One cannot send thousands of people back to work without an answer to their childcare needs. Will the Taoiseach go back and bring forward a real plan, that is, one that in real terms allows childcare providers …

As always, our decision was informed by the data on the status of the Covid-19 disease in our country and by the public health advice that we received from the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET. I ha…

We will base our approach on two scenarios: first a limited free trade agreement, FTA, in goods, with an accompanying fisheries agreement and second a hard Brexit, in which there is essentially no EU-UK trade d…

The pitches of many clubs, including football and hurling clubs but also other clubs involved in such outdoor sports, have quite big perimeters. My constituency of Dublin North-West has a great number of clubs …

There is much talk about a 6% or 7% reduction in carbon emissions targets. One of the positive benefits has been the reduction in greenhouse emissions and their impact on climate change.…

Is the Minister categorically saying that the summer provision scheme, which is to replace the July provision scheme this year, is not only going to be awarded to children who currently attend special schools? …

We need an EU-wide methane cap for agriculture that supports carbon efficient beef production in Ireland, which is good for reducing global climate emissions, and grass-fed beef on low-intensity grassland such …

Racism is, as the Taoiseach said, a virus, and it is a global one. Reports this morning that the Government is preparing to cut the pandemic unemployment payment for thousands of workers have come as a signific…

School principals, teachers and SNAs have already done so much since schools closed to help support their students, particularly those with special educational needs and children from disadvantaged backgrounds.…

We learned from the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response last Tuesday that the HSE, the Department of Health and the Minister for Health had no proper plan for protection in place in nursing homes, despite kn…

The Garda diversity and integration strategy, which was published last year, commits to the identification of barriers to recruiting and retaining people from diverse and minority backgrounds as Garda members, …

The collective response of the defence organisation involves personnel of the Permanent Defence Force, members of the Reserve, Civil Defence volunteers, civil servants and civilian employees within my Departmen…

As Minister for Rural and Community Development, what has Deputy Ring done to advance these two actions and what can he commit to do in the future under the rural Ireland and community development remit to ensu…

Does he have any figures on how many passport applications are awaiting processing, and will additional resources be given to the passport service to deal with the inevitable backlog of passport applications? F…

There are 100 Aer Lingus staff based out of Shannon Airport, so that needs to be done. The new all-party Oireachtas Shannon Airport group has called on Aer Lingus to make a long-term commitment to Shannon Airpo…

The Estimate operates on the basis that all of the Covid emergency payments, including the two main ones, the pandemic unemployment payment and the wage subsidy scheme, will come to an end at some time in early…

Has the Minister considered extending maternity leave as well as making people who are on maternity leave eligible for the Covid payment?…

We cannot support the Order of Business unless we get a guarantee from Government that the Estimates will be published today as soon as possible and that there is a clear verbal briefing for the Opposition. All…

It will have to come to an end at some point and it would not be right to create different classes of unemployed people, with people unemployed before Covid getting one set of benefits, people made unemployed d…

It began before there was guidance in place for the testing of those patients, before there was guidance in place for nursing homes on how to care for those patients, and before nursing homes had the PPE needed…