Dáil debates
Tuesday, 8 September 2020
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (49 speeches)
This morning, the striking Debenhams workers occupied stores in Dublin and Cork. They did so after more than 150 days of campaigning for fair treatment from the company that has treated them in...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (90 speeches)
The House has agreed that, for the duration of the Covid-19 emergency only, the rapporteur's report of the Order of Business shall not be read out but shall be taken as read. There are three...
- Report of Committee of Selection: Motion (5 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: (a) approves the First Report of the Standing Committee of Selection in accordance with Standing Order 34, copies of which were laid before Dáil...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Departmental Policy Functions (9 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the work of the international division of his Department. [18477/20]
- Departmental Functions (21 speeches)
3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the protocol and general division of his Department. [18557/20]
- Legislative Programme (25 speeches)
4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for legislation from his Department. [18558/20]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
Note: Ministerial and Departmental titles have been updated in the Question text in anticipation of the relevant Government orders to give legal effect to the Taoiseach’s announcement in...
- School Attendance (7 speeches)
22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if schools will still be required to submit biannual student absence reports to Tusla for student absenteeism over the 20-day limit; and if...
- Covid-19 Tests (9 speeches)
23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to recent reports that delays in Covid-19 testing is having an impact on the ability of childcare providers...
- Early Years Sector (7 speeches)
24. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if clarity will be provided on the overage exemption for the ECCE programme; and the reason there is such a high level of refusals for this...
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 speeches)
25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps in the process to exhume the bodies at the mother and baby home site in Tuam, County Galway. [21152/20]
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 speeches)
26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the final report of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation will be published in view of the fact the crucial report for...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- School Attendance (9 speeches)
27. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to provide alternatives to prosecution for parents who fail to ensure their children attend school; and if he will make a...
- After-School Support Services (9 speeches)
28. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to increase the range of after-school services in schools and community hubs in County Cork. [22362/20]
- Early Childhood Care and Education (7 speeches)
30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the policy he has to promote all Irish language and bilingual crèches in and outside the Gaeltacht to ensure all parents have a choice...
- Direct Provision System (10 speeches)
31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the preparatory work that has taken place with respect to responsibility for direct provision transferring under his remit. [22370/20]
- Childcare Services (7 speeches)
33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports afforded to childcare facilities to enable them to remain open and viable in view of the fact that in the first six months of...
- Special Educational Needs (7 speeches)
34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to re-engage students with education including students with special educational needs and other vulnerable...
- Departmental Funding (11 speeches)
36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the budget for the new sustainability fund of his Department; the breakdown of funds spent to date from same; the funds that have been...
- Departmental Reports (7 speeches)
38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Crowe Report will be published. [22325/20]
- Childcare Services (6 speeches)
39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to put in place measures to ensure childcare providers servicing disadvantaged areas will not be forced into closure when...
- 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 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Neale Richmond - to...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Proposed Legislation (5 speeches)
I welcome Deputy Richmond, who wishes to discuss the status of hate crime legislation as committed to in the programme for Government, and the Minister of State at the Department of Justice and...
- Brexit Negotiations (8 speeches)
The Financial Timesreported yesterday that the British Government intended to introduce legislation that would have the effect of not only undermining but breaking the withdrawal agreement...
- Fishing Industry (4 speeches)
Fishers all around our coast were shocked and outraged when they learned that the Taoiseach had signed off on the statutory instrument introducing regulations containing a penalty point system....
- School Transport (11 speeches)
I thank the Minister for coming into the Chamber to take this Topical Issue matter. As the Minister is aware, there are two types of people who benefit from bus transport. There are those who...
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (26 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to present this Bill to the House. As Deputies may be aware, the Bill was published earlier this year but it was not possible...
- Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (39 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — this State has the third highest rate of cancer in the world with more than 43,000 cancers diagnosed on an annual basis; —...
