Dáil debates
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.00 p.m.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (48 speeches)
We will take Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 36, with Deputy Mary Lou McDonald first.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (32 speeches)
The report of the Business Committee has been circulated and can be taken as read. Are the proposed arrangements for this week's business agreed to?
- Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022 and has made amendments thereto.
- An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (36 speeches)
Roadbridge, one of Ireland's largest construction firms, has gone into receivership. It is devastating news for the company's workers and subcontractors. Roadbridge could owe at least...
- Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Office of the Ombudsman) Regulations 2022: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Office of the Ombudsman) Regulations 2022 a copy of which was laid...
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Instruction to Committee (1 speech)
I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 187, it be an instruction to the Committee to which the Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022 may be recommitted in respect of certain...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (23 speeches)
I call on the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, to make a statement under Standing Order 55.
- Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (34 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the cost of household energy is spiralling, with more than 30 different price increase announcements from Irish energy suppliers over...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Payments (7 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to an issue (details supplied) in relation to the legislation regarding the liable relatives...
- Social Welfare Eligibility (16 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that she will take to ensure that refugees from Ukraine will be able to have access to social protection...
- Social Welfare Eligibility (7 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the 30-hour rule on eligibility for the exceptional needs payment; the supports that are...
- School Meals Programme (7 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools participating in the schools meals scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and the...
- Social Welfare Eligibility (7 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the criteria for the fuel allowance and allow some latitude in the application criteria for the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Schemes (7 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that has been allocated for the working family payment scheme that supports parents at work in 2022; the additional...
- Social Welfare Schemes (7 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that persons in receipt of jobseeker's benefit, illness benefit, enhanced illness benefit, occupational injuries...
- Fuel Prices (7 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends on widening the eligibility criteria for the free fuel allowance and increasing the payment in order that the...
- Energy Prices (5 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is monitoring the impact of recent cost-of-living measures with a view to their effectiveness, given both...
- Care Services (7 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the supports for carers to help them to take up training, education or employment while continuing to...
- Rural Schemes (7 speeches)
11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her Department’s planned review of the rural social scheme; if Tús will also be examined; and if she...
- Pensions Reform (6 speeches)
13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her strategy to address any decrease in income arising from a removal of an exemption to pay PRSI on supplementary pension...
- Social Welfare Payments (3 speeches)
14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that are being taken to ensure that Ukrainian refugees can access the supplementary welfare allowance and child...
- Social Welfare Benefits (3 speeches)
16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the means testing of carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14824/22]
- 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 37A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - to...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Education Schemes (5 speeches)
I would like to thank the Minister for coming this evening to reply. Some schools were disappointed and surprised that they were not included in the delivering equality of opportunity in...
- Coastal Protection (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter and allowing me to speak to it. The ice in the Antarctic and in Greenland is melting at an alarming rate, as was stated in a joint report...
- Passport Services (11 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for taking the time this evening. This has no bearing on the Minister of State whatsoever, but I want to point out my disappointment that we could...
- Company Liquidations (16 speeches)
It saddens me tonight to have to raise this matter in the Topical Issue debate. It is outrageous that a major company such as Roadbridge would leave so many people without work. I want to speak...
- Message from the Seanad (1 speech)
Seanad Éireann has passed the Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022, without amendment.
