Dáil debates
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 14.00
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (64 speeches)
Cuirim fáilte roimh Bridie McNally, who is here with us today. It is her birthday and she is here with a group of very lively women from County Monaghan. Fáilte agus breithlá...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (167 speeches)
I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion re Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Defence Forces Tribunal of Inquiry) Regulations 2025 (without debate and any division claimed to be...
- Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Defence Forces Tribunal of Inquiry) Regulations 2025: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Defence Forces Tribunal of Inquiry) Regulations 2025; a copy of...
- Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2025: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2025, a copy of which has been...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Cabinet Committees (39 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [22233/25]
- Cabinet Committees (48 speeches)
14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will next meet. [25318/25]
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (39 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to bring the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025 before the House today. Members will recall the size of the...
- Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (116 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes: — comments by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless T.D. on RTÉ where he...
- Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration has completed its consideration of the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025 and has made no amendments thereto.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Third Level Fees (13 speeches)
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on developments from his and the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage's refusal to provide a second-year...
- Third Level Fees (7 speeches)
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the programme for Government commitment to continue to reduce the student contribution fee over the lifetime of the Government,...
- Departmental Bodies (7 speeches)
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for information on the decision behind the cut of €1.3 million from SOLAS to the Tipperary Education and Training Board, which has resulted...
- Apprenticeship Programmes (6 speeches)
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protections his Department can give to apprentices to ensure they receive the agreed wage and are doing work relevant to their...
- Third Level Education (7 speeches)
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will create a centralised third level information hub for students. [37814/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (3 speeches)
Táimid críochnaithe leis sin. Rachaimid ar aghaidh le ceisteanna eile chun an Aire. Tá Ceist Uimh. 101 i m’ainm. Táim ag iarraidh é a chur siar. If Members are...
- Apprenticeship Programmes (6 speeches)
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a renewed action plan to succeed the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025; if the new action plan will have a focus on...
- Further and Higher Education (6 speeches)
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that SOLAS is in receipt of sufficient funding from the State to ensure that it can deliver on its annual service plan and...
- Third Level Fees (17 speeches)
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the means by which he intends to implement the programme for Government commitments regarding the cost of third level education; and if he will...
- Apprenticeship Programmes (9 speeches)
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress made regarding the funding issues at SOLAS and ETB apprenticeship training programmes; and if he will make a...
- Apprenticeship Programmes (8 speeches)
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the uptake of the supports to help to achieve a better gender balance in apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Third Level Education (6 speeches)
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of the increases in the SUSI grant levels introduced in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37308/25]
- Education and Training Boards (6 speeches)
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the funding cut to apprenticeships in Meath and across the State; his assessment of the practical impact of this cut; the...
- Further and Higher Education (4 speeches)
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a detailed plan on how the National Training Fund will be expanded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37309/25]
- 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 Pádraig O'Sullivan - To...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Special Educational Needs (5 speeches)
St. Mary of the Angels and St. Francis Special School in Beaufort in the heart of County Kerry is a very special place. The special needs community in Kerry has a major respite crisis. The...
- Special Educational Needs (4 speeches)
My question relates specifically to the ask for a new special school in Dublin 1. In response to a recent parliamentary question, which I submitted to the HSE about the number of children's...
- Primary Care Services (4 speeches)
The figures released by the HSE this week to my colleague, Deputy Quaide, reveal a truly shocking level of waiting times for essential primary care services for children. My constituency of...
- Humanitarian Access (4 speeches)
It is 11.45 p.m. now and it is right and proper that we are discussing the situation in Gaza. With our long-standing commitment to human rights and neutrality in global conflicts, Ireland is...
- Early Childhood Care and Education (5 speeches)
Before I speak on the substantive issue, I commend and thank my colleague, Deputy Crowe, for raising the previous issue and add my support to it. We need to do all we possibly can and more to...
