Research has shown that before the pandemic there was essentially no difference between the time that children spent on educational activities, but during the lockdown last year learning time among primary scho…

The timing of vaccination will be subject to vaccine supply, logistics and the characteristics of each vaccine. If I go looking for vaccine scepticism and ask whether vaccines do something to me, I get directed…

All of us waited for the publication of the report, but no one more so than the survivors and relatives of the survivors of the mother and baby homes. As we all know, the State and the church are responsible, a…

In the shorter term, I have told the vaccine task force to ensure clarity is provided to pharmacists, dentists, carers and other front-line healthcare workers in the coming days regarding when they will be vacc…

In April 2019, the Tánaiste leaked a confidential document to a friend of his, the then head of the NAGP. There are numerous emails from the then Minister, Deputy Harris, requesting the document from his advise…

I know the Minister, Deputy Ryan, said he had conversations with National Broadband Ireland, NBI.…

The Health (Amendment) (Dual Diagnosis: No Wrong Door) Bill aims to compel the Government to uphold its promise in the programme for Government where it states its intention to "Progress the National Clinical P…

The solution we arrived at - the protocol on Northern Ireland and Ireland - is somewhat controversial for some because it requires some level of checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland on trade in ord…

I ask the Minister now if he will seek to renegotiate the Common Fisheries Policy to get a fair share of the fish in Irish waters for our fishing industry? From the outset, all of us nationally and in the fishi…

On 15 January, the Department wrote to special schools and primary schools setting out details of the framework under which it is intended that in-school teaching and learning would take place in special school…

Student nurses and midwives are looking at this, as are others, and they are saying that what the Minister did over the past number of months is prioritise that individual over the needs of the thousands of stu…

Is the Taoiseach telling the Dáil that he is reassured that the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, can deliver an agreed return to school and services----- I thank the Deputy. I …

Brigid's District Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir by the Taoiseach, his Minister, and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and to raise the refusal by the Taoiseach's and his Ministers to meet with Councillor Kier…

Brexit is not good for Ireland, Britain or Europe, and Brexit was not our decision. As the Government motion notes, with the trade and co-operation agreement, the withdrawal agreement and the protocol now in pl…

Women, girls and children were brutalised in mother and baby homes, county homes and other institutions. It must not retraumatise survivors with questions or interrogations - it must be transparent, it must pri…

We need to give people the option of predicted grades because the students of 2021 are far more impacted than the students of 2020. I appeal to the Government to give certainty without delay to these young peop…

For many years, the survivors have looked for a medical card just as survivors from other institutions have been granted one. I ask the Minister that mental health supports be extended to all adoptees, birth pa…

The latest report available, from yesterday, states that there are now 13 hospitals without any ICU capacity, seven other hospitals that just have one ICU bed left and that a sizeable majority of patients in IC…

People are being hounded out of medical cards and people are being hounded by banks because we will not protect them. Under the protocol for prioritising people for the vaccine, the first group comprises nursin…

In October 2019, I submitted a complaint to the Central Bank regarding the practice of dual pricing in the insurance market. Section 3 will ban dual pricing by requiring insurance providers to use only rating f…