Dáil debates
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Visit of Malawian Delegation (1 speech)
Before Leaders’ Questions, I ask Members to join me in extending a very warm céad míle fáilte to our Malawian counterparts, Her Excellency Ms Catherine Gotani Hara, Speaker...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (36 speeches)
I also extend a very warm welcome to our friends from Malawi. A report by the Central Statistics Office, CSO, yesterday revealed that since March 2022 wholesale electricity costs have fallen by...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (48 speeches)
I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Statements on Accommodation Needs for New Arrival to Ireland (not to exceed 210 mins). Private Members' business shall be the Motion reHospital Waiting...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Cabinet Committees (31 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [20326/23]
- Economic Policy (39 speeches)
15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [21423/23]
- Cabinet Committees (22 speeches)
27. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on a humanitarian response to Ukraine will next meet. [21424/23]
- Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (49 speeches)
I will be sharing time with the Ministers, Deputies Darragh O'Brien and Harris. I will begin by setting out the context in which we are having this debate. Since February 2022, more than...
- Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (32 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the average waiting time for emergency department admission so far this year stands at 11.5 hours, which is an hour longer than...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Schemes (7 speeches)
72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her Department's review of the extension of the free travel scheme to people with epilepsy;...
- Hospice Services (7 speeches)
73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has had regard to a report by the Irish Hospice Foundation on the real financial impact of bereavement; and, if so, her...
- Social Welfare Eligibility (7 speeches)
74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the fact that adult dependants were excluded from the recent €200 cost-of-living bonus payment; and if she...
- Pensions Reform (7 speeches)
75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the possible effects on pensioner poverty of the proposed total contributions approach,...
- Employment Schemes (9 speeches)
76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the tender for EmployAbility that was due to be published in April 2023; and if she will make...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Benefits (12 speeches)
77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has examined expanding the payment of child benefit to children in full-time education or training up until...
- School Meals Programme (10 speeches)
79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress that has been made in expanding the hot school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Redundancy Payments (8 speeches)
80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the work undertaken by her Department to support the 200 people facing redundancy from a company (details...
- Community Employment Schemes (7 speeches)
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider further supporting the seniors community alert programme through the community employment scheme,...
- Rural Schemes (13 speeches)
82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made with the review of the rural social scheme; when it will be completed; and if she will make a statement on...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 speeches)
83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline her Department's plans to provide support for healthcare workers experiencing long Covid as a result of...
- Social Welfare Payments (5 speeches)
84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in reforming the jobseeker’s allowance payment to link it to a person’s previous most...
- 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 Whitmore - to...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Water Services (5 speeches)
Deputy Dillon wants to discuss the importance of the multi-annual rural water programme, which is very important in County Mayo.
- Work Permits (22 speeches)
In the next Topical Issue debate, Deputies Joan Collins and Mick Barry will discuss the situation facing a group of nurses, mainly from India, who are working as healthcare assistants under a...
- Nursing Homes (8 speeches)
At the heart of this matter are 73 families who are extremely worried at this point in time. They do not know what the future holds for their loved ones. They do not know how they can possibly...
- Care Services (16 speeches)
Go raibh míle maith agat, a Cheann Chomhairle, as ucht an ábhair seo a roghnú. Tá sé práinneach agus tá sé tábhachtach. Faraor géar, tá...
