Dáil debates

Thursday, 26 January 2023

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 8.54 a.m.
• Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Tourism Industry (8 speeches)
    1. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Question No. 1 of 17 November 2022, if she will provide an update on whether the wide range of alternative options being...
  • Film Industry (8 speeches)
    2. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the recent hearings at the budget scrutiny committee about section 481 film credit and the concerns raised by...
  • Údarás na Gaeltachta (8 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dáta faoina mbeidh bord nua ceaptha d’Údarás na Gaeltachta; conas a ligeadh do thréimhse an...
  • Tourism Industry (7 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the proactive measures her Department is taking to address and resolve the current recruitment and retention difficulties of the...
  • Tourism Funding (7 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans in place to give relief to the hotel sector at this time with the ongoing energy costs; and if she will make a statement...
• Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Question No. 6 taken with Written Answers.
  • Gender Balance (11 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update in respect of the action plan for sport 2021-2023 and the Government target to have 40% female...
  • Culture Policy (7 speeches)
    8. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 17 November 2022, the status of the legacy framework arising from Galway 2020; when the...
  • Ceisteanna Craolacháin (7 speeches)
    10. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dáta faoina bhfoilseofar an tuarascáil maidir le stáisiún raidió trí Ghaeilge don aos...
  • Film Industry (15 speeches)
    11. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to issues raised by film crew at the recent Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight hearings on...
  • Sports Funding (24 speeches)
    12. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next round of sports capital funding will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3062/23]
  • Sport and Recreational Development (8 speeches)
    Speaking of the summer ahead, Question No. 13 is in the name of Deputy Andrews.
  • Tourism Industry (8 speeches)
    14. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she continues to take to ensure that tourism is given every opportunity to develop and grow in the future notwithstanding...
• Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Housing Schemes (9 speeches)
    81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost-rental homes delivered through the cost-rental equity loan in 2022; the number of cost-rental homes...
  • Housing Provision (7 speeches)
    82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the slow-down in the construction of social housing, and on the implications of this slowing-down for renters...
  • Defective Building Materials (13 speeches)
    83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the regulations for and the opening of the enhanced defective concrete block redress scheme....
  • Housing Provision (18 speeches)
    84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government why his Department failed to spend its 2022 capital allocation for new build housing; the action he will take to ensure this...
  • Housing Provision (7 speeches)
    85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Question No. 89 of 30 November 2022 and Question No. 60 of 28 September 2022, if he has received the report in...
  • Homeless Persons Supports (7 speeches)
    86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to extend the moratorium on certain evictions after 31 March 2022; the other measures he will put in place to stop...
• Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Vacant Properties (28 speeches)
    87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people who have applied for the vacant property refurbishment grant; if he plans any more changes to the terms...
  • Defective Building Materials (22 speeches)
    88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to the scheme for the remediation of defects in apartments and duplexes, the procedures that are in place if a...
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (130 speeches)
  Léiríonn an taighde ón Choimisiúin Tithíochta go dtiteann spriocanna an Rialtais na mílte teach gann ón riachtanas tithíochta gach bliain. Tá teipthe...
• Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (66 speeches, 9 comments)
  Since June, the ECB has increased its interest rates by 2.5%. The Governor of the Central Bank came before the Committee on Finance yesterday and made clear to me and others that he expects...
• Forestry Strategy: Statements (58 speeches)
  I welcome this opportunity to address the House on Ireland's forestry strategy and other forestry matters. I emphasise again the importance of the forestry sector to the Irish economy and the...
• Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (49 speeches)
  Go raibh maith agat a Cheann Comhairle and I am sharing time with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. The Mental Health Commission's interim report is an important contribution to our...
• 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 Marian Harkin - To discuss...
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • General Practitioner Services (7 speeches)
    I have serious concerns about the NowDoc service. The NowDoc service is an out-of-hours GP service covering three municipalities, Carrick-on-Shannon and Ballinamore in south Leitrim, and Boyle...
  • Housing Schemes (6 speeches)
    I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, for his attendance. I have been meeting with tenants living in flat complexes across Dublin. I attended a meeting earlier today in Pearse House....
• Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I was delighted when I saw that our Bill had been chosen in the Bills lottery before Christmas and to get the opportunity to bring this Bill...