likely to lead to the identification of a child witness or a living child victim in the proceedings.…
Turning to the details of the legislation, the Bill amends or appeals sections 4 and 5 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act of 2009, section 16A of the Ministers and Secretarie…
Today the Government launched Our Rural Future, a new plan for rural Ireland. A number of people, from a rural perspective, have raised the issue of national planning and development guidelines as development p…
If the Minister of State cannot confirm to the House that the report of the senior counsel has been made available to the whistleblower, I sincerely hope she will prevail on the Secretary General of the Departm…
However, a question arises, particularly in light of what happened with the Beacon Hospital, about whether the vaccines are going to the people with underlying health conditions who need vaccination the most or…
Our families, our children, our young people, our old people, people who have lost their jobs and people who are losing their businesses are all on tenterhooks. Maybe we will restrict what they do when they tra…
Amendment No. 2 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 1; amendment No. 8 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 7; amendment No. 10 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 9; amendment No. 13 is a p…
mica redress |
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"mica redress" |
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housing OR homes |
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housing -dublin |
Housing, excluding anything mentioning Dublin |
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