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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: The Minister was just talking about capacity issues. One of the big things in terms of capacity is to make sure we have the workforce that can build the different projects that we need, particularly when it comes to accommodation needs. That is why I would like the Minister to outline what progress is being made at the moment with regard to the current challenges in the apprenticeship...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: I found the discussion really interesting and informative. It has brought home the need to plan for the future. There have been important discussions in this committee about looking at an all Ireland health or social protection system. The shared island unit does important work but it has only been tinkering around the edges. There was a suggestion of a Department and a Green Paper to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: In its submission, the ESRI stated that productivity in both economies, North and South, is on a par in 2000. Over the past 20 years or so, it increased here and decreased there. As a result, the gap got wider. Dr. Bergin said some things could be done immediately like low-hanging fruit to address that. She said it is to do with educational attainment and a lack of investment. Both need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: It is a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation. Many graduates in the North go to other jurisdictions to take up work or for education and do not return. To get investment in the North, you need graduates and people with high educational attainment. Which comes first to attract graduates back?

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

The following motion was moved by Deputy Eoin Ó Broin on Tuesday, 21 May 2024:

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: - (Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Alan Dillon)

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion on housing. On Tuesday, 21 May 2024, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 61; Níl, 49; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Joe Flaherty, Charles Flanagan, Seán Fleming, Brendan Griffin, Seán Haughey, Martin...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Amendment declared carried.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." The Dáil divided: Tá, 61; Níl, 50; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Joe Flaherty, Charles Flanagan, Seán Fleming, Brendan Griffin, Seán Haughey, Martin...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Question declared carried.

Message from Select Committee (22 May 2024)

Message from Select Committee (22 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023 and has made amendments thereto.

Message from Select Committee (22 May 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 4.41 p.m. go dtí 9 a.m., Déardaoin, an 23 Bealtaine 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 4.41 p.m. until 9 a.m. on Thursday, 23 May 2024.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I expect to have the legal advice by the time the Bill goes to the Seanad. On a second point, it is not just the UK. There was a similar increase in the take-up of occupational pensions in New Zealand and Australia. I expect that will be the case here.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Amendment put and declared lost.

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Systems Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (22 May 2024)

Bill, as amended, received for final consideration.