Dáil debates
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 speech)
Before we take Leaders' Questions, I would like to address the recent controversy regarding voting in the Dáil. These revelations are very grave and go to the heart of the credibility of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (67 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his statement, with which I agree. On Leaders Questions on 1 October I raised with the Taoiseach concerns about the escalating costs at the national children's...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (34 speeches)
The business this week shall be as set out in the first revised report of the Business Committee, dated 22 October 2019. In relation to today's business, it is proposed that the Dáil shall...
- Acknowledgement and Apology to Women and Families affected by CervicalCheck Debacle: Statements (14 speeches)
As Taoiseach, on behalf of the State, I apologise to the women and their loved ones who suffered from a litany of failures in how cervical screening in the country operated for many years. I do...
- An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (76 speeches)
I asked about the commitments made in terms of the €1 million fund to assist couples undergoing in vitro fertilisation, IVF, in 2017. Many couples who are in very straitened financial...
- 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 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Mary Butler - to discuss...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) (First-Time Buyers) Bill 2019: First Stage (6 speeches)
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to provide for a specific percentage of lands in a private development to be...
- Latent Defects Redress Bill 2019: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to establish a Latent Defects Redress Board, the functions of which shall be,inter alia, to provide resolution to ordinary...
- Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice and Equality pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Northern Ireland (24 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met the UUP or Alliance Party leaders recently. [39949/19]
- Citizens Assembly (18 speeches)
4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress towards a Citizens' Assembly on a directly elected mayor for Dublin. [41985/19]
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 speeches)
8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the UN; if he held bilaterals; and the issues discussed. [39631/19]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Childcare Services Inspections (7 speeches)
52. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether it is satisfactory that parents are not informed when a crèche is placed at the critical level by Tusla; and her...
- Foster Care Provision (7 speeches)
53. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps taken to rectify the state of understaffing and lack of professional oversight in the social care system for children in County...
- Childcare Services Provision (9 speeches)
54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the national childcare scheme will be fully operational and open to all parents. [43573/19]
- Climate Change Policy (7 speeches)
56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure the political views expressed by thousands of young persons in recent months who have marched and...
- Child and Family Agency (7 speeches)
55. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has met with a group (details supplied); if she has received a report compiled by the organisation; and if she will make a statement...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Childcare Services Administration (13 speeches)
57. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the childcare subvention schemes that were operational prior to the national childcare scheme will continue to accept new applicants; and...
- Child and Family Agency Staff (9 speeches)
58. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the quality control procedures in place in Tusla; the type of performance management and upskilling which takes place for persons working...
- Children in Care (7 speeches)
59. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the locations of voluntary residential services situated in the strategic plan for residential care services for children under State care....
- School Completion Programme (7 speeches)
60. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the promised review of the school completion programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43273/19]
- Child and Family Agency Staff (11 speeches)
61. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure that children using Tusla services will have the benefit of a long-term social worker; and if she will...
- Childcare Services Funding (6 speeches)
62. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for delays in Pobal payments or shortfalls in payments to early years service providers since August 2019; the reason there has...
- Childcare Services Administration (5 speeches)
63. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1665 of 6 September 2019, the way in which the national childcare scheme can address the further...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- CLÁR programme (11 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this matter. The last allocation of CLÁR funding has been a serious disappointment in County Cork. I will go through the figures....
- National Drugs Strategy Budget (6 speeches)
I wish to highlight the community sector's experience of the past two years of the new national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery - A health-led response to drug and alcohol use...
- Public Services Card (4 speeches)
In very many cases, persons who do not currently possess or cannot obtain a driver's licence or a passport offer their public services card, PSC, by way of identification. Credit unions have...
- Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (13 speeches)
I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this important matter. I thank the Minister for taking it herself. Knowing the type of pragmatic Minister she is, I believe she will have no...
- Developments in Spain: Statements (11 speeches)
The Government follows closely developments in Spain, which is an important EU partner and friend of Ireland. I know some Members of this House have visited Catalonia and their perspectives...
- Child Maintenance: Motion (28 speeches)
I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes that:— there are 218,817 lone parent families living in the State (Census 2016); — Ireland’s level of lone parent families is...
