Dáil debates

Tuesday, 22 September 2020

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 1.30 p.m.
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 speeches)
  Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Restrictions for Dublin city and county were announced on Friday, including restrictions on bars and restaurants banning indoor dining. This...
• An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (111 speeches)
  The House has previously agreed that for the duration of the Covid emergency, the rapporteur's report on the Order of Business shall not be read out but shall be taken as read. Arising from it,...
• Report of Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform on Amendments to Standing Orders relating to Committees: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, further to the recommendations (pursuant to Standing Order 118A(2)) of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform in the report of the Committee entitled...
• Appointment of Chair to Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 120(8), Deputy Joe McHugh be appointed as the Chairman of the Working Group of Committee Chairmen.”
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
  • British-Irish Co-operation (8 speeches)
    1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the UK Prime Minister. [24047/20]
  • Cabinet Committees (11 speeches)
    4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [23637/20]
  • Cabinet Committees (37 speeches)
    8. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in the development of the forthcoming plan for dealing with Covid-19. [23685/20]
• Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  
• Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (5 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce this important Bill to the House. The purpose of this legislation is to transpose the criminal justice elements...
• Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) (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...
• Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Pensions Reform (7 speeches)
    23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of plans to legislate for the State pension age increase to be deferred and remain at 66 years of age; the...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (7 speeches)
    24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be restored to the full rate for those workers in the entertainment industry. [25247/20]
  • Social Welfare Rates (7 speeches)
    25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider moving towards linking social welfare rates with the minimum essential standard of living to ensure that...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (7 speeches)
    26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to calls from the live events sector to reinstate the pandemic unemployment payment at the...
  • Fuel Poverty (9 speeches)
    27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the prevalence of energy poverty here, the increased energy costs faced by families due to...
• Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Community Employment Schemes (7 speeches)
    28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered the long-term sustainability of services provided by community employment schemes (details supplied)....
  • Rental Sector (7 speeches)
    30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out by her Department in rent supplement each month from January 2020 to date; and if she will make a...
  • Free Travel Scheme (7 speeches)
    31. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will engage with the private bus operators and the National Transport Authority with a view to applying the free-travel...
  • Public Services Card (9 speeches)
    32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the data compliance of the public services card. [25009/20]
  • Carer's Allowance (7 speeches)
    33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing discretion on the 18.5 hours per week employment exemption under the carer's allowance scheme in...
  • Carer's Allowance (9 speeches)
    34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the means threshold for the carer's allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25005/20]
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (5 speeches)
    36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects the backdated pandemic unemployment payment to be paid to all recipients who incorrectly had their pandemic...
  • Social Welfare Benefits (3 speeches)
    37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the processing of applications for various social welfare payments can be expedited; and if she will make...
• Community Safety and Fireworks: Motion [Private Members] (44 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges: — the number of Community Gardaí across the State has fallen from 1,182 in 2010 to 710 in July 2020, with a drop in Community...
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • 1970 Arms Crisis (4 speeches)
    The events that became known as the Arms Trial convulsed the politics of this island 50 years ago. Some people came to believe that certain Fianna Fáil Ministers, along with a cabal of...
  • Covid-19 Tests (6 speeches)
    Louth is under threat from the rampant infection of Covid. From the mouth of the River Boyne to the county border in Carlingford, all citizens of County Louth are concerned about Covid because...
  • Drug Treatment Programmes (4 speeches)
    I will go briefly through the sequence of this matter if the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, does not mind. On 20 August my colleague, an Teachta Gould, wrote to the Minister of State seeking...
  • Telecommunications Services (4 speeches)
    I am glad the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Ryan, is here for this Topical Issue matter. This debate on the issue I am raising has been a long time coming....
• Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - 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...
  • Electricity Generation (8 speeches)
    61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he will take to remove the barriers blocking the growth of rooftop solar panels here, including the lack of...
  • National Broadband Plan (10 speeches)
    62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans on the fast-tracking of the Nation Broadband Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25252/20]
  • North-South Interconnector (12 speeches)
    63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of undergrounding the North-South Interconnector compared to the current plan; the date on which the...
  • Renewable Energy Generation (7 speeches)
    64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to grow the number of community owned renewable energy projects in view of the recently...
• Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Electric Vehicles (7 speeches)
    65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the electric vehicle strategy, promised in the programme for Government, which will ensure that charging...
  • Electric Vehicles (7 speeches)
    66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the implementation of EV charging points nationwide since funding was announced in 2019; and if he...
  • National Broadband Plan (14 speeches)
    67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected progress that will be made with the roll-out of the national broadband plan in 2020; and if he will make a...
  • North-South Interconnector (20 speeches)
    72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the recent representations he has received on the need to underground the North-South interconnector in view of the...
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions (7 speeches)
    73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which progress is being made towards the reduction of emissions in line with EU and international targets...
  • Just Transition Commissioner (8 speeches)
    74. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he has taken to date to implement the recommendations of the report by the just transition commissioner....
  • Climate Action Plan (8 speeches)
    70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had to date with the North Atlantic Seaboard Climate Action Regional Office particularly in...
  • National Broadband Plan (5 speeches)
    79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of premises surveyed to date within the amber area, by county, as part of the national fibre network...