Dáil debates

Thursday, 19 May 2022

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.00 a.m.
• Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Employment Rights (7 speeches)
    1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to an organisation’s research study (details supplied), which found that one third of hybrid...
  • Middle East (7 speeches)
    2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reconsider IDA Ireland's expansion of its activities in Israel in view of the finding by Amnesty International that Israel...
  • Industrial Relations (12 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the intervention he can make in the case in which recommendations by the third-party industrial relations machinery of the State are...
  • Work Permits (9 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current processing time for work permit applications; his plans to reform the current scheme due to labour shortages within sectors...
  • Climate Action Plan (7 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the role of his Department in incentivising a technology-neutral approach to climate action until an alternative can be reached; if his...
• Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Covid-19 Pandemic (21 speeches)
    6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 26 April 2022, the status of his engagement at EU and WTO levels with regard to the...
  • Foreign Direct Investment (7 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which foreign direct investment continues to be a positive feature for job creation in County Kildare and throughout the...
  • Job Creation (19 speeches)
    10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to support job creation in regional towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23489/22]
  • Labour Market (10 speeches)
    13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps taken by him to ensure that employers have access to an adequate pool of qualified potential employees to meet the...
  • Enterprise Support Services (7 speeches)
    14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if specific additional financial supports will be introduced in 2022 to assist in the development of enterprise centres in view of...
  • Broadband Infrastructure (9 speeches)
    I will be concluding the session at 10.30 a.m. but I will allow Deputy Naughten to put his question.
• Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Third Level Education (7 speeches)
    95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to ensure that adequate places on in-demand courses, particularly where there is a corresponding skill shortage, have been...
  • Third Level Fees (7 speeches)
    96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce the student contribution charge in budget 2023; if so, the amount to be reduced; if the reduction will be backdated to the...
  • Third Level Costs (7 speeches)
    97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he is taking to support students and parents with the cost-of-living crisis, making particular reference to the 25% increase to...
  • Third Level Education (7 speeches)
    98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to support graduate entry medicine students following the decision by a bank (details supplied) to discontinue the only specialist loan...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes (7 speeches)
    99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of electrical, plumbing, carpentry-joinery and bricklaying and stone-laying apprentices, respectively, waiting to progress their...
• Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Third Level Admissions (8 speeches)
    100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being considered in respect of the yearly increase in the number of applicants to the CAO system and the lack of places for the most...
  • Ukraine War (5 speeches)
    102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on his Department's supports to assist Ukrainian people seeking access to third level education; and if he will make...
  • Education Costs (19 speeches)
    104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that he intends to introduce to address student poverty and the shortage of affordable student accommodation; and if he will make a...
  • Third Level Costs (8 speeches)
    105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline measures to improve funding supports for students in further and higher education, including an update on the review of the...
  • Further and Higher Education (10 speeches)
    106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if measures will be taken as part of budget 2023 to ensure that all financial barriers for those wishing to undertake further education or...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes (8 speeches)
    109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that apprenticeship training will help meet the targets of the new national retrofitting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Technological Universities (5 speeches)
    110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he and the Higher Education Authority are taking to progress the process of obtaining technological university status for Dundalk...
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 speeches)
  Níl dabht ar bith ach go bhfuil smacht caillte ag an Rialtas ar an ghéarchéim costais maireachtála. Tchímid go bhfuil méadú de 28% tagtha ar bhillí...
• Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (44 speeches)
  The Government's lack of forward planning in respect of special education school places is holding children back from achieving their full potential. The Government has had plenty of warning...
• Planning and Development (Strategic Housing Developments) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Leave to Withdraw [Private Members] (1 speech)
  I move: That leave be granted to withdraw the Planning and Development (Strategic Housing Developments) (Amendment) Bill 2021.
• National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (8 speeches)
  I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak today on my strategic action plan for the renewal of the National Parks and Wildlife Service and to hear the contributions of Deputies from across...
• Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (1 speech)
  Roimh bhogadh ar aghaidh tá na hÁbhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla le léamh amach agam. I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has...
• National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (29 speeches)
  It is fitting, on National Biodiversity Week, an initiative run by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, that we are having these important statements on the new strategic action plan....
• Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Health Services Staff (10 speeches)
    I raise the serious issue of medical scientists and their trade union, the Medical Laboratory Scientist Association's 21-year campaign to implement their pay parity claim, which was approved by...
  • Citizens Information Services (4 speeches)
    I am trying to clear up some confusion and doubt about the Wicklow Town Citizens Information Centre, a very much appreciated source of information and assistance to local residents not just in...
  • School Accommodation (4 speeches)
    I dtús báire ba mhaith liom a rá leis an Aire go bhfuil an méid dul cinn atá déanta ag Gaelscoil Uí Earcáin i bhFionnghlas dochreidte ó bunaíodh...
  • School Admissions (4 speeches)
    I thank the Minister for Education for being present in the Chamber and the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue matter. I was extraordinarily honoured to welcome the Minister to the...
• Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020 Report: Motion (5 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science entitled "Report on the...