Dáil debates

Tuesday, 11 June 2024

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.00
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (68 speeches)
  Parents of children with special needs face a constant battle with the State to get their children the education services to which they are entitled. As we speak, many parents are once again...
• An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 speeches)
  I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion re Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions (without debate) - Motion re Consideration of Estimates by Committee (without debate) -...
• Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (38 speeches, 2 comments)
  I understand the Road Safety Authority, RSA, wrote to the Taoiseach last March asking for increased funding and detailing a number of projects that have stalled due to a shortfall. That has been...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 29th March, 2023, or in the Order of the Dáil of 8th May, 2024, setting out the rota in which Questions to members...
• Consideration of Estimates by Committee: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 215A and notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 31st January, 2024, the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage...
• Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (307 speeches)
  Bill recommitted in respect of amendments Nos. 1, amendments Nos. 1 and 2 to amendment No. 1, Nos. 2 to 4, inclusive, 8 to 12, inclusive, 19, 21, 27, 33, 34, 46, 708, 822 and 827 to 831, inclusive.
• 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 Pádraig O'Sullivan - To...
• Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (26 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: — every child has the right to education; — this time of the year is characterised by stress and panic for many parents...
• Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Social Welfare Appeals (7 speeches)
    1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of cases currently being considered by the social welfare appeals office, in tabular form; the longest waiting times...
  • Social Welfare Rates (8 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent, if any, to which improvements might be made in respect of various social welfare payments which currently might...
  • Social Insurance (7 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will support withdrawing the planned increases to employees' PRSI and increasing employers' PRSI towards European levels...
  • State Pensions (7 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that foster caring for children with additional complex needs does not qualify one for full pension support,...
  • Social Welfare Appeals (8 speeches)
    6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting times at the Social Welfare Appeals Office; if additional resources will be allocated to it; and if she...
  • Community Employment Schemes (8 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the community employment scheme has been subject to programme evaluation; if there are plans for its evolution; and if she...
  • School Meals Programme (8 speeches)
    8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand the hot school meals programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25423/24]
  • Social Welfare Rates (9 speeches)
    9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase social welfare rates in budget 2025 in order that no one is living below the poverty line; and if she will...
  • Social Welfare Appeals (7 speeches)
    10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline, with reference to section 317 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, the number of revisions...
  • School Meals Programme (7 speeches)
    11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expand the free school meals programme to all schools from September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Disability Services (9 speeches)
    12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 18 of 25 April 2024, her plans to reconsider the introduction of a cost-of-disability...
  • State Pensions (9 speeches)
    13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects to examine the possibility of allowing pro rata pensions for those that currently have...
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Care Services (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue matter this evening. I start by acknowledging the role that family carers play, firstly in society, in keeping people in their own...
  • Departmental Properties (4 speeches)
    I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for coming in this evening. It is appropriate that the Minister of State is here to answer this question as it was she and I who started on this...