Dáil debates
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Visit of French Delegation (1 speech)
I ask Members to extend a very warm céad míle fáilte to our very good friend, the Ambassador of France, H.E. Vincent Guérend, who is in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (62 speeches, 1 comment)
I call Deputy McDonald.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (114 speeches)
The report of the Business Committee has been circulated and can be taken as read. Are the proposed arrangements for this week agreed to?
- Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (1 speech)
I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
- Report of the Joint Committee regarding Carbon Budgets under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Acts 2015 to 2021: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That Dáil Éireann hereby notes the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action report laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas on 7th February, 2022, pursuant to Section...
- Fisheries (Commercial Fishing Licences) (Alteration of Duties and Fees) Order 2022: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Fisheries (Commercial Fishing Licences) (Alteration of Duties and Fees) Order 2022, copies of which were laid...
- Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022, a copy of which has...
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 30th July, 2020, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral...
- Report of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform pursuant to Standing Order 118A(2)(b), a Special Committee on International...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Cabinet Committees (34 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [4364/22]
- Cabinet Committees (39 speeches)
11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economic Recovery and Investment last met; and when it will next meet. [4371/22]
- Citizens' Assembly (26 speeches)
20. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [4718/22]
- Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Motion (8 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: commends the Women of Honour, a group of former Defence Forces members, for their bravery, courage and commitment in telling their experiences in the...
- 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 Michael Healy-Rae - to...
- Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 speeches)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Sorca Clarke on Tuesday, 8 February 2022: Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: -(Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, Deputy Jack Chambers)
- Estimates for Public Services 2022: Messages from Select Committees (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Justice has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2022: Votes 20, 21, 22, 24,...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Third Level Education (17 speeches)
48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to increase places at third level for in-demand courses to address skill shortages and take unnecessary pressure...
- Third Level Education (7 speeches)
49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will commission an audit of buildings and teaching practices in third-level institutions to determine the accommodations that...
- Apprenticeship Programmes (7 speeches)
50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cause of the 17% increase in apprentices waiting to access off-the-job training in the past two months, which has brought the total back up to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
Questions Nos. 51 to 53, inclusive, replied to with Written Answers.
- Educational Disadvantage (7 speeches)
54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the strategic action plan for equity, participation and success in higher education 2022-2026; and if he will make a statement on...
- Third Level Fees (24 speeches)
55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will bring forward a plan to reduce student fees for third level students; if this will be in place for the next academic year; and if he...
- Third Level Admissions (7 speeches)
56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase degree places for nursing and midwifery for September 2022 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6386/22]
- Third Level Costs (7 speeches)
57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way his Department intends to address the costs associated with further and higher education such as student accommodation costs and the...
- Nursing Education (7 speeches)
58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional places on nursing courses will be provided for the 2022-23 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6459/22]
- Apprenticeship Programmes (9 speeches)
59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his strategy to broaden the number of new apprenticeships; the details of the development of the seven new apprenticeship programmes announced for...
- Further and Higher Education (10 speeches)
61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects that will be progressed in 2022 in the upgrading of existing accommodation and the provision of new accommodation in the further...
- Grant Payments (12 speeches)
We now move to County Meath and I call Deputy Tóibín.
- Departmental Policies (5 speeches)
68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the importance of mathematics in the work his Department is undertaking to promote and support research, innovation and science; and if he will...
- Further and Higher Education (7 speeches)
69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which third and fourth level education is likely to focus on the need to supply suitably qualified staff in the public and private...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Planning Issues (4 speeches)
Last week's decision by An Bord Pleanála to approve a wind farm at Derreendonee in Curraglass, along the southern rim of Cork's beauty spot, Gougane Barra, has really taken locals in...
- Diaspora Issues (4 speeches)
I am thankful for being facilitated in this short debate this evening. In the context of the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, after almost two difficult years, it is appropriate that we should...
- Land Issues (10 speeches)
I thank the Minister, Deputy Foley, for making an extra effort to be here today. I understand that she had an earlier engagement. It is genuinely appreciated by all of us. The question in...
