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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.
The Dáil will have to agree in the next year or two at the latest, as part of drafting the new national energy and climate action plan, which is our contribution to meeting the Paris climate agreement, a land u…
These are people who are not eligible for the housing assistance payment, HAP, rent supplement or the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. I urge anyone who is watching and who is in difficulty with rent arrears o…
It is proposed in regard to tomorrow's business that the Dáil shall sit later than 8.03 p.m. and shall adjourn on the conclusion of the debate on the Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2020; the sitting shall be suspen…
I take the opportunity to commend the four taxi representative groups which organised the protest, namely, the Taxi Alliance of Ireland, the National Private Hire and Taxi Association, the Irish Taxi Drivers Fe…
The National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, advice came in advance of the plan for Dublin and we felt it was better to implement that advice right now. Swabbing and testing is essential, as the Taoiseach …
There are protocols there and the Mental Health Commission, which I established way back as Minister for Health, is there to provide oversight in terms of best practice and what is good and not so good in our m…
I am very proud to introduce the Animal Health and Welfare (Ban on Hare Coursing) Bill 2020. This is a Bill to ban hare coursing. During the first debate on banning hare coursing in this House, former Deputy Tr…
Daft.ie became flush with pictures of homes that were dressed in pretty towels and other accoutrements for the short-term let sector, but which were now in the long-term let sector.…
The matters raised by Deputies Paul Murphy, Dessie Ellis, Marc MacSharry and Christopher O'Sullivan have been selected for discussion.…
We can see what has happened to the Clerys workers and now the scandalous situation regarding the Debenhams workers. I will not rehearse the despicable treatment of more than 1,000 Debenhams workers by Debenham…
Instead of engaging meaningfully with affected sectors and working to protect the jobs, livelihoods and businesses, the main supports for those affected, the pandemic unemployment payment and the temporary wage…
In light of this, the Government has introduced a series of critical expenditure measures designed to support incomes, employers, jobs and the wider economy from the unprecedented shock of Covid-19 and, of cour…
It is very telling that, in today's plan that the Taoiseach has issued, of 59 pages, just one of them addresses the issue of testing and tracing - the most central part of the plan and the Taoiseach has failed.…
As the Taoiseach knows, Drogheda is the largest town in Ireland but we are left without a Covid testing centre. Will the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health direct the HSE to examine the possibility of using …
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision for assistance in achieving a dignified and peaceful end of life to qualifying persons and related matters. If enacted, this B…
The worst aspect of this market is the poverty it is engendering across the 130,000 beef farmers in the country. It was extraordinary to have beef barons level injunctions at farmers who are in poverty. The eye…
mica redress |
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"mica redress" |
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