On foot of the Deputy raising this matter, I will ask both the Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, and the Minister of State with responsibility for older people, Deputy O'Donnell, to look at the figu…

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to allow the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to introduce a social housing passport in order to allow households on social h…

We see them on the extremes of politics but the vast majority of Irish people are decent and fair-minded people who want a fair, efficient and enforced system. The Bill legislates for the EU migration and asylu…

Deputies Pearse Doherty and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - To discuss the impact of the signing of the PSO contract for flights between Donegal and Dublin. Deputy James Geoghegan - To discuss emergency works at CBS We…

• Education Schemes — James Geoghegan FG
• School Admissions — Réada Cronin SF
• Cycling Facilities — Mark Wall LAB
• Air Services — Pearse Doherty SF

What is at the core of this Bill is that public procurement is decided essentially on the criterion of lowest cost only. It is a Bill that is essentially in response to the 2014 directives that determined how I…

Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee - The need for the Minister for Education and Youth to make a statement on the provision of more reading classes for children with dyslexia. Senator Fiona O'Loughlin - That need fo…

Deputy Mattie McGrath - To discuss plans by Tipperary County Council to demolish 52 partially-completed houses in Cashel, County Tipperary. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú - To discuss the provision of school accommodat…

• Housing Policy — Joe Conway IND
• Departmental Schemes — Maria Byrne FG
• Special Educational Needs — Lorraine Clifford-Lee FF
• Special Educational Needs — Fiona O'Loughlin FF

• Vacant Properties — Mattie McGrath IND
• Mental Health Services — Michael Cahill FF
• Public Sector Pensions — Joanna Byrne SF
• School Funding — Rory Hearne SD

Senator Noonan raised the issue of modern methods of construction, including industrial hemp, and called for a debate on energy poverty with the Minister, Deputy O'Brien. Senator Brady called on the Minister, D…

The OPW has responsibility for establishing flood risk management plans in Ireland and established and led the three-legged framework for flood monitoring, forecasting and warning, referred to as the national f…

Before we commence, I remind Senators that a Senator may speak only once on Report Stage, except for the proposer of the amendment, who may reply to the discussion on the amendment. Amendment No. 1 has been rul…

The Housing Agency was then asked to review the rent pressure zones, which it did, and it recommended the nature of the changes the Minister has introduced in terms of the reform of the rent pressure zones, whi…

Services provide support to pregnant women and women with a baby up to one year old, so the mental health supports are there up to age one of the baby with an existing or new mental health problem.…

The announcement by the Minister for Transport, Deputy O'Brien, regarding the Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, national roads allocation for 2026 is expected next week. The N24 in Tipperary alone, which i…

While operational police decisions, as I said, are down to the Garda Commissioner, does the Taoiseach acknowledge the concern locally that Offaly received no members of An Garda Síochána in the past two Templem…

The Bill seeks to permit a pregnant employee, or an employee already on maternity leave, to pause that leave following the death of a child. As the Senator has described, the Bill provides for an employee who i…

I move: That leave be granted to introduce Bill entitled an Act to enable the Minister for Education and Youth, by regulations, to make provision for promoting participation by a greater number of school staff …

The Operation Kenova report is the fruit of nearly a decade's work and compiles findings across Operations Kenova, Denton, Turma and Mizzenmast. What we see in Kenova is British state forces' collusion with the…