Dáil debates
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 14.00
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (109 speeches)
We have had more than a decade of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael presiding over a housing emergency and now the Government proposes to force ripped-off renters to carry the can for its failures....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (101 speeches)
I move: Tuesday's business shall be:-- Motion re Presentation and Circulation of Revised and Second Further Revised Estimates [Votes 11 to 19, 23, 24, 26 to 30, 32 to 34, 39, 42 and 43] (without...
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Vótála i dToghcháin Uachtaráin), 2025: An Chéad Chéim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Voting Rights in Presidential Elections) Bill 2025: First Stage (5 speeches)
Tairigim: Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution....
- Presentation and Circulation of Revised and Second Further Revised Estimates: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 222 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business or the Resolutions of the Dáil of 1st April, 2025 and 21st...
- Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Financial Resolution (1 speech)
I move: That the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 be amended in the manner and to the extent specified in the Act giving effect to this Resolution to provide that amounts to be paid on the bereaved...
- Third Report of the Standing Committee of Selection: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to Standing Order 33, and with effect from 18th June, 2025, approves the Third Report of the Standing Committee of Selection, copies of which were...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Cabinet Committees (26 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach when the climate action plan progress reports for the remainder of 2024 will be published by his Department. [16740/25]
- Departmental Reports (29 speeches)
9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on his Department’s interdepartmental group report on the Dublin city task force recommendations. [22232/25]
- National Security (22 speeches)
17. To ask the Taoiseach the role the new ministerial council on national security has in developing measures to tackle cyberthreats; how these will be delivered; and if he will make a statement...
- Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (29 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The local property tax is due for revaluation on 1 November of this year. I am introducing this Bill to make a number of important changes...
- Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (74 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the housing and homelessness crisis is getting worse; — house prices, rents, council waiting lists and homelessness are all...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Early Childhood Care and Education (7 speeches)
71. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she is taking to retain early years educators in the sector, and therefore retain capacity; and if she...
- Disability Services (7 speeches)
72. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the current unfilled positions in CDNTs across the State; to outline her plans to deliver...
- Disabilities Assessments (7 speeches)
73. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions she has taken to date to reduce the assessment of need waiting list; and if she will make a statement...
- Childcare Services (9 speeches)
74. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding the gradual reduction of childcare costs as committed to in the programme for Government; the steps she...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
Question No. 75 taken with Written Answers.
- Disability Services (15 speeches)
76. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she is taking to ensure that children with disabilities receive early intervention and treatment; and...
- Disability Services (8 speeches)
77. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which parents of adult children with a disability are consulted with regard to a future plan for...
- Childcare Services (8 speeches)
78. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new childcare providers who have entered the sector in each of the past five years; the number of...
- Childcare Services (8 speeches)
79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to address the shortage of after-school childcare places in the mid-Cork region; and if...
- Childcare Services (7 speeches)
80. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding Tusla services in County Clare, the number of social workers employed; the number of vacancies for...
- Childcare Services (11 speeches)
81. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps taken to reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month, to date in 2025; and if she will make a...
- Disability Services (6 speeches)
82. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on her Department’s work on the implementation of the UNCRPD. [32481/25]
- Health Services (10 speeches)
83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for plans and an indicative timeline of implementation for a community neuro-rehabilitation team for the...
- 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 Louis O'Hara - To discuss the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Child Protection (4 speeches)
I appreciate the Minister coming in this evening to take this Topical Issue matter. He will be aware that earlier during the Order of Business, I raised this issue with the Taoiseach, but such...
- European Union (4 speeches)
As the Minister of State will know, on 23 June 2021 the Hungarian Parliament passed a law significantly curbing the rights of members of the LGBTQI+ community in Hungary. As it came into effect...
- International Protection (4 speeches)
The residents of Saggart, Citywest, Rathcoole and adjacent areas today got a huge slap in the face. In very arrogant, dismissive behaviour by the Government, it issued a press statement and then...
- Further and Higher Education (4 speeches)
Community training centres, CTCs, provide an excellent education to young people in second chance education. There are 31 community training centres located around the country. Young people...
- Schools Refurbishment (4 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State for staying to this late hour to take this question about Coláiste Bhríde in Carnew, Wicklow. This is a progressive secondary school of almost 1,000...
