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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.

2020-12-15 · Dail · 26 speakers · 16,626 words
Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members]

The Bill seeks to amend the Housing Act 1988 to provide a legal definition of persons at risk of homelessness and to give the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the power to provide people with…

2020-12-15 · Dail · 1 speaker · 661 words
Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters

The matters raised by Deputies Dessie Ellis; Brendan Smith and Barry Cowen; Joe Carey; and Marian Harkin have been selected for discussion.…

2020-12-15 · Dail · 4 issues · 10 speakers · 7,077 words Topical issues
Topical Issue Debate
  • Mortgage Insurance — Dessie Ellis SF
  • Northern Ireland — Brendan Smith FF
  • Urban Regeneration and Development Fund — Joe Carey FG
  • Regional Airports — Marian Harkin IND
2020-12-14 · Seanad · 9 speakers · 6,805 words
Central Mental Hospital (Relocation) Bill 2020: Second Stage

It was constructed in Dundrum and later, under the Mental Treatment Act 1961, renamed the Central Mental Hospital. It provides for the closure of the Dundrum facility and repeal of section 39 of the Mental Trea…

2020-12-14 · Seanad · 7 speakers · 7,985 words
Central Mental Hospital (Relocation) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages

We had believed, however, and the then Government had believed, that there would be at least €200 million or €250 million out of the sale of Mountjoy Prison and the hospital in Dundrum to finance a state-of-the…

2020-12-14 · Seanad · 17 speakers · 16,076 words
Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage

Other measures in the Bill provide for hugely welcome increases in the carer's support grant, the living alone allowance, the fuel allowance and the working family payment threshold. We very much welcome the in…

2020-12-11 · Seanad · 18 speakers · 43,350 words 1 vote
Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage

Let us be clear; this retrospectively applied tax could push someone who did not have to pay income tax this year because he or she fell below the threshold into paying tax or could push a worker from the stand…

2020-12-10 · Dail · 5 questions · 6 speakers · 5,952 words Questions
Priority Questions · to the Minister for Justice
  • Q1 Judicial Appointments — Martin Kenny SF
  • Q2 Commemorative Events — Cathal Berry IND
  • Q3 Courts Service — Martin Kenny SF
  • Q4 Rural Crime — Carol Nolan IND
  • Q5 European Court of Justice Rulings — Martin Kenny SF
2020-12-10 · Dail · 8 questions · 11 speakers · 9,565 words Questions
Other Questions · to the Minister for Justice
  • Q6 Crime Prevention — Colm Burke FG
  • Q14 Domestic Violence — Pádraig O'Sullivan FF
  • Q8 Crime Prevention — Neale Richmond FG
  • Q9 Family Support Services — Niamh Smyth FF
  • Q11 Domestic Violence Services — Jennifer Murnane O'Connor FF
  • Q12 Prison Visiting Regulations — Éamon Ó Cuív FF
  • and 2 more
2020-12-10 · Dail · 5 questions · 9 speakers · 5,791 words Questions
Priority Questions · to the Minister for Health
  • Q77 Nursing Education — David Cullinane SF
  • Q78 Covid-19 Pandemic — Gino Kenny PBP
  • Q79 Disabilities Assessments — David Cullinane SF
  • Q80 Mental Health Services — Verona Murphy IND
  • Q81 Hospital Facilities — Catherine Connolly IND
2020-12-10 · Dail · 9 questions · 12 speakers · 7,843 words Questions
Other Questions · to the Minister for Health
  • Q82 Vaccination Programme — Bríd Smith PBP
  • Q83+ General Practitioner Services — Pádraig O'Sullivan FF
  • Q84 Disabilities Assessments — Richard Bruton FG
  • Q85+ Medicinal Products — David Cullinane SF
  • Q86 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services — Michael Moynihan FF
  • Q87 Covid-19 Pandemic — Éamon Ó Cuív FF
  • and 1 more
2020-12-10 · Dail · 6 speakers · 5,937 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

In recent days the Taoiseach has sought to pit nurses against nurses by claiming that student nurses are being exploited by other nurses on hospital wards. Could the Tánaiste respond to the student nurses who m…

2020-12-10 · Dail · 21 speakers · 4,949 words Questions
Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation

It is also not on that the HSE, the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, would treat public representatives in a way whereby until literally hours or days ago we were bei…

2020-12-10 · Dail · 12 speakers · 12,664 words
Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage

The purpose of this legislation is to allow for credit unions to hold meetings remotely that are required under the Credit Union Act. The people in the credit unions knew the families and their good healthy rel…

2020-12-10 · Dail · 4 speakers · 8,663 words
Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

Subsection (1) states: "Subject to subsection (3), a credit union may allow in its rules for any member of the credit union entitled to attend and vote at a general meeting of the credit union to be entitled to…

2020-12-10 · Dail · 13 speakers · 11,685 words
Central Mental Hospital (Relocation) Bill 2020: Second Stage

From the relocation day, references to the Central Mental Hospital or Central Mental Hospital Dundrum in any enactment, court order or other document made before the relocation day will be read as meaning the n…

2020-12-10 · Dail · 3 speakers · 426 words
Central Mental Hospital (Relocation) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages

I thank those who helped in bringing forward the legislation, including the HSE, the Mental Health Commission, the Joint Committee on Health, the Business Committee and the Whip's office, for their support in s…

2020-12-10 · Dail · 1 speaker · 327 words
Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters

Gabriel’s Special School, Cork; and (10) Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú - to discuss Louth and Meath mental health services, particularly the provision and maintenance of all aspects of care for patients during the Cov…

2020-12-10 · Dail · 3 issues · 8 speakers · 5,665 words Topical issues
Topical Issue Debate
  • Paediatric Services — Brendan Smith FF
  • Schools Building Projects — Bernard Durkan FG
  • Environmental Schemes — Dara Calleary FF
2020-12-10 · Dail · 1 speaker · 2,283 words
Prohibition of Sulky-Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members]

I am interested in working with all people to ensure that sulky racing and sulky trotting can take place safely. Sulky road racing, in which children as young as ten hitch lightweight carts to ponies or horses …

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