Dáil debates
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9 a.m.
- Appointment of Ordinary Members of An Coimisiún Toghcháin: Motion (4 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting that the Government on 13th December, 2022, nominated Mr. John Curran, Ms. Maura Quinn, Mr. Alex Attwood and Professor Caroline Fennell for...
- Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (68 speeches)
I move: "That Dáil Éireann: agrees that: — privatisation and marketisation of the energy system has failed; — it has led to exorbitant household heating and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 speeches)
A report published by HIQA this morning is a damning indictment of Government health policy. It states emergency departments are now under "unprecedented strain", echoing the concerns of the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (47 speeches)
We are two and a half years into the programme for Government yet the transfer of specialist disability services from the Department of Health to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability,...
- Ukraine Solidarity Bill 2022: First Stage (7 speeches)
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide comprehensive solidarity to Ukraine in the face of the unlawful war of aggression waged by the Russian Federation...
- Cost of Renewables Taskforce Bill 2022: First Stage (6 speeches)
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to require the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to establish a cross-departmental taskforce to examine...
- Sustainable Energy Act 2002 (section 8(2)) (Conferral of Additional Functions — Energy Efficiency) Order 2022: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Sustainable Energy Act 2002 (section 8(2)) (Conferral of Additional Functions — Energy Efficiency) Order...
- Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (1 speech)
I move: That it be an instruction to the Committee, on the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022, that pursuant to Standing Order 187, the Committee has power to make...
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That Revised Estimates for the Public Services for the year ending 31st December, 2023, be presented to the Dáil and circulated to members, pursuant to Standing Orders 95(1)(a) and...
- Joint Committee on Standing Orders Relative to Private Business: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That: — in respect of the Report of the Joint Committee on Standing Orders (Private Business), dated 8th December, 2022, the annexed Draft Standing Orders to the Report be...
- Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (48 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am very pleased to bring the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill to Second Stage in the Dáil. I will go through...
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (2 speeches)
It is proposed that, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, the motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions be taken now without debate.
- 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...
- Appropriation Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 speech)
Sections 1 to 4, inclusive, agreed to.
- Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (11 speeches)
Bill received for final consideration.
- Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (67 speeches)
SECTION 1
- 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 Joe Flaherty - to discuss...
- Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (42 speeches)
The Dáil went into Committee to consider amendments from the Seanad.
- Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (1 speech)
Seanad Éireann has passed the National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022, without recommendation. Seanad Éireann has passed the Tailte Éireann Bill 2022, without...
- Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 speeches)
Section 1 agreed to.
- Suspension of Member (1 speech)
On 9 November 2022, Deputy Marc MacSharry made remarks in the Dáil in which he alleged bias for over a year on the part of the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and, by extension, myself, in the...
- Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 speech)
The following motion was moved by Deputy David Cullinane on Tuesday, 13 December 2022:
- Nationalisation of the Energy System: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 speech)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Paul Murphy on Wednesday, 14 December 2022:
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (5 speeches)
The temporary Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme, TWSS, was announced on 24 March 2020 and ran until 31 August 2020. It replaced the Revenue employer Covid-19 refund scheme. It allowed employers to...
- Nursing Homes (6 speeches)
We will now move back to the first Topical Issue matter, which was submitted by Deputy Flaherty.
- Inland Fisheries (9 speeches)
This Topical Issue matter is in the names of Deputies Ring, Fitzmaurice and Canney.
- Garda Investigations (4 speeches)
The 50th anniversary of the bombings at Belturbet in County Cavan, Clones in County Monaghan and Pettigo in County Donegal will be marked on 28 December. The three bombs exploded within 49...