Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 November 2020

• Public Accounts Committee (0 speeches)
  AN COISTE UM CHUNTAIS PHOIBLÍ COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Dé Céadaoin, 25 Samhain 2020. Wednesday, 25 November 2020. The Committee met at 16:30 MEMBERS PRESENT: Deputy Matt...
  • Business of Committee (1 speech)
    I welcome everybody to the meeting. I note my appreciation of everybody’s efforts in attending the meeting here because the Dáil is meeting today in the convention centre at the far...
  • 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
    Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government.
    Local Government Fund
    Chapter 2 – Central Government Funding of Local Authorities. (236 speeches)
    Mr. Graham Doyle (Secretary General, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) called and examined.
• Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (0 speeches)
  Tháinig an Comhchoiste le chéile ag 09:00 The Joint Committee met at 09:00 COMHALTAÍ A BHÍ I LÁTHAIR / MEMBERS PRESENT: Teachtaí Dála / Deputies Teachtaí...
  • Implementation of Duffy Cahill Report: Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (133 speeches)
    We will now discuss the implementation of the Duffy Cahill report. The 2016 report was an expert examination of legal protections for workers with a particular focus on ways of ensuring limited...
• Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs (0 speeches)
  Tháinig an Comhchoiste le chéile ag 09:00 The Joint Committee met at 09:00 COMHALTAÍ A BHÍ I LÁTHAIR / MEMBERS PRESENT: Teachtaí Dála / Deputies Teachtaí...
  • Business of Joint Committee (1 speech)
    Apologies have been received from Deputy Harkin and Senator Chambers. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.
  • Conference on Future of Europe and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (49 speeches)
    Ar son an choiste, cuirim fáilte ollmhór roimh an Aire Stáit, Teachta Byrne. Is é seo an chéad uair a bheidh teagmháil fhoirmiúil aige leis an gcoiste. Ar son...
• Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (0 speeches)
  Tháinig an Roghchoiste le chéile ag 14:00 The Select Committee met at 14:00 COMHALTAÍ A BHÍ I LÁTHAIR / MEMBERS PRESENT: Teachtaí Dála / Deputies Teachtaí...
  • Estimates for Public Services 2020
    Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (27 speeches)
    We are in public session. Members may participate remotely in proceedings held in public only from the locations listed. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, and his officials. We...
  • Message to Dáil (1 speech)
    In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Taoiseach has completed its...
• Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community (0 speeches)
  Tháinig an Comhchoiste le chéile ag 14:00 The Joint Committee met at 14:00 COMHALTAÍ A BHÍ I LÁTHAIR / MEMBERS PRESENT: Teachtaí Dála / Deputies Teachtaí...
  • Gnó an Chomhchoiste (42 speeches)
    Tá leithscéal faighte againn ón Teachta McHugh. Tá na comhaltaí ar fad ag suí sna háiteanna ceart. Iarraim orthu cinntiú, le linn an chruinnithe, go...
  • Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: Dr. John Walsh, Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh (25 speeches)
    Tá an Dr. John Walsh, léachtóir sinsearach le Gaeilge i scoil na dteangacha, na litríochtaí agus na gcultúr, coláiste na ndán, na heolaíochtaí...
• Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection (0 speeches)
  Tháinig an Comhchoiste le chéile ag 09:00 The Joint Committee met at 09:00 COMHALTAÍ A BHÍ I LÁTHAIR / MEMBERS PRESENT: Teachtaí Dála / Deputies Teachtaí...
  • Pandemic Unemployment Payment Scheme: Department of Social Protection (47 speeches)
    I ask witnesses to turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the recording equipment. I also remind members to sanitise their desk area and seat when leaving the committee room. The...
• Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht (0 speeches)
  Tháinig an Comhchoiste le chéile ag 14:00 The Joint Committee met at 14:00 COMHALTAÍ A BHÍ I LÁTHAIR / MEMBERS PRESENT: Teachtaí Dála / Deputies Teachtaí...
  • Business of Joint Committee (1 speech)
    I am delighted to welcome our guests here and I thank our members for attending. There are two items I want to address before we move on to today's agenda. On behalf of the committee, I extend...
  • Impact of Covid-19 on Irish Dance Sector: Discussion (33 speeches)
    I would like to introduce the representatives from the Irish dancing organisations, Ms Carol Carberry and Dr. Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain. I thank them for being with us today; it is very much...
  • Impact of Covid-19 on the Arts Council: Discussion (17 speeches)
    I welcome, from the Arts Council, Professor Kevin Rafter and Ms Maureen Kennelly. The format of the meeting is that I will invite Professor Rafter to make his opening statement, which will be...
• Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport (0 speeches)
  Tháinig an Comhchoiste le chéile ag 11:30 The Joint Committee met at 11:30 COMHALTAÍ A BHÍ I LÁTHAIR / MEMBERS PRESENT: Teachtaí Dála / Deputies Teachtaí...
  • Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (324 speeches)
    No apologies have been received. This meeting is part of the committee’s continuing examination of broadband and phone connectivity and related matters. The committee is particularly...