Dáil debates
Thursday, 30 April 2026
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach (Deputy David Maxwell) i gceannas ar 08:47 a.m.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Public Services Card (7 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on any plans to expand the use of a digital ID; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31202/26]
- Pension Provisions (7 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the action he will take to ensure that vulnerable individuals are not left without access to an invalidity pension for months...
- Cost of Living Issues (7 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has given consideration to an emergency cost-of-living payment to vulnerable households at risk of poverty; and if he...
- Social Welfare Code (7 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the commitment to introduce a cost-of-disability payment; the current status of policy development and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Benefits (6 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm that consideration will be given to an automatic entitlement to the fuel allowance where a member of the household...
- Child Poverty (7 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on child poverty figures and the effectiveness of his Department's measures to reduce child poverty. [31238/26]
- Social Welfare Benefits (7 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for urgent needs payments in Cork in the first three months of each of the years 2019, 2025 and 2026...
- Social Welfare Benefits (6 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will report on the introduction of pay-related benefit in March 2025 linking unemployment payments to previous earnings;...
- Social Welfare Appeals (9 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number and percentage of disability allowance decisions that are appealed; the number and percentage of decisions that are...
- Pensions Reform (5 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the required additional funding has been provided to social welfare branch managers to pay for pension auto enrolment costs...
- Social Welfare Schemes (6 speeches)
11. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of paying carers who care for two or more people, based on a full carer’s allowance in...
- Pension Provisions (6 speeches)
13. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will increase his departmental budget allocation in budget 2027 to those in receipt of the State pension, in response to...
- Parental Leave (7 speeches)
14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in the context of the programme for Government commitment to examine the extension of parents’ leave and benefit,...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Road Safety (11 speeches)
96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to improve road safety; the reasons road deaths have risen by 31% since 2019 while road deaths across the EU...
- Electric Vehicles (7 speeches)
97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the zero-emissions heavy duty vehicle purchase grant and zero-emissions heavy duty vehicle infrastructure grant schemes,...
- Rail Network (7 speeches)
98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the new Irish Rail traffic management IT system; the measures he is taking to address cost overruns and delays; when he...
- Public Transport (6 speeches)
99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the DART will not be operational again this May bank holiday weekend for the VHI mini-marathon, an event that attracts...
- Bus Services (20 speeches)
100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to end the 70 bus route resulting in people in the Littlepace area having to change buses to go to Dublin city centre; if...
- Public Transport (8 speeches)
101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the DART+ South West project; the progress to date; the way in which the project may be expedited; and if he will make a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Bus Services (7 speeches)
102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the roll-out of the planned inner orbital O route as part of the BusConnects project; and if he will make a statement on...
- Air Services (8 speeches)
103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the timeline for the long-awaited restoration of the Derry to Dublin airlink. [29785/26]
- Public Transport (8 speeches)
104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public transport options to Dubin Airport for the people of Dublin Mid-West; if additional routes are being considered; and if he...
- Public Transport (9 speeches)
105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding for increased car parking facilities in Carlow and Muine Bheag train stations in Carlow; and if he will make a...
- Electric Vehicles (8 speeches)
106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the findings of a research paper (details supplied); if he has engaged with the Minister for Climate; Energy and the...
- Public Transport (11 speeches)
107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek substantial additional investment in public transport so that more services can be rapidly rolled out in response to the...
- Taxi Regulations (7 speeches)
108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of ongoing reports of wheelchair users being refused service by wheelchair accessible taxis in Dublin, particularly at...
- Public Transport (4 speeches)
110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to improve public transport connectivity in County Offaly, particularly in rural areas where services remain...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (44 speeches)
We now move to Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 38. I call Deputy Doherty.
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (4 speeches)
I want to raise the ongoing and deeply frustrating situation facing retired CIÉ pensioners in County Louth and across the country, many of whom have not received any pension increase since...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (44 speeches)
I too want to be associated with the words about Brigid McGlynn and thank her for her many years of service to this House and to all who served here. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are...
- Supports for Hauliers and Supply Chains: Statements (23 speeches)
I welcome the Minister for Transport, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Canney.
- 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 Michael Cahill - To discuss...
- Supports for Hauliers and Supply Chains: Statements (Resumed) (4 speeches)
I thank the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, on whose behalf I am closing this debate, for outlining the detail of the road transporters support scheme to the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Housing Schemes (4 speeches)
I welcome our guests in the Gallery. I will say this because I say it every time - and I do not in any way mean this to be disrespectful of the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins, as I am...
- Special Educational Needs (6 speeches)
I wish to raise the issue of the appeals' process in the allocation of special needs assistants, SNAs, in the context of the treatment meted out to St. Aidan's primary school in Enniscorthy in...
- School Enrolments (4 speeches)
I was due to speak on the need for an additional class between the three schools on Green Lane in Leixlip. Those three schools are Scoil Bhríde, Scoil Mhuire and Scoil Eoin Phóil. I...
- National Monuments (4 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter, which relates to the Martello tower in Sandymount. The Minister of State will be familiar with Martello towers located across Dublin Bay. I...
- Message from the Standing Business Committee of Dáil Éireann (1 speech)
The Standing Business Committee of Dáil Éireann has completed its consideration under Standing Order 30 of the request by Deputy John Brady to waive the requirement for scrutiny of the...
- Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Voting Rights in Presidential Elections) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to be able to introduce this Bill in the House today. It is a good-news story. The Bill simply seeks to extend the...
