Dáil debates

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
• Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (2 speeches)
  I welcome you all back. Apologies that the bells did not ring. Members might indulge me for a moment because I am conscious we are facing into an extremely busy parliamentary schedule with a...
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (41 speeches)
  I will now take Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 36. It is my pleasure to call Deputy McDonald.
• Resignation of Member (2 speeches)
  I wish to announce for the information of the House that I received a letter of resignation on 27 August 2024 from Joe Carey, a member of Dáil Éireann for the constituency of Clare. In...
• An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (67 speeches)
  I move: Wednesday's business shall be: - Motion re Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions (without debate) - Motion re Thirty-First Report of the Standing Committee of Selection and...
• Animal Health and Welfare (Prohibition of Animal Testing for Botox) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to prohibit animal testing for botox. I am introducing the Bill for a very...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 29th March, 2023, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for...
• Thirty-First Report of Standing Committee and Appointment of Committee Cathaoirligh: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to Standing Order 34, and with effect from 19th September, 2024— (1) approves the Thirty-First Report of the Standing Committee of...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
  • Cabinet Committees (18 speeches)
    1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [36562/24]
  • Cabinet Committees (16 speeches)
    3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [36563/24]
  • Cabinet Committees (8 speeches)
    6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [36564/24]
• Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Éireann has passed the Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 without amendment.
• CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (46 speeches)
  Last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment, the final milestone in what has been a long-running legal process, beginning in 2013 when the Commission began their...
• Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." As Minister of State for mental health and older people, I am pleased to introduce the Mental Health Bill to the House. The Bill has been...
• 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 Pearse Doherty - to discuss...
• Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (40 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises: — the importance of affordable, accessible and reliable childcare or childminding arrangements for working families, society and the...
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Defective Building Materials (10 speeches)
    I thank the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, for staying for this Topical Issue matter. The next facet of the defective blocks crisis emerging in County Donegal is that within community childcare...
  • School Funding (13 speeches)
    Táimid ag bogadh ar aghaidh anois go dtí an dara Saincheist Thráthúil. Deputies Mick Barry, Pádraig O'Sullivan agus Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire wish to discuss the lack...
  • Road Projects (8 speeches)
    I am glad to get the opportunity to raise again the proposed Killarney bypass. I have raised this matter several times in this Chamber since I was elected to it in 2016. The Minister was in the...
  • Renewable Energy Generation (4 speeches)
    It is a given that we must reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and increase the use of renewable and low-carbon energy sources, such as wind and solar, as I am sure the Minister of State will...