Dáil debates

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
• Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Éireann has passed the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2022 without amendment.
• Estimate for Public Services 2022: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Environment and Climate Action has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31...
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (66 speeches)
  Last month, President Michael D. Higgins described the housing crisis as a disaster. I believe that he gave voice to the hard realities faced by those desperately struggling to put an affordable...
• An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (94 speeches)
  I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion re Supplementary Estimate for Public Services [Vote 29] (back from Committee) (without debate) - Motion re Sixteenth Report of the Committee of...
• Estimates for Public Services 2022 (1 speech)
  I move the following Supplementary Estimate: Vote 29 - Office of the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications (Second Supplementary Estimate) That a second supplementary sum not...
• Report of Committee of Selection: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the Sixteenth Report of the Standing Committee of Selection in accordance with Standing Order 34, copies of which were laid before Dáil...
• Orders of Reference of Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach shall have the power to send for persons, papers and records included in its Orders of Reference for...
• Membership of Joint Committee on Standing Orders (Private Business): Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 5 of the Standing Orders of the Dáil and Seanad relative to Private Business, the following members be appointed to be members of the Joint...
• Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands: Motion (4 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann, in accordance with Article 15.1.3° of the Constitution, hereby determines that the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
  • Departmental Functions (29 speeches)
    1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic policy unit of his Department. [24326/22]
  • Commissions of Investigation (14 speeches)
    15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the investigation being carried out by the Secretary General of his Department into the leaking of details of the mother and baby homes commission of...
  • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 speeches)
    18. To ask the Taoiseach his views on his recent engagements at the World Economic Forum. [27389/22]
• Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Éireann has passed the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2022 without amendment.
• Estimates for Public Services 2022: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Environment and Climate Action has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for public services for the service of the year ending 31 December...
• Confidence in Government: Motion (307 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann reaffirms its confidence in the Government. I welcome the opportunity to move the motion that Dáil Éireann has confidence in the Government and...
• Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (9 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area...
• Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space: Motion (13 speeches)
  Despite the title of the motion, it is not 1 April.
• Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (92 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Green Party Government has been in Office for two years; — during this time rents have...
• Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Health Services Staff (9 speeches)
    81. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the pandemic bonus payment and special leave with pay for frontline healthcare workers with long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Cannabis for Medicinal Use (7 speeches)
    82. To ask the Minister for Health if he acknowledges that the medical cannabis access programme, MCAP, is not fulfilling its potential given that only 12 persons have been registered on the...
  • Emergency Departments (9 speeches)
    83. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to tackle the crisis in emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37352/22]
  • Dental Services (16 speeches)
    84. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that his Department is making to provide emergency dental cover for adult medical card holders who are unable to access a dental service due to...
  • Health Services Staff (8 speeches)
    85. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns that an estimated 21% of persons with Parkinson’s disease reported having had access to a Parkinson’s disease nurse...
• Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Health Services Staff (7 speeches)
    86. To ask the Minister for Health if an international recruitment campaign for healthcare professionals, including therapists, is under way in the context of employment with the HSE; and if he...
  • Medical Cards (7 speeches)
    87. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to review the medical card assessment process for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37502/22]
  • Health Services Staff (8 speeches)
    88. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he has taken to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is granted the pay parity with their laboratory colleagues that they have been...
  • Health Services Staff (7 speeches)
    90. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that all positions within the children's disability network teams, CDNTS, are filled and that there are no staffing gaps. [37487/22]
  • Emergency Departments (9 speeches)
    91. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the future of the 24-hour status of the accident and emergency unit in Portlaoise hospital given the situation regarding Navan...
  • Disability Services (8 speeches)
    96. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to the recruitment of additional therapy assistants in the delivery of healthcare services; if therapy assistants will have a...