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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.

2025-06-12 · Dail · 22 questions · 8 speakers · 11,407 words Questions
Other Questions · to the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence
  • Q6 Naval Service — John Connolly FF
  • Q7 Defence Forces — Seán Crowe SF
  • Q8+ Military Neutrality — Catherine Connolly IND
  • Q10+ Defence Forces — Duncan Smith LAB
  • Q11+ Air Corps — Duncan Smith LAB
  • Q13 National Security — Naoise Ó Cearúil FF
  • and 1 more
2025-06-12 · Seanad · 10 speakers · 4,871 words
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Of course there is a need for a public swimming pool because at the end of the day, we do not have a publicly funded and owned swimming pool in south Galway. Any town in Ireland the size of Loughrea, whose popu…

2025-06-12 · Seanad · 11 speakers · 11,716 words
Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements

I thank principals, teachers, including special education teachers, and SNAs for the huge amount of work they do and support they provide day in, day out in our mainstream classes, special classes and special s…

2025-06-12 · Dail · 4 questions · 6 speakers · 6,802 words Questions
Priority Questions · to the Minister for Education and Youth
  • Q85 Special Educational Needs — Darren O'Rourke SF
  • Q86 State Examinations — Eoghan Kenny LAB
  • Q87 School Curriculum — Darren O'Rourke SF
  • Q88 Special Educational Needs — Jen Cummins SD
2025-06-12 · Dail · 8 questions · 11 speakers · 8,547 words Questions
Other Questions · to the Minister for Education and Youth
  • Q91 Schools Building Projects — Catherine Connolly IND
  • Q93 Special Educational Needs — Albert Dolan FF
  • Q94 School Admissions — Ruairí Ó Murchú SF
  • Q95 School Accommodation — Mark Ward SF
  • Q96 Education Schemes — Donna McGettigan SF
  • Q97 Early School Leavers — John Clendennen FG
  • and 2 more
2025-06-12 · Dail · 9 speakers · 7,173 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

We will expand the rent pressure zones and Sinn Féin needs to work out why it wants to bring in reference rents and push up rents and why it wanted to abolish the rent pressure zones. The Tánaiste was the Minis…

2025-06-12 · Dail · 4 speakers · 1,236 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions

Some schools may still want to purchase phone pouches. Guidance will soon be provided by circular to all schools on putting in place policies to ensure schools are mobile phone-free zones during the school day …

2025-06-12 · Dail · 20 speakers · 6,007 words Questions
Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation

The Minister, Deputy Jim O'Callaghan, supported by the Taoiseach, recently announced that a new prison will go alongside the prison that was opened in 2016. No Minister for justice wants to receive reports noti…

2025-06-12 · Dail · 15 speakers · 17,094 words
Fisheries: Statements

It is important to note that fishing opportunities are allocated among member states in such a way as to ensure relative stability of fishing activities of each member state to catch fish stocks or fishery. I w…

2025-06-12 · Dail · 17 speakers · 18,564 words
Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements

Care should have been provided in the nursing home and the supports need to be given to the nursing homes so that they can provide that care. As a result, we have the privatisation of nursing home care and peop…

2025-06-12 · Dail · 4 issues · 5 speakers · 7,468 words Topical issues
Topical Issue Debate
  • Schools Refurbishment — Roderic O'Gorman GP
  • School Transport — Mark Wall LAB
  • Special Educational Needs — Jennifer Whitmore SD
  • Energy Infrastructure — Mairéad Farrell SF
2025-06-12 · Dail · 9 speakers · 12,639 words
Criminal Law (Prohibition of the Disclosure of Counselling Records) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members]

The Criminal Law (Prohibition of the Disclosure of Counselling Records) Bill 2025 aims to delete subsection 19A of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992 and replace it with measures providing that the content of couns…

2025-06-11 · Seanad · 1 speaker · 355 words
Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad

I have received notice from the following Senators that they propose to raise the following matters: Senator Garret Ahearn - The need for the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to make a statement o…

2025-06-11 · Dail · 1 speaker · 410 words
Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters

Deputy John Brady - To discuss secondary school provision in Greystones and Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú - To discuss the lack of provision of isotope-dependent PET-CT scans. Depu…

2025-06-11 · Seanad · 4 matters · 6 speakers · 5,964 words Commencement matters
Commencement Matters
  • Sports Funding — Garret Ahearn FG
  • Social Welfare Eligibility — Eileen Lynch FG
  • Military Aircraft — Chris Andrews SF
  • School Transport — Fiona O'Loughlin FF
2025-06-11 · Dail · 5 issues · 11 speakers · 9,181 words Topical issues
Topical Issue Debate
  • School Accommodation — Joanna Byrne SF
  • Health Services — Ruairí Ó Murchú SF
  • Water Services — Naoise Ó Cearúil FF
  • Aviation Industry — Gary Gannon SD
  • Disability Services — James Geoghegan FG
2025-06-11 · Seanad · 14 speakers · 5,499 words
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Senator O'Reilly raised the fact that Wellman International in County Cavan has gone into examinership, 240 people are unemployed and there may be a possibility of an alternative buyer.…

2025-06-11 · Dail · 33 speakers · 20,454 words
Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members]

By facilitating the sale of these Israeli bonds, and by Government inaction to stop the Central Bank from facilitating the sale of Israeli bonds, all Irish people are made complicit in the actions of Israel. Wh…

2025-06-11 · Seanad · 12 speakers · 11,520 words
Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage

In introducing the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024 before this House, I am very conscious of the enormous trauma that has been endured by survivors of all abuse.…

2025-06-11 · Dail · 18 speakers · 6,069 words Questions
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

Can the Taoiseach tell us how many renters will be hit by massive rent increases from 1 March under the Government's plan? When they end a tenancy, they are going to be in this new system where, effectively, th…

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