Dáil debates

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (87 speeches)
  Another day and another revelation of Government waste of public money. Over the weekend, it emerged that in 2017 the National Gallery of Ireland purchased a scanner at a cost to the taxpayer of...
• Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Appointment of Members (1 speech)
  I thank the Taoiseach very much. Further to the Order of the House of 23 January 2025, I wish to announce for the information of the House that the following Members have been appointed to...
• An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (117 speeches)
  I move:Tuesday's business shall be Statements on Disability (not to exceed 2 hrs 25 mins). Tuesday's private members' business shall be the Motion re Driving Test Waiting Times, selected by Sinn...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
  • Cabinet Committees (23 speeches)
    1. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the establishment of a Cabinet committee on water quality to co-ordinate water quality improvements across all sectors; and when it will hold its first...
  • Cabinet Committees (47 speeches)
    12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [2680/25]
  • Cabinet Committees (31 speeches)
    30. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet [2681/25]
• Disability: Statements (46 speeches)
  We are now moving to statements on disability. I call the Minister, Deputy Foley, to make her opening statement under Standing Order 55.
• Driver Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (49 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes, with concern, the huge backlog in those waiting on a driving test, with 72,414 people now in limbo, an increase of over 60 per cent since 2022; is...
• Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Mother and Baby Homes (7 speeches)
    110. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will bring forward the review into the mother and baby institutions payment scheme due to be completed...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education (7 speeches)
    111. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action she intends to take to ensure that parents have access to State-provided early years education...
  • Special Educational Needs (7 speeches)
    112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of needs; the average waiting time; the measures...
  • Disability Services (7 speeches)
    113. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline her plans to reform and improve the provision of children’s disability network teams,...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education (7 speeches)
    114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline in relation to core funding, for each programme year, the total value of core funding, the...
  • Early Childhood Care and Education (7 speeches)
    117. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the work ongoing within her Department toward the reduction of childcare costs and making childcare more...
  • Disability Services (19 speeches)
    119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding any initiatives or research her Department proposes to attract and retain staff in the...
  • Childcare Services (7 speeches)
    120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in Kilkenny benefiting from the national childcare scheme; and if she will make a...
  • Disability Services (7 speeches)
    121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide the updated figures from the CDNT workforce report carried out in October 2024; if she will...
  • Childcare Services (11 speeches)
    122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the efforts being made to urgently address the crisis within the childcare system, with many childcare...
  • Childcare Services (7 speeches)
    123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what steps she intends to take to implement the programme for Government commitment to extend the national...
  • Disabilities Assessments (5 speeches)
    125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her Department's plans to reduce the number of children waiting longer than three months for their assessment 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 Joanna Byrne - To discuss...
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Hospital Services (4 speeches)
    I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and congratulate him on his position. There are no dedicated public inpatient beds for adults with anorexia or other eating disorders in the mid-west region....
  • Ambulance Service (6 speeches)
    I begin by offering my congratulations to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his elevation. I hope his new role does not distract him from continuing to represent my in-laws in Kilkenny city, namely...
  • Special Educational Needs (4 speeches)
    I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his appointment. The lack of suitable school places for children with additional needs is critical for many families in my constituency of Cork...
  • Primary Care Services (4 speeches)
    I add my congratulations to the concerto of congratulations. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for coming to the House this evening. I am sorry to subject the Minister of State to...