Dáil debates
Thursday, 3 February 2022
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9 a.m.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Employment Support Services (7 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to concerns from trade unions representing employment service staff in relation to their...
- Community Welfare Services (7 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes that are foreseen in the delivery of community welfare office services; if it is intended to centralise those...
- Rural Schemes (7 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of those involved in the rural social scheme with regard to the six-year rule;...
- Social Welfare Payments (7 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for recipient's of jobseekers payments having to visit post offices to receive their payment; and if she will...
- Departmental Reports (8 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress in relation to the child maintenance review group report in view of the fact the report was due to be published by...
- Estimates for Public Services 2022: Messages from Select Committees (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Pensions Reform (7 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her strategy to address the proposal to remove the exemption to pay PRSI on supplementary pension income, occupational and...
- Social Welfare Benefits (5 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in County Mayo in receipt of the carer’s allowance; if they will receive a bonus payment for their...
- Social Welfare Benefits (9 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to review the household benefits package due to the increases in cost of living; and if she will make a...
- Post Office Network (7 speeches)
11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her strategy to support the rural post office network; the additional departmental services that could be provided via the...
- Social Welfare Eligibility (12 speeches)
15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the back to education allowance guidelines that refuse applications on the basis that the only master's degree...
- Pension Provisions (6 speeches)
16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the progress on introducing the auto-enrolment pension programme; and if she will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Appeals (8 speeches)
17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which backlogs in respect of applications for support are being eliminated; and if she will make a statement on...
- Disability Services (7 speeches)
14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the finding and conclusions of a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Employment Schemes (5 speeches)
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if referrals to JobPath ceased at the end of 2021 as planned; if the scheme will be reviewed; if the numbers who gained...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Child Poverty (7 speeches)
113. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the Better Outcomes Brighter Futures, National Advisory Council for Children...
- Childcare Services (7 speeches)
114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to improve the pay, benefits and conditions for professionals working in the childcare sector given...
- Domestic Violence (7 speeches)
115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made to date on securing a suitable location for a domestic violence refuge in Monaghan town; the...
- Disability Services (9 speeches)
116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans being put in place to address the findings of the cost of disability research report published on 7...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Childcare Services (7 speeches)
117. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of progress that has been made in installing HEPA filters in childcare centres, preschools and...
- EU Programmes (7 speeches)
118. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position on measures his Department is taking to implement the EU child guarantee; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Policies (7 speeches)
119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the national participation framework for children and young people’s participation in...
- Childcare Services (7 speeches)
120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to improve the pay and conditions of professionals in the childcare sector. [4894/22]
- Early Childhood Care and Education (7 speeches)
121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the expert group established to develop a new funding model for ELC and SAC; and if he will make a...
- Children in Care (8 speeches)
122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the research and data project to examine the lives of children in care and adults who were in care...
- Direct Provision System (9 speeches)
123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons being housed in direct provision to date; the number of these in own-door accommodation;...
- Domestic Violence (9 speeches)
126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of domestic violence refuge spaces nationally that are allocated for 2022; the cost of each refuge...
- Disability Services (13 speeches)
127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the responsibilities in relation to disability that have transferred to his Department; the total budget for...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 speeches)
Tá costais mhaireachtála agus costais bhia, chíos, chairr, fhuinneamh, theas agus chúram leanaí ag ardú. Tá muintir na tíre seo, gnáth teaghlaigh...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (80 speeches)
The Northern Executive, including all its Ministers, is legally obliged to comply with the commitments set out in the withdrawal agreement and the protocol. Yet, yesterday evening we witnessed a...
- European Union Regulation: Motion (11 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area...
- Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time". I am very pleased to introduce the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill today. The Tánaiste was very anxious that we get the...
- Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).
- Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (43 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Having regard to the unprecedented rise in electricity prices, I am pleased to have the opportunity to commend the Electricity Costs...
- 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 Jim O'Callaghan - to...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Northern Ireland (6 speeches)
I am very glad to see a Minister taking a slot on a Thursday evening. The graveyard slot, I think, is what people call it. This is an incredibly important issue. As with an awful lot of...
- Schools Building Projects (6 speeches)
This is the story of three very important schools in Celbridge, County Kildare. One is St. Raphael's Special School, in respect of which it was determined 20 years ago that it urgently needed...
- Commemorative Events (4 speeches)
Yesterday marked the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses. It is an event that deserves to be commemorated and recognised by this State. Over the past ten years, we have...
- Citizens' Assembly (4 speeches)
It is sometimes very hard to know how to articulate something that I have been campaigning on for almost seven years. Along with others, I have been convinced for a long time of the necessity...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." A well-functioning freedom of information regime is essential to any state that considers itself democratic because the fundamental...
