Dáil debates

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
• Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (142 speeches)
  During the general election campaign, the Taoiseach, along with the Tánaiste, Simon Harris, and his Ministers, repeatedly claimed that 40,000 homes would be delivered in 2024. This was a...
• An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (164 speeches)
  I move: Wednesday’s business shall be:- Motion re Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions (without debate) - Statements on the Housing Commission Report (resumed) (not to exceed 2...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 5th February, 2025, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
  • Cabinet Committees (67 speeches)
    1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on climate action, environment and energy will meet next. [9171/25]
  • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (57 speeches)
    11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU leaders' informal retreat on 3 February 2025. [4389/25]
  • Commemorative Events (25 speeches)
    23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the commemoration for the liberation of Auschwitz. [4391/25]
• Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (32 speeches)
  This is a topic that many of us have tried to get speaking time on over the past few weeks so I appreciate the attendance of the Minister of State, Deputy Kieran O'Donnell. My first point...
• Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (42 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — under significant pressure from the Opposition, the Government reopened the Social Housing Tenant in-Situ Scheme in 2022, and,...
• 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 Paula Butterly - To discuss...
• Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • School Funding (4 speeches)
    I am grateful to the Minister of State, Deputy Harkin, for taking this topical issue. I want to raise the issue of the Sacred Heart school in Killinarden in my constituency. It is a DEIS...
  • Water Services (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this important issue for discussion tonight and the Minister of State for being here. This is a familiar issue which is frustrating for residents and...
  • School Funding (5 speeches)
    On a positive note, this is my first Topical Issue of this Dáil term. In the last term, too many Topical Issues would have been taken by one Minister of State. What we have tonight is a...
  • Men's Sheds (4 speeches)
    I thank the Minister for Rural and Community Development for coming to the Chamber to respond to this issue, which concerns men's sheds. I have been contacted by 17 different men's sheds in...