The Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 will belatedly provide for mandatory quarantine for some people coming from designated countries. The main aim of the Bill is to amend the Health Act 1947 to provide for mandato…

What is needed is for someone to take this combined scheme by the scruff of the neck, complete the M11 from Oilgate to Rosslare and upgrade the infrastructure of Rosslare Europort to facilitate Ireland's import…

I thank the Minister for meeting people in Tipperary last week. It makes no sense for peat to be imported, as Deputy Browne said. An ideological pursuit by some of the Minister's colleagues to try to eliminate …

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision in relation to certain tenants’ obligations to pay rent in respect of dwellings used for accommodation during academic term ti…

The UK has a list of 33 countries for which people have to quarantine. There will be mandatory hotel quarantine for people coming from some countries such that we will have some level of protection. We are impo…

The matters raised by Deputies Marc Ó Cathasaigh, Jennifer Whitmore, Pádraig O'Sullivan and Brian Stanley have been selected for discussion.…

Will they be subject to mandatory hotel quarantine? Without those elements, it is clear that this legislation is to be used by the Government to play at mandatory hotel quarantine and pretend it is doing it, wh…

• Sustainable Development Goals — Marc Ó Cathasaigh GP
• Wastewater Treatment — Jennifer Whitmore SD
• Covid-19 Tests — Pádraig O'Sullivan FF
• Health Services — Brian Stanley SF

My second question to the Minister is this: can he guarantee that access to a judicial review of the findings of the final report will be available to survivors in the event that the commission ceases to exist …

Sinn Féin is for public housing and affordable housing.…

However, this House will be curtailed in its debate, not by a vote of the entire House, but by a reduced number of Deputies. We are sitting here at enormous expense so that Deputies can vote, yet all Deputies--…

I call the Taoiseach. -----and the survivors take a judicial review, will this State defend the findings of the commission? Is the Taoiseach aware that the garda who fired the shot that killed George Nkencho ha…

I welcome this opportunity to speak about the New Decade, New Approach agreement of January last year, restoring to full operation the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement, including the Executive, the Nor…

The Bill also provides for mandatory quarantine for passengers who arrive in breach of the pre-departure negative PCR test requirement, until such time as a not-detected test result has been returned. The Bill …

Mandatory Hotel Quarantine for ALL travellers, repeatedly seeds the virus in our communities & imports new variants. It needs to be amended in many ways to close the loopholes on quarantine requirements and ens…

I have also received notice from Senator Lynn Boylan of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Justice to make a statement on issues relating to the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme and acce…

• Road Projects — Malcolm Byrne FF
• Taxi Licences — Joe O'Reilly FG
• Tenant Purchase Scheme — Robbie Gallagher FF
• Covid-19 Pandemic — Rebecca Moynihan LAB
• Housing Assistance Payment — Lynn Boylan SF
• Disability Services Provision — John Cummins FG

I would like us to ask the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, to come into this House to advise us on what the Government can do to protect those Ulster Bank account holders and what future the Government ca…

I am delighted to be here to speak about the issue of climate change and Ag Climatise, the national climate and air roadmap for the agriculture sector. Our small and medium-sized farmers are our most sustainabl…

I also pay tribute to the councillors' representatives on the Local Authority Members Association, LAMA, and the Association of Irish Local Government, AILG, who have done a tremendous job championing the role …