Dáil debates
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (35 speeches)
The long-running debacle surrounding the construction and, more importantly, the completion of the national children's hospital rumbles on. This afternoon we learned that the staggering cost of...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (62 speeches)
I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion re Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach under Dáil Standing Order 133 on a Proposal for a...
- Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) 2024: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024. This Bill will: impose an obligation on employers, when...
- Report of Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motion (2 speeches)
I call Deputy Durkan, the Leas-Cathaoirleach of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, to move the motion.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Departmental Programmes (14 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the child poverty and well-being unit. [4031/24]
- Citizens' Assembly (14 speeches)
8. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [2746/24]
- Cabinet Committees (26 speeches)
16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [2807/24]
- Estimates for Public Services 2024: Messages from Select Committees (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31...
- Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (47 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Today, I will bring the Road Traffic Bill 2024 before the House. This Bill is an urgent and essential part of the Government's response to...
- Road Traffic Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Transport and Communications pursuant to Standing Orders 95 and 181.
- Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (58 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: — a vibrant, diverse, financially sustainable and independent media sector is critical to any well-functioning democracy;...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- School Transport (7 speeches)
65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will carry out a full and comprehensive review of the pay and working conditions of school bus escorts. [6201/24]
- School Admissions (7 speeches)
66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will increase funding and resources to ensure that no child is left without an appropriate school place; and if she will make a statement...
- State Examinations (7 speeches)
67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what engagements she has had with the State Examinations Commission with regard to the oral examinations due to take place over the Easter break....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Special Educational Needs (17 speeches)
68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the contents of her Department’s Circular 0002/2024 provides for additional therapeutic, behavioural and psychological supports for...
- Irish Language (7 speeches)
69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will conduct an investigation into the steep rise in exemptions from the study of Irish at primary and post-primary level to...
- Schools Building Projects (9 speeches)
72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the repair of the roof and rain shelters at a school (details supplied), which was most recently at pre-tender report stage. [6304/24]
- Physical Education (12 speeches)
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the potential inclusion of golf within the physical education curriculum specification, striking/fielding games category;...
- School Transport (9 speeches)
79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the school transport review. [6205/24]
- Bus Services (9 speeches)
80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action her Department is taking to deal with recruitment challenges of bus drivers under the school transport scheme; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects (5 speeches)
78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the planning permission applications for two schools (details supplied); if they are being prioritised by her Department to...
- Teaching Qualifications (7 speeches)
82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered designating any further universities, including technological universities, as centres of excellence for the purposes of...
- 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 Réada Cronin - To dicuss...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Inland Fisheries (7 speeches)
I express my disappointment. It is the second time I have put down this matter and the Minister has failed to show up. I want to register that strongly. I really am annoyed. I have stuff I...
- Schools Building Projects (4 speeches)
I wish to raise the issue of the Mercy Convent Primary School in Naas and to set out the sorry tale I have raised many times with the Minister, Deputy Foley. I want to put on record what has...
- Homeless Accommodation (4 speeches)
This Topical Issue matter relates to homeless services in Limerick, particularly the lack of space and how increased rents, the ending of the no-fault eviction ban and the failure to fund...
