Dáil debates

Tuesday, 6 December 2022

  • Prelude (0 speeches)
    Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
  • Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (42 speeches)
    The report published this morning by the Banking and Payment Federation of Ireland, BPFI, confirms what we already know, which is that the housing policy of the Government is failing abysmally....
  • An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (77 speeches)
    I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion reProposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the terms of the Comprehensive Agreement in the field of Air Transport between the Member States...
  • Air Transport Agreement: Motion (2 speeches)
    I move: That Dáil Éireann approves, under Article 29.5.2° of the Constitution, the terms of the Comprehensive Agreement in the field of Air Transport between the Member States of...
  • Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (1 speech)
    I move: That, notwithstanding the Order of the Dáil of 16th December, 2020, the sequence in which Leaders shall be called upon to put questions between 13th December, 2022, and 27th April,...
  • Meastacháin Fhorlíontacha i gcomhair Seirbhísí Poiblí 2022: Teachtaireacht ó Roghchoiste (1 speech)
    Tá Roghchoiste na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge tar éis a bhreithnithe ar an Meastachán Forlíontach seo a leanas i gcomhair seirbhísí...
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (31 speeches)
    I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to have the opportunity to present the Gambling Regulation Bill to the House. I know there is significant support to...
  • Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
    I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice persuant to Standing Orders 95 and 181.
  • Building Defects: Motion [Private Members] (7 speeches)
    I move: That Dáil Éireann: welcomes the publication of the Report of the Working Group to Examine Defects in Housing; notes that the report: — estimates up to 100,000...
  • Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (1 speech)
    Seanad Éireann has passed the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022 without amendment.
  • Estimates for Public Services 2022: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
    The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2022: Vote 38.
  • 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: Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor -...
  • Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 speeches)
    Debate resumed on the following motion: - (Deputy Eoin Ó Broin)
  • Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
    Question No. 1 taken after Question No. 2.
    • An Garda Síochána (8 speeches)
      2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support an alteration to the policy in relation to the arming of gardaí; if she will support more gardaí...
    • An Garda Síochána (7 speeches)
      1. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on any plans her Department has to remedy the crisis in garda retention. [60923/22]
    • Parole Boards (8 speeches)
      3. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the establishment of the independent parole board. [60925/22]
    • An Garda Síochána (7 speeches)
      4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that only 92 new members started in Templemore this week; if issues relating to pay conditions, pension, paperwork,...
    • Asylum Applications (7 speeches)
      5. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have arrived in Ireland to date under the Afghan admissions programme; her plans to ensure that all 500...
  • Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
    Question No. 6 taken with Written Answers.
    • An Garda Síochána (8 speeches)
      7. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when GSOC will publish its investigation report into the killing of a person (details supplied) by gardaí; and if she will...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (8 speeches)
      8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the increased supports for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence services in 2023; and if she will make a...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (8 speeches)
      10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Government’s strategy on step-down accommodation in cases in which a person leaves a domestic violence refuge; and if...
    • Court Accommodation (7 speeches)
      11. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department owns the courthouse on Church Street, Kanturk, which has stood unused for many years; the plans for the...
    • Court Procedures (8 speeches)
      12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which current reforms of the family law courts might entail protection for mothers in respect of section 47...
    • An Garda Síochána (8 speeches)
      14. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when bodycams will be introduced, and training provided to members in using these body cams in view of the recent assault on...
    • Crime Prevention (7 speeches)
      17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the impact to date of new approaches to crime in areas of high incidence of crime and high risk of young...
  • Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
    • Emergency Departments (13 speeches)
      Last Saturday there were chaotic scenes at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, which is one of Ireland's busiest hospitals. A total of 11 ambulances were parked outside the emergency...
    • Health Service Executive (4 speeches)
      It has taken the heart-breaking case of a seven-year-old boy to bring the need for paediatric palliative care in the south-east region into focus. Last week, I raised the circumstances...
    • Special Educational Needs (3 speeches)
      I will discuss the very important issue of the urgent need for extra special needs assistant, SNA, allocation for Scoil Eoin in Innishannon, which is a village to the east of Bandon, between...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (4 speeches)
      On 19 January this year, this House stood collectively behind the community of Tullamore and the family of Ashling Murphy following her untimely and violent death at the hands of a man in plain...