Dáil debates

Thursday, 7 October 2021

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9 a.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Employment Support Services (7 speeches)
    1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the tendering process for employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48968/21]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (7 speeches)
    2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the pandemic unemployment payment was paid to ineligible recipients; the way she plans to recoup this...
  • Departmental Schemes (7 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider introducing a new payment scheme for bereaved parents following the death of a child; and if she will make...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility (9 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the fuel allowance eligibility criteria will be reviewed to allow those in receipt of benefit payments such as...
  • Fuel Poverty (8 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to establishing a discretionary fund to assist households with utility costs and debt given...
• Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Employment Support Services (9 speeches)
    6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of take-up of initiatives which have been put in place to help persons get back to work given that the economy has...
  • Departmental Schemes (7 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to extend the flexibility on rent supplement for victims of domestic violence; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (7 speeches)
    8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of the fall in the number of persons in receipt of the PUP since the peak in May 2020, by county; and if she will...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 speeches)
    11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that will be available for workers when the plan to transition PUP recipients to jobseeker’s payments is...
  • Domestic Violence (7 speeches)
    13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures taken to assist domestic violence victims to access rent supplement; the number of persons accessing the payment,...
  • Community Employment Schemes (10 speeches)
    14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community employment participants over the age of 62 who have participated, on a continuous basis up to the...
  • Social Welfare Eligibility (7 speeches)
    15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans she has to reform the criteria for the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48283/21]
  • Pension Provisions (6 speeches)
    16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that couples who are in receipt of the State contributory pension and a payment...
• Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Childcare Services (7 speeches)
    95. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has prioritised the reduction of parents' childcare fees as part of his Department’s budget 2022...
  • Childcare Services (7 speeches)
    96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase funding for childcare services to make childcare services affordable for all. [49076/21]
  • Childcare Services (7 speeches)
    97. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will honour the commitment to children to double State investment in childcare by 2028; if the...
  • Childcare Services (7 speeches)
    98. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department is taking to address childcare costs in Ireland which are some of the highest childcare...
  • Rights of People with Disabilities (7 speeches)
    99. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the ways in which disabled persons are supported to partake in public life and activities such as politics and...
• Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Question No. 100 replied to with Written Answers.
  • Childcare Services (5 speeches)
    101. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans for a State-funded national childcare system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48656/21]
  • Rights of People with Disabilities (8 speeches)
    102. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of Ireland’s plans to sign the optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons...
  • Youth Services (7 speeches)
    103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he can support national youth organisations and local youth services and clubs; if there is specific...
  • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 speeches)
    104. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the implementation of the 22-point action plan following publication of the mother and baby homes...
  • Asylum Seekers (10 speeches)
    105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees accepted from Afghanistan since 1 August 2021; the status of the acceptance of refugees...
  • Direct Provision System (5 speeches)
    109. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress regarding the implementation of the White Paper to end direct provision; and if he will make a...
  • Childcare Services (7 speeches)
    110. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to improve the pay and conditions of professionals in the childcare sector. [47519/21]
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 speeches)
  Roimh tús an ghnó seo, ba mhaith liom cúpla focal a rá faoi Tom Burke. Is cinnte gur chuala formhór na dTeachtaí Dála gur chuaigh Tom Burke ar shlí na...
• Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (50 speeches)
  I would not like to break the almost perfect record we have had in co-operation.
• Organisation of Working Time (Workers' Rights and Bogus Self-Employment) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 to prohibit the practice of designating employment as self-employment; to...
• Recovery of Tourism and Aviation: Statements (36 speeches)
  Tá áthas orm labhairt leis na Teachtaí, maraon leis an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Naughton, faoi théarnamh ár n-éarnálacha turasóireachta agus...
• Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (1 speech)
  I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Alan Farrell - to...
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Defective Building Materials (5 speeches)
    The first important matter has been submitted by Deputy Joe McHugh, who wishes to discuss the devastating impact of the mica housing crisis on a particular family, details supplied, which I...
  • Road Projects (17 speeches)
    I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to deal with this important issue, with which she is very familiar. I do not want anything I will say to in any way pre-empt or be seen to...
  • Thalidomide Victims Compensation (5 speeches)
    The third matter comes from Deputy Andrews, who also wants to deal with a very important matter, a matter which unfortunately affects an ever-declining number of people. He wishes to discuss a...
  • Fishing Industry (5 speeches)
    I would like discuss the unsustainable mussel dredging on Irish coasts and the operation of SI 461/2021. I am raising this matter because it is something about which I have a particular concern....
• Broadcasting (Amendment) (Protection of Journalism) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."