Dáil debates
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.00 a.m.
- Mental Health Surge Capacity: Motion [Private Members] (33 speeches)
I move: “That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — a mental health crisis demands an emergency response; — the World Health Organization recommends that a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (34 speeches)
I would like to raise again the issue of housing. I am very conscious that as the light at the end of the tunnel gets a little bit brighter for people, we are beginning to consider what life,...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (47 speeches)
The House has agreed that for the duration of the Covid-19 emergency only, the rapporteur's report of the Business Committee will be taken as read. Arising from it, there are just two proposals...
- Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for amendments to the Judicial Council Act 2019, to provide for the making of regulations to require insurance...
- Hospital Parking Bill 2021: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for parking free of charge for persons attending outpatient services in public hospitals; and to provide for related...
- Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move: That leave be granted to introduced a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Companies Act 2014 to provide for preferential creditor status to employees in collective redundancy situations;...
- Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2021, a copy of...
- Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2021, a copy of which has been...
- Report on UN Service by the Defence Forces: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the report by the Minister for Defence regarding service by the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2019, a copy of which was laid before...
- Report of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 118A, the recommendations of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform contained in the report entitled ‘Report of the Committee on...
- Authorisation for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to Instruct Legal Representatives: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to section 4(2)(f) (iv) of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Acts 2003 to 2018, hereby authorises the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Cabinet Committees (25 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and Investment last met; and when it next plans to meet. [13097/21]
- Shared Island Unit (19 speeches)
5. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the latest activities of the shared island unit of his Department. [16456/21]
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Order for Second Stage (5 speeches)
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (115 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." It is time for us to take action as signatories of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It is time, five years after the...
- Teachtaireacht ó Choiste - Message from Committee (1 speech)
The Standing Business Committee of Dáil Éireann has completed its consideration under Standing Order 30 of the request by the Minister for Education to waive the requirement for...
- Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (1 speech)
Seanad Éireann has passed the Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 without amendment.
- Teachtaireachta ó Roghchoiste - Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Justice has completed its consideration of the consideration of the Counterfeiting Bill 2020 and has made no amendments thereto.
- Estimates for Public Services 2021: Messages from Select Committees (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the service of the year ending on 31...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Secretaries General (7 speeches)
45. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of international applicants to the Top Level Appointments Committee for the recently vacant position of Secretary General of...
- Climate Action Plan (7 speeches)
46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department will play in ensuring that annual departmental spending proposals as part of the annual budgetary cycle are...
- Fiscal Policy (7 speeches)
47. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether there will be a return of austerity given the stability programme update forecasts that Government expenditure as a...
- Office of Public Works (9 speeches)
48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the recoupment of the €10 million overpayment of rent for the Miesian Plaza; the specific engagement that has taken...
- Public Private Partnerships (7 speeches)
49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to explain the reason the phase 1 report review of the national development plan identifies the potential for the expanded use of public...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Flood Relief Schemes (13 speeches)
50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the judicial review window has closed on the Glanmire flood relief scheme; if observations or challenges were received; when it will...
- Departmental Policy Functions (7 speeches)
51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the programme for Government commitment to introduce a more open budgetary process, less dominated by existing level of...
- EU Programmes (7 speeches)
52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the PEACE+ cross-border EU programme 2021-27; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20384/21]
- Public Sector Pay (7 speeches)
56. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department played in setting the salary level for the Secretary General of the Department of Health; if he is satisfied that...
- National Development Plan (7 speeches)
54. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the key recommendations for his Department of the recent report Supporting Excellence: Capital Project and Programme Delivery Review; and...
- Flood Relief Schemes (7 speeches)
55. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when flood defence construction works will advance in the upper River Lee area for Inchigeelagh, Ballingeary and Ballyvourney, County...
- National Development Plan (9 speeches)
57. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date by which he plans to publish the results of the review to renew the National Development Plan 2018-2027. [20539/21]