Dáil debates

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 14:00
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (71 speeches)
  Now I will take Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 36. The Standing Order allows for a brief question on a matter of topical public importance from each leader or representative of Sinn...
• An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (78 speeches)
  I move: Wednesday's business shall be: - Motion re Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions (to be taken without debate and any division claimed to be taken immediately) - Motion re...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That— (1) the rota in which Questions shall be addressed to members of the Government pursuant to Standing Order 48(2) shall be as follows: 1. Minister for Foreign Affairs...
• Restoration of Bills to Order Paper: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 205, the Bills which lapsed on the dissolution of the 33rd Dáil, and are set out in the Schedule to this motion, shall be restored, at the stage...
• Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny (13 speeches)
  I move: That, in accordance with Standing Order 181(2), initiation of the Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025 may...
• Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (9 speeches)
  I am grateful for the opportunity, as Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, to make this statement to the Dáil following one of the most dangerous and destructive wind storms...
• Teachtaireachtaí ón Seanad - Messages from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Éireann has passed the Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024 without amendment. Seanad Éireann has accepted the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024...
• Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (70 speeches)
  If the Chair will indulge me for a moment, as this is the first time I have spoken in this historic Chamber as an elected Member of Dáil Éireann, I would like to thank the people 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 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Seán Ó...
• Situation in Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (64 speeches)
  I welcome the Tánaiste to the House. I invite Deputy Ó Laoghaire to move the motion.
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Building Regulations (12 speeches)
    I hope they do not find out I am here; they might stop me talking. It is very important to debate this issue here tonight. Many people in Kerry have been perished from the cold when the...
  • Forestry Sector (4 speeches)
    I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, on his recent appointment. I wish him well in his new role. I have no doubt he has hit the ground running. The Minister of...
  • Bus Services (4 speeches)
    In the past two weeks, I have been inundated with complaints about Go-Ahead Ireland buses not showing up. I have spoken to my colleague, Councillor Conor Reddy in Ballymun-Finglas. I have also...
  • Social Welfare Code (5 speeches)
    We now move to Deputy Pat Buckley.