Dáil debates

Tuesday, 7 July 2020

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 speeches)
  This morning, the National Women's Council of Ireland and a group of parents, mostly mothers, held a demonstration outside Leinster House in support of the call for an extension to maternity...
• Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (1 speech)
  I beg leave to announce, for the information of the House that after I had informed the President that Dáil Éireann had approved my nomination of Deputies to be members of the...
• An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (76 speeches)
  The House has agreed that, for the duration of the Covid-19 emergency only, the rapporteur's report on the Order of Business shall not be read out but shall be taken as read. Therefore, in that...
• Industrial Relations (Sectoral Employment Orders Confirmation) Bill 2020: First Stage (6 speeches)
  I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to give statutory effect to recommendations of the Labour Court in relation to pay and conditions in certain sectors of the...
• Sittings and Business of the Dáil: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders-- (1) the Dáil shall meet in the Convention Centre Dublin on North Wall Quay,Dublin 1, on Wednesday, 8th July, 2020,and Thursday,...
• Amendment of Standing Order 28: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business are amended in Standing Order 28 by the substitution, in paragraph (2)(b), of ‘as many members...
• Estimates for Public Services 2020 (83 speeches)
  I move the following Revised Estimates: Vote 1— President’s Establishment (Revised Estimate) That a sum not exceeding €4,500,000 be granted to defray the charge which will...
• Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to amend the Microenterprise Loan Fund Act 2012 to increase the maximum amount of moneys that the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation may grant under that Act to...
• Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (48 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to bring forward the Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020. This is the first Bill introduced into this House by the...
• Personal Explanation by Minister (2 speeches)
  Before proceeding to Private Members' business and the Sinn Féin motion, I have been asked by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Cowen, if he may make a personal...
• Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (32 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: — the absence of any targets for the delivery of affordable rental or purchase homes in the Programme for Government; — the absence...
• 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 Éamon Ó...
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • School Accommodation (11 speeches)
    The Topical Issue matter is to not move the Firhouse Educate Together secondary school to Citywest. We are taking a collegial constituency-wide approach to this and I know the Minister of State,...
  • Special Educational Needs (4 speeches)
    I welcome the Minister to the House and congratulate her on her appointment. The summer provision programme for 2020 is hugely important because it assists, in particular, children who have...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic (4 speeches)
    I congratulate the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, on his new post and genuinely wish him every success. Particularly with a Ministry such as Health, his success will be the...
  • Nursing Home Inspections (5 speeches)
    I congratulate the Minister on his new role and wish him the very best. I mean that. As others have said, many people are really depending on him and the system needs all the support it can...