Dáil debates
Thursday, 9 February 2023
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach (Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan) i gceannas ar 9 a.m.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Community Welfare Services (7 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the processing of additional needs’ payments; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Payments (9 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if income disregards could be reviewed for the purposes of assessment of means for carer’s allowance, with a view to...
- Social Welfare Code (7 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the implementation of the recommendations made by the child maintenance review group,...
- Child Poverty (11 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the steps she intends to take to eradicate child poverty. [6395/23]
- Community Welfare Services (8 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure that community welfare officers are readily accessible to all who need them, and that...
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Offices (9 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will detail the usage of the mobile unit to visit the homes of those who cannot attend the Intreo office, by county from...
- Social Welfare Payments (7 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of the length of time it is taking in different areas to process additional needs payments; and if...
- Social Welfare Payments (7 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports she has put in place to deal with the consistent delays in processing applications for additional needs payments;...
- State Pensions (9 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on a State pension solution for long-term family carers; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits (10 speeches)
11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received in 2022 for disability allowance, domiciliary care allowance and carer’s allowance;...
- Community Employment Schemes (8 speeches)
12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on engagement from her Department with community employment supervisors regarding their...
- Social Welfare Benefits (11 speeches)
13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of the total allocation of extra funding to community welfare officers to deal with applicants for...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Childcare Services (7 speeches)
60. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to change the legal status of childminders, which would make possible the future regulation of...
- Disability Services (7 speeches)
61. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the changes he plans to implement in order to improve and to fulfil the rights of children and...
- Ukraine War (7 speeches)
62. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the modular units for Ukrainian families fleeing the war in their country,...
- Ukraine War (7 speeches)
63. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the alternative accommodation that he has in mind for Ukrainian refugees in Killarney and Kerry, given that the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
Question No. 64 taken after Question No. 69.
- Housing Provision (17 speeches)
65. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans his Department has to deal with the shortfall of accommodation for refugees; if his Department has...
- International Protection (11 speeches)
66. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on new accommodation being procured in County Clare to cater for those entering...
- Child Protection (7 speeches)
68. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied that adequate support exists for all children insofar as is possible who might be subjected to...
- Ministerial Responsibilities (7 speeches)
69. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the roles and responsibilities of the newly appointed Minister of State with special responsibility for...
- Childcare Services (8 speeches)
64. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare services that have signed a core funding contract to date; the number of services that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (43 speeches)
Tá costais morgáiste ardaithe ag na mílte úinéirí tí mar thoradh ar ardú na rátaí úis atá feicthe le cúpla mí anuas....
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (47 speeches)
The Nuremore Hotel and Country Club in Carrickmacross has been an important part of the south Monaghan economy and its regional tourism generation for several decades. The hotel was purchased in...
- Application for Private Bill: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the application for a private Bill entitled The Royal Hibernian Academy (Amendment of Charter) Bill, being a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Charter of 1861 under which the Royal...
- Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (40 speeches)
I would like to start today by addressing the verbal and physical attacks on healthcare workers that have been reported in recent days. That our staff have to endure such attacks while...
- 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 Aengus Ó Snodaigh -...
- Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (Resumed) (1 speech)
I thank the Deputies for all their contributions today. Debates like these are important so that we can all reflect on how the State is currently supporting its citizens, highlight deficiencies...
- Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: 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).
- Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (21 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: — not enough homes are being built, too many vacant and derelict homes remain unused, and the overreliance on the private sector...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- National Children's Hospital (4 speeches)
Again, I speak on this old chestnut at this stage. An rud atá á lorg agamsa inniu ná cinneadh ón Rialtas go mbeadh ainm an réabhlóidí, Dr. Kathleen Lynn, ar...
- Road Projects (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this matter. I also thank the Minister of State for attending. While she is not a Minister in the Department of Transport, it is great she is...
- Road Network (5 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State for being present and the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this particular issue regarding what is described as a rampart road. Such a road is built on...
- Technological Universities (6 speeches)
I congratulate the Minister of State and wish her well in her new role. It is a really interesting one and I am sure she will be excellent in it.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the service of the year ending on 31 December...
