Dáil debates
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (149 speeches)
The days of the mass harvesting of turf are over. This is best underscored by the fact that Bord na Móna has moved from its traditional brown peat business to become a leading and...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (133 speeches)
The report of the Business Committee has been circulated and can be taken as read. In accordance with Standing Order 35, I call on the Government Chief Whip to move this week's Order of Business.
- Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has completed its consideration of the Defence Forces (Evidence) Bill 2019 and has made amendments thereto.
- Personal Protective Equipment (Covid 19) Bill 2022: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 to ensure employers provide employees with FFP-2 grade masks, or...
- Impaired Farm Credit Bill 2022: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for a sui generisDebt Management Protocol for the farming sector— A. to provide for the disaggregation of...
- Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Office of the Ombudsman) Regulations 2022: Motion (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...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- North-South Implementation Bodies (35 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Shared Island dialogue all-island women's forum civic initiative. [13967/22]
- Social Dialogue (19 speeches)
13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [12671/22]
- Prüm II Proposal: Motion (5 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...
- Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the opportunity to address Dáil Éireann today on the Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022, which was published...
- Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).
- Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (17 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: — it is not possible for the Government to fully insulate all households from every price increase but, nonetheless, believes...
- Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Justice has completed its consideration of the Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021 and has made amendments thereto.
- 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 Murnane...
- Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (35 speeches)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Claire Kerrane on Tuesday, 26 April 2022:
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Transport Policy (7 speeches)
87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering extending the 10-year rule for taxis in view of the fact that vehicles were underused for the duration of the...
- Statutory Instruments (7 speeches)
88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons for the ongoing delay in signing the statutory instrument to give effect to changes in the regular wages scheme for CIÉ...
- Electric Vehicles (7 speeches)
89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way that he intends to build a second-hand electric vehicle, EV, market here; if he has examined the barriers posed by Brexit in the...
- Road Tolls (12 speeches)
90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the urgent need to remove the Dublin Port tunnel toll to reduce carbon emissions; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Road Network (22 speeches)
91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the proposed upgrade of the N25 national road between Midleton and Carrigtwohill, County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Haulage Industry (7 speeches)
93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his engagements with truckers in relation to the rising cost of fuel which is pushing businesses to the brink; and if he...
- Public Transport (9 speeches)
95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department plans to provide free public transport to refugees who are arriving in Ireland from Ukraine; and if he will make a...
- Transport Costs (7 speeches)
97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure that there are appropriate youth travel public transport fares available for 16- to 18-year-olds across...
- Public Transport (7 speeches)
98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will raise with the Minister for Social Protection and the National Transport Authority the difficulties faced by those with free...
- Airport Policy (7 speeches)
100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that his Department officials urgently engage with their counterparts in the Department of the Taoiseach and the board...
- Transport Policy (7 speeches)
101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to decarbonise last-mile deliveries in town and city centres and in particular to use smaller and lighter...
- Public Transport (7 speeches)
102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a reduction in Expressway bus fares, such as on route 40, Tralee to Cork, and route 51, Limerick to Cork, can be considered as part of...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Ambulance Service (4 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State. The issues I wish to raise are intertwined. I have raised previously the need for a proper ambulance in Carlow with the Minister. While I appreciate having the...
- Hospital Overcrowding (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this important issue for discussion. On 21 April, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, recorded a figure of 126 patients on trolleys...
- Animal Welfare (6 speeches)
As much as I enjoy a debate with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, of which we have had many, I am disappointed that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is not present to take...
- Common Agricultural Policy (5 speeches)
I will have to revise a number of my remarks because I had very much hoped I would be having a discussion with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine this evening. Of course, that is...
