Dáil debates

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 speeches)
  The Green Party has long campaigned for affordable homes. It promised to invest in large-scale affordable housing developments and reuse vacant stock for affordable homes, thereby revitalising...
• Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Éireann has passed the Loan Guarantee Schemes Agreements (Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland) Bill 2021 without amendment, and has passed the Planning and Development, Heritage...
• Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Change of Membership (1 speech)
  I wish to announce for the information of the House that Deputy Cian O'Callaghan has been nominated to the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform in substitution for Deputy Holly Cairns.
• An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (67 speeches)
  The House has agreed that for the duration of the Covid emergency only, the rapporteur's report of the Business Committee shall be taken as read. Arising from it, therefore, there are three...
• North-South Interconnector Review Group Bill 2021: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to establish a review group to examine the route of the electricity interconnection between the State and Northern Ireland of...
• Regulation of Tenderers Bill 2021: First Stage (6 speeches)
  I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide that abnormally low tender bids for construction works with a contract equal to or above the EU threshold for public...
• International Travel and Aviation: Statements (42 speeches)
  The Minister of State and I thank the House for allowing us this opportunity to address the matter of international travel and aviation. The impact of the Covid 19 pandemic, coupled with the...
• Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (30 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: — notes that recent weeks have seen the most serious escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory (i.e. the West Bank,...
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Departmental Policies (7 speeches)
    1. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the timeline for the roll-out of the Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 strategy as promised; and if she will make a...
  • Departmental Policies (7 speeches)
    2. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which the €5 million fund to support the development of Ireland’s first national network of remote working hubs...
  • Rural Schemes (7 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the specific measures in place to address the issue of vacant and derelict buildings in rural towns and villages; the financial supports...
  • Departmental Programmes (7 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when SICAP funding will be increased to its 2008 level at €84 million given that current funding is at 50% of this amount. [28312/21]
• Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (1 speech)
  We are moving on to the other questions. I do not see the Deputies. If I am missing somebody, he or she can shout at me. Moving back to Deputy Donnelly, the Deputy is next with Question No. 7.
  • Departmental Programmes (28 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there has been progress in relation to the multi-annual funding of community projects. [27959/21]
  • Community Development Projects (7 speeches)
    9. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports provided by her Department for the maintenance and enhancement of community facilities; the way in which local community...
  • Digital Hubs (10 speeches)
    10. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the roll-out of an integrated national network of 400 remote working hubs; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Policies (7 speeches)
    11. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of her work towards remote working as per the Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 document; and if she...
  • Departmental Policies (8 speeches)
    12. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which her Department has continued to monitor and identify areas throughout the country deficient in adequate...
  • Island Communities (10 speeches)
    13. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when her Department will publish its islands policy and strategy to support island and coastal communities; the areas of focus that are...
  • Rural Schemes (9 speeches)
    15. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if consideration will be given to extending the local improvement scheme to areas of Cork city which were formally Cork county and...
  • Departmental Policies (7 speeches)
    19. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when her Department will publish the rural proofing model which underpins the Our Rural Future - Rural Development Policy 2021-2025...
• Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (1 speech)
  I wish to advise the House of the following in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Alan Farrell - to discuss the...
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Renewable Energy Generation (5 speeches)
    I cannot see the Minister of State but I know he is there. I will start by mentioning a development that occurred this evening. I am pleased to report that Fingal County Council, my local...
  • National Broadband Plan (4 speeches)
    I must say, I am glad to see the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, taking this Topical Issue matter. It falls into his constituency as well so it is actually quite good. I am sure he will be...
  • Fishing Industry (4 speeches)
    With no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, I regret that the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, is not here this evening to take this debate. He is very much aware of the difficulty...
  • Pyrite Incidence (16 speeches)
    There are five Deputies to speak on this Topical Issue debate. I am going to start with the names as they appear here. Deputy Calleary has one minute.