Seanad debates
Thursday, 2 February 2023
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Cathaoirleach i gceannas ar 9:30:00
- Teachtaireacht ón Dáil - Message from Dáil (1 speech)
Dáil Éireann passed the Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023 on 1 February 2023, to which the agreement of Seanad Éireann is desired.
- Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (1 speech)
I have received notice from the following Senators that they propose to raise the following matters: Senator John McGahon - the need for the Minister for Education to make a statement on the...
- Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters (0 speeches)
- School Accommodation (5 speeches)
The Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, is welcome to the House.
- Medicinal Products (5 speeches)
The next Commencement matter is an issue I too as a Member have raised on a number of occasions on the floor of the Seanad and I commend the Senator on raising it today.
- Medicinal Products (7 speeches)
l raise an issue in respect of which Senator Ahearn campaigned all through last year in order to make sure that the product in question was on the funding list. It is now on the funding list but...
- Tax Code (5 speeches)
I congratulate the Minister of State on her elevation to office. In 2019, the Houses of the Oireachtas passed the usual Finance Act, allowing for regulations of taxation, stamp duties and duties...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (54 speeches)
The Order of Business today is No. 1, motion regarding the arrangements for the sitting of the House on Wednesday, 8 February, 2023, to be taken on conclusion of the Order of Business without...
- Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (1 speech)
Before we move to the next item of business, I congratulate, on my behalf and that of all Members of the House, our colleague and friend, Senator Paddy Burke, who 30 years ago this week was...
- Sitting Arrangements: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, or the Order of the Seanad of Tuesday 31st, January, 2023, the Seanad on its rising on Thursday, 2nd February, 2023, shall stand...
- Report of Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That the Nineteenth Report of the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight on the amendment of Standing Orders 19 and 65 and temporary amendment of Standing Order 22 be...
- Establishment of Special Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders— (1) A Special Committee consisting of 5 members of Seanad Éireann be appointed, to be joined with a Special Committee to...
- Appointment of Ordinary Member to Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That Seanad Éireann, in accordance with section 8(3)(b) of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003, as amended, appoints Senator Paddy Burke to be an ordinary member of...
- Family Courts Bill 2023: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
- Family Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 speeches)
Question proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas (0 speeches)
Tar éis do Dháil Éireann agus do Sheanad Éireann rún a rith, tháinig an dá Theach le chéile i Seomra na Dála ar 2 p.m., an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas....
- Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (27 speeches)
It is not often we have a welcome like that extended to a visitor. A Oirircis, Roberta Metsola, Uachtarán Pharlaimint na hEorpa, thar ceann Chomhaltaí an dá Theach agus thar mo...