Dáil debates
Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 09:00
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Hospital Facilities (7 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute inpatient beds in the hospital system; the number of beds he will add this year; and if he has secured funding for the needed and promised...
- Cancer Services (7 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the impact on a number of cancer care programmes arising from the decision not to award any new development funding to the national cancer strategy...
- Hospital Appointments Status (10 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated elective cancellations in 2023; and the number of elective procedures outsourced to private medicine in public hospitals or...
- Nursing Homes (11 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to the recent ERSI report on the changes and challenges facing the Irish long-term residential care sector since Covid-19; his views on the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Departmental Meetings (7 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to meeting transgender advocacy groups to discuss the provision of transgender healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1975/24]
- Hospital Services (7 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Health the level of additional core expenditure for new developments, excluding funding for carryover and otherwise maintaining existing levels of service, which has...
- Information and Communications Technology (7 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Health in what areas in acute hospital settings AI technology is being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2032/24]
- Ambulance Service (7 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance drivers recruited to the National Ambulance Service and the number of ambulance drivers who have left the National Ambulance Service in...
- Health Promotion (7 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ban tanning sunbeds outright, given the serious and increased risk of incidences of skin cancer. which is supported by scientific evidence linking...
- Medicinal Products (7 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which new modern, effective and safe drugs can become available here once approved by the EU authorities; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services (7 speeches)
11. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the availability of homebirth services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1839/24]
- State Bodies (9 speeches)
12. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the membership of the commission on ageing; and how the public will be able to engage with it. [2082/24]
- Emergency Departments (8 speeches)
13. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who died while waiting to be seen in emergency departments in the State in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Student Accommodation (10 speeches)
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the delivery of student housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2286/24]
- Third Level Education (7 speeches)
75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand on the funding for which students from the Republic of Ireland can apply for in respect of medicine places in universities in...
- Further and Higher Education (13 speeches)
76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work he is doing to ensure that current students and apprentices are retained within Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Education and Training Boards (7 speeches)
77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed site that the Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board has identified for a training centre in Roscommon town;...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Further and Higher Education (9 speeches)
78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the long-outstanding issue of regularising the terms and conditions of adult education tutors employed by education and...
- Apprenticeship Programmes (27 speeches)
82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what progress has been made in reducing the time period for electrical-instrument and mechanical apprentices to attend college placement at a...
- Further and Higher Education (7 speeches)
80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his priorities for 2024, in particular if he will consider how SUSI can help more students and their families; and if he will make a...
- Third Level Education (8 speeches)
79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he and his Department continue to make extra third level places available by whatever means to ensure that this...
- Further and Higher Education (7 speeches)
81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on proposals to develop MSLETB as a College of the Future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2010/24]
- Disability Services (7 speeches)
84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve pay and conditions for personal assistants working in further education settings; and to provide an update on the development...
- Apprenticeship Programmes (8 speeches)
85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans for the further expansion of apprenticeship courses in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2027/24]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (74 speeches)
Faoin Rialtas seo, níl dabht ar bith ach go leanfaidh creach-chistí ar aghaidh ag ceannach tithe teaghlaigh atá ag teastáil ó cheannaitheoirí tí atá ag...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (44 speeches, 2 comments)
The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is in the Chamber and she may want to take this question. I raise the important and sensitive issue of the closure of the Letterkenny-based child and...
- Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 speeches)
Question proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands pursuant to Standing Order 95 and Standing Order 180(1).
- Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be read a Second Time." I am sharing time with my seconders, Deputies Brendan Howlin and Ged Nash, who will be taking five minutes each.
- 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 Steven Matthews - To discuss...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (1 speech)
As Deputy Bacik is here, we will begin with her.
- School Facilities (17 speeches)
I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach and thank the Minister for taking this issue. I have raised the condition of facilities and infrastructure at the Enable Ireland Sandymount School. I...
- Schools Building Projects (4 speeches)
This is also related to education and schools and I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, for dealing with it. I was informed that the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, would not be...
- Small and Medium Enterprises (8 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for accepting this issue for debate and I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Neale Richmond, for coming to the House. We are all very aware of high-profile closures...
- Defective Building Materials (4 speeches)
As the Minister of State is aware, County Sligo is one of the few counties in the western seaboard that has been left out of the defective concrete blocks grant scheme. Counties Mayo, Donegal...
