Dáil debates
Thursday, 1 May 2025
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach (Deputy Aidan Farrelly) i gceannas ar 08:47
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Job Losses (8 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the steps he is taking to protect jobs in the technological sector; if an audit of job security across the sector has...
- Programme for Government (7 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is envisaged that a new whole-of-government action plan on competitiveness and productivity will be finalised in line with the...
- Low Pay (7 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason previous commitments made by the Government on workers’ rights issues are not being honoured; and if he will make a...
- Industrial Development (7 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-sponsored client visits to the IDA land at Ballingarrane, Clonmel in 2023 and 2024; the steps the IDA will take to...
- Work Permits (7 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cause of the high volume of refunds of employment permit applications and the resultant processing delays; and if he will make a...
- National Minimum Wage (7 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reverse his decision to delay the implementation of the living wage until 2029; if he will commit to ensuring that low-paid...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Business Supports (7 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the cost of business forum, which was announced in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on...
- Official Engagements (16 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the interactions he or his Department have had with the owner of a business (details supplied) since taking office; and if he will make...
- Small and Medium Enterprises (7 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to promote the participation of Irish SMEs in EU important projects of common European interest;...
- Business Supports (17 speeches)
11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to cases whereby businesses that qualify for the increased cost of business grant and power up grant...
- Work Permits (7 speeches)
12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the process being put in place to fulfil the programme for Government commitment to "Examine ways to...
- Business Supports (7 speeches)
13. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the recently launched business energy upgrade scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21239/25]
- Company Registration (7 speeches)
14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the primary operational difficulties that have arisen due to failures in the IT system at the Companies Registration Office, CRO,...
- Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (37 speeches)
I ask the Minister to lead.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (52 speeches)
Is náireach plean an Rialtais beagnach €500,000 a íoc leis an sár tithíochta nua chun post a roinnt leis an Aire tithíochta. Tá an pobal iontach feargach mar...
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (10 speeches)
We are having technical issues.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (42 speeches)
People are struggling under relentless cost-of-living crises. Despite that, the Tánaiste's Government has decided to increase carbon taxes. It is going to heap more pressure on workers and...
- Restoration of Private Members' Bills: Motion [Private Members] (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...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- School Meals Programme (7 speeches)
81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware of concerns raised about the nutritional value of school meals; if he has considered utilising non-profit...
- Children in Care (6 speeches)
82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will report on the social welfare supports available to young people leaving State care, who may be at risk of...
- Social Welfare Payments (6 speeches)
83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that there is a disparity in the assessment of child maintenance across different forms of supports; if he will...
- Disabilities Assessments (7 speeches)
84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will update the Dáil on the work his Department has carried out in designing a cost of disability payment, as...
- Care Services (7 speeches)
85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the commitment in the programme for Government to increase the income disregards for carer’s allowance...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Payments (9 speeches)
88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of enterprises in receipt of the wage subsidy scheme to support employment of those with disabilities; the number...
- Social Welfare Schemes (8 speeches)
87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will remove inconsistencies and anomalies in the current jobseeker's allowance scheme which discourage people from...
- Social Welfare Schemes (5 speeches)
89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the transitional supports being put in place for the 380 people whose one-parent family payment and half-rate carer’s...
- Social Welfare Schemes (19 speeches)
91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the means test for carer’s allowance will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20503/25]
- Employment Support Services (7 speeches)
93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline the range of back-to-work supports available to jobseekers in County Offaly; the measures being taken to...
- Social Welfare Payments (5 speeches)
95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that his Department will be the lead on the introduction of a permanent annual cost of disability support payment;...
- Social Welfare Benefits (8 speeches)
97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an examination of improvements to key ancillary benefits such as the fuel allowance, household benefits package and living...
- Pension Provisions (6 speeches)
103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people that have been added to the family carer register under the long-term carers contribution scheme; the...
- Rural Schemes (6 speeches)
99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to provide increased flexibility in the rural social scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21421/25]
- School Meals Programme (9 speeches)
104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for details of the review into the hot school meals programme. [21369/25]
- International Workers’ Day: Statements (18 speeches)
As Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, I am extremely proud to address Dáil Éireann today on International Workers’ Day to recognise the important role of workers to...
- 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 Gary Gannon - To discuss the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Housing Schemes (9 speeches)
On Tuesday, the Taoiseach said in this Chamber that he could not understand how €20 million had already been allocated for Cork City Council for the tenant in situ scheme. He could not...
- Primary Care Centres (4 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State for being here to discuss the Topical Issue concerning the need for primary care services for my constituency of Dublin Fingal West which is, as I am sure the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists (5 speeches)
Bogfaidh muid ar aghaidh go dtí ceist Uimh. 4 atá in ainm an Teachta Rory Hearne. Sula nglaoim ar an Teachta, cuirim fáilte roimh Erin, Caolán agus Aisling. Tá...
- Tourism Industry (4 speeches)
Skellig Michael, or Sceilg Mhichíl, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996. The rock on which monks lived, worked and prayed hundreds of years ago is named after the Archangel...
- Hospital Procedures (2 speeches)
This is an important issue. The irony of two men discussing a women's health issue is not lost on me. I thank Dr. Gerry Agnew, a consultant gynaecologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Dún...
