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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.

2020-10-22 · Dail · 3 speakers · 815 words
Latent Defects Redress Bill 2020: First Stage

The Bill gives the Minister power by way of regulations to put in place a latent defects redress board and a latent defects redress scheme with adequate funding.…

2020-10-22 · Dail · 3 speakers · 924 words
Residential Tenancies (Extension of Eviction Ban) Bill 2020: First Stage

At the start of this month as it became clear that we were facing a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and a second wave of restrictions, we drafted this Bill to restore the full ban on evictions and rent inc…

2020-10-22 · Dail · 14 speakers · 12,102 words
Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020 - Part 3: Motion (Resumed)

If it is a public nursing home or public hospital, that is fine, but the agreement expressly states that it is optional for a nurse or other medical person to go into a private nursing home and there is a right…

2020-10-22 · Dail · 22 speakers · 29,070 words 2 votes
Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

If we give this database and the supporting records to Tusla, it will be able to use that database to assist existing tracing services for anybody seeking information about one of the mother and baby homes from…

2020-10-22 · Seanad · 8 speakers · 4,834 words 2 votes
Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed)

This creates the new possibility of giving a limited partner the power to take part in the business of an investment partnership in a way that could challenge the distinction between a limited partner and a gen…

2020-10-22 · Seanad · 13 speakers · 11,564 words 4 votes
Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020 and Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motions

The Mental Health Commission, the independent regulator of mental health services in the State, approached the Department of Health in March of this year to raise its concerns over the need to ensure that these…

2020-10-22 · Dail · 19 speakers · 14,393 words
Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage

This Bill is about providing tenants and landlords with unambiguous certainty that their tenancies will be frozen during the emergency period. When the eviction ban was first introduced two things went together…

2020-10-22 · Dail · 11 speakers · 10,051 words 1 vote
Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages

This amendment attempts to ensure that all people living in the private rental sector, including those who do not have formally recognised tenancies under the terms of the Residential Tenancies Act, get the pro…

2020-10-22 · Dail · 1 speaker · 523 words
Estimates for Public Services 2020: Motion

I move the following Revised Estimates: Vote 28 — Foreign Affairs (Further Revised Estimate) That a sum not exceeding €225,444,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the…

2020-10-22 · Seanad · 13 speakers · 12,970 words
Electoral (Civil Society Freedom)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage

We have supported electoral reform and the electoral reform Bill.…

2020-10-21 · Dail · 32 speakers · 18,440 words
Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members]

However, on rural post offices, it only guarantees the preservation of post offices in settlements of over 500 people which could lead to closures of over two thirds of the post offices in west Cork. I want mor…

2020-10-21 · Dail · 6 speakers · 6,508 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

We need to get to a point where we have a 24-hour turnaround for testing and a 24-hour turnaround for contact tracing. This is about tracing and not about testing. I accept the testing has been scaled up, so it…

2020-10-21 · Dail · 21 speakers · 5,584 words Questions
Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation

All of them asked again and again why the Taoiseach will not get off the fence, intervene on their behalf and do the simple thing of calling in KPMG, asking them to stop behaving in this way, asking them public…

2020-10-21 · Dail · 7 questions · 8 speakers · 6,395 words Questions
Questions · to the Taoiseach
  • Q1 Cabinet Committees — Mary Lou McDonald SF
  • Q2+ Shared Island Unit — Ruairí Ó Murchú SF
  • Q7 European Council Meetings — Richard Boyd Barrett PBP
2020-10-21 · Dail · 7 speakers · 4,593 words
Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage

The EU railway safety directive of 2004 applied to all categories of railways and the provisions in chapter 5 of the directive for the investigation of accidents were transposed here in the European Union (Rail…

2020-10-21 · Dail · 34 speakers · 35,636 words
Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage

These concerns are centred on how the 30-year archiving of records, as required of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes, impacts the legitimate expectations of survivors and relatives to a…

2020-10-21 · Dail · 1 speaker · 432 words
Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters

The matters raised by Deputies Thomas Pringle, Peadar Tóibín, Jennifer Murnane O'Connor and Chris Andrews have been selected for discussion.…

2020-10-21 · Dail · 9 speakers · 8,516 words
Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed)

In every one of these cases, the personal details of the women and children who were on those records have been inputted into this database. The commission went in, copied the Tusla records and used those recor…

2020-10-21 · Dail · 4 issues · 7 speakers · 6,455 words Topical issues
Topical Issue Debate
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports — Thomas Pringle IND
  • Ambulance Service — Jennifer Murnane O'Connor FF
  • Health Screening Programmes — Peadar Tóibín AON
  • Housing Provision — Chris Andrews SF
2020-10-20 · Dail · 8 speakers · 7,143 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

Now, because the Taoiseach did not follow the public health advice, we have a six-week lockdown instead of a lockdown for four weeks. The future the Taoiseach has outlined today, what he has to offer people, is…

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