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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.

2025-12-10 · Dail · 5 speakers · 7,270 words
Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2025 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

To my mind, however, it very much is, or should be, part of the Act this Bill is amending to make the grants and loans the Irish Film Board gives out for film productions far more strictly conditional on the fi…

2025-12-10 · Dail · 10 speakers · 5,849 words 1 vote
Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (Amendment) Bill 2025: Instruction to Committee

Section 34 amends section 8, enforcement notice, of the Building Control Acts to provide a building control authority with the power to require the owner or occupier of a building, or any person responsible for…

2025-12-10 · Dail · 16 speakers · 30,194 words 6 votes
Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages

In amendment No. 6, we are asking for the end-to-end remediation scheme for all those impacted by defective concrete blocks. In amendment No. 7, we have put forward an amendment dealing with the fact that what …

2025-12-10 · Seanad · 18 speakers · 12,642 words
Local Government (Support for Elected Members) Bill 2024: Second Stage

Not only do they do their own jobs as councillors for their communities within local authorities, but they take on additional roles within LAMA to champion all councillors. We who were councillors and proud to …

2025-12-10 · Seanad · 12 speakers · 3,110 words 2 votes
Local Government (Support for Elected Members) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed)

I acknowledge the presence of Councillor Joe Malone, who does Trojan work and advocacy for local councillors. Legends is what I would call these councillors.…

2025-12-10 · Seanad · 9 speakers · 7,402 words
Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage

There is a €5 increase in the fuel allowance, which goes from €33 to €38 from January 2026, and the expansion of the fuel allowance to 50,000 families in receipt of the working family payment. From January, as …

2025-12-09 · Dail · 11 speakers · 6,323 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

Similarly, when it comes to housing supply, we have stood up to the needs in terms of the provision of social housing in our economy. The Minister, Deputy Browne, has taken a number of interventions over the la…

2025-12-09 · Seanad · 1 speaker · 348 words
Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad

I have received notice from the following Senators that they propose to raise the following matters: Senator Alison Comyn - The need for the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on the new scho…

2025-12-09 · Dail · 25 speakers · 6,276 words 1 vote
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion re Excess Vote relating to 2024 [Vote 14] (without debate) - Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025 (Second Stage) (to conclude within 3 hours and 34 minutes) Tuesday's …

2025-12-09 · Seanad · 4 matters · 7 speakers · 6,661 words Commencement matters
Commencement Matters
  • School Accommodation — Alison Comyn FF
  • Taxi Regulations — Gerard P. Craughwell IND
  • Departmental Bodies — Victor Boyhan IND
  • Departmental Schemes — Gareth Scahill FG
2025-12-09 · Dail · 3 speakers · 926 words
Civil Liability (Child Sexual Abuse Proceedings Against Unincorporated Bodies of Persons) Bill 2025: First Stage

I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to facilitate the bringing of child sexual abuse proceedings against unincorporated bodies of persons, to enable such a body to pay damages aris…

2025-12-09 · Seanad · 27 speakers · 10,037 words
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

They also acknowledged the issue of water quality, as did Senator Noonan, and that there are still challenges to do with water quality. Senator Noonan spoke about water quality and called for the Minister to co…

2025-12-09 · Dail · 24 speakers · 22,387 words
Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage

This paves the way not only for investor courts, or the parallel justice system for corporations only, as part of CETA but also for private investor courts as part of every current and future trade agreement th…

2025-12-09 · Seanad · 8 speakers · 4,856 words 5 votes
Finance Bill 2025 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee Stage

It is important to recognise that if, as a country, we are to get to grips with the housing crisis, we must ensure we have privately built houses that are available to first-time buyers, people who are downsizi…

2025-12-09 · Dail · 36 speakers · 19,375 words
Assessment of Needs: Motion [Private Members]

There are 291 children in the county waiting for an assessment of need. This Government is presiding over more than 18,000 children waiting for more than six months for an assessment of need. The Government is …

2025-12-09 · Dail · 5 questions · 6 speakers · 6,289 words Questions
Priority Questions · to the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance
  • Q1 Inflation Rate — Pearse Doherty SF
  • Q2 Derelict Sites — Ged Nash LAB
  • Q3 Tax Code — Pearse Doherty SF
  • Q4 Tax Code — Roderic O'Gorman GP
  • Q6 Tax Reliefs — Shay Brennan FF
2025-12-09 · Dail · 8 questions · 11 speakers · 10,881 words Questions
Other Questions · to the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance
  • Q7 Trade Relations — Tony McCormack FF
  • Q8+ Tax Code — Rose Conway-Walsh SF
  • Q9 Derelict Sites — Thomas Gould SF
  • Q10 Urban Development — Paula Butterly FG
  • Q11 Tax Reliefs — Joe Neville FG
  • Q13 Fiscal Policy — Naoise Ó Cearúil FF
  • and 1 more
2025-12-09 · Dail · 1 speaker · 302 words
Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters

Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn - To discuss the new school project in St. Deputy Pa Daly - To discuss the Bryan MacMahon Hall at Scoil Réalt na Maidine, Listowel. The matters raised by Deputies Sean Fleming, Naoi…

2025-12-09 · Dail · 5 issues · 8 speakers · 9,391 words Topical issues
Topical Issue Debate
  • Mental Health Services — Sean Fleming FF
  • Eating Disorders — Naoise Ó Muirí FG
  • Hospital Overcrowding — Aidan Farrelly SD
  • School Facilities — Pádraig Mac Lochlainn SF
  • Energy Infrastructure — Aindrias Moynihan FF
2025-12-09 · Seanad · 7 speakers · 1,712 words 2 votes
Finance Bill 2025 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee Stage (Resumed)

It simply seeks that within six months of the passing of this Bill, the Minister shall prepare and lay before Seanad Éireann a report on the fiscal and housing market effects of tax reliefs and incentives avail…

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