Dáil debates
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.30 a.m.
- Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (2 speeches)
Debate resumed on the following Financial Resolution: - (Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government)
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Public Services Card (7 speeches)
40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the public services card and the findings of the Data Protection Commissioner on same; if enforcement...
- Departmental Staff (9 speeches)
41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of her plans to implement a new front office-back office model in Intreo offices; the effect the changes will have...
- Fuel Allowance Data (7 speeches)
42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which her Department has calculated that an increase in the fuel allowance as announced in budget 2020 will...
- Carer's Allowance Eligibility (28 speeches)
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that by increasing the hours carers can work outside the home and not increasing...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Carer's Allowance Eligibility (6 speeches)
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the means test qualifying criteria for carer’s allowance to include such costs as rent, mortgage...
- JobPath Data (6 speeches)
46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of jobseekers who have entered the JobPath programme since its commencement; the number who faced sanctions from...
- Back to Work Allowance Data (8 speeches)
47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the uptake of the back to work enterprise allowance in County Kildare in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the supports...
- Social Insurance (15 speeches)
48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if insurance contributions will be credited to farmers for pension purposes for the time they were in receipt of farm assist;...
- Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (8 speeches)
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efforts being made to speed up the processing of applications for carer's allowance and benefit, disability allowance and...
- Carer's Allowance Eligibility (6 speeches)
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the impact on the income disregard for carer's allowance was given consideration in view of the increase in the hours...
- Fuel Allowance Data (7 speeches)
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of the levels of energy poverty in the general population will be commenced; the number of applicants for the fuel...
- State Pension (Contributory) (10 speeches)
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the new total contribution system will come into force for new applicants for the State pension (contributory); the date...
- National Minimum Wage (3 speeches)
53. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the suggested 30 cent increase in the national minimum wage will be implemented following a deal on Brexit, her plans to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (38 speeches)
News is breaking of the most unimaginable tragedy in Essex where 38 adults and one teenager have been found dead in a container that entered the United Kingdom through Holyhead. It is an...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (107 speeches)
I return to the water issue. I ask the Minister to revisit the decision not to provide tankers. Some 600,000 people are affected, including many low-income families and elderly people. These...
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 speeches)
It is proposed that, pursuant to the Order of Business of yesterday, the House shall sit at 9 a.m. tomorrow to resume Second Stage of No.12, Finance Bill 2019, if not previously concluded, and...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with EU leaders and others when he attended the UN meeting in New York; and if the backstop was discussed. [39633/19]
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 speeches)
8. To ask the Taoiseach the conversations he has had with the UK Prime Minister since 8 October 2019; and if he subsequently met him, the issues that were discussed. [41956/19]
- European Council Meetings (34 speeches)
18. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Mr. Donald Tusk recently. [41939/19]
- 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 Dessie Ellis - to...
- Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (36 speeches)
At the outset, I congratulate Deputy Haughey on his recent promotion.
- Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs has completed its consideration of the Childcare (Amendment) Bill 2019 and made amendments thereto.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Job Losses (9 speeches)
The first issue selected is in the names of Deputies Carey and Quinlivan who wish to discuss job losses recently announced at Molex in Shannon, with the company due to close.
- Job Losses (8 speeches)
Three hundred and twenty jobs were axed at Novartis in Ringaskiddy, Cork, this morning when the workers were called in. Many of those workers rely on the wage packet to pay their mortgage. Many...
- Primary Care Centres Provision (11 speeches)
Deputy Ellis wishes to discuss the proposed developments at the site of the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas. We do not often get to discuss church-related matters.
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision (4 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to raise this important Topical Issue debate relating to the Offaly school of special education based in Kilcruttin, Tullamore, which has capacity for 36 children. The...
- Public Ownership of the National Broadband Network: Motion [Private Members] (52 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: —notes the Report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment entitled ‘Report on an investigation...
- Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (1 speech)
Seanad Éireann has passed the Family Law Bill 2019 without amendment.
- Finance Bill 2019: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
- Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (36 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Two weeks ago, I made my Budget Statement and outlined the many challenges that our economy had gone through. Despite those challenges and...
