Dáil debates
Thursday, 24 October 2024
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.00 a.m.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Mother and Baby Homes (7 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider looking at the criteria to apply for redress under the mother and baby institutions payment...
- Early Childhood Care and Education (7 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the joint labour committee will meet, following the announcement of funding for a pay increase for early...
- Childcare Services (7 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of foster carers in 2014; the number today; the measures he will take to encourage people to become...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Child Protection (8 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify a statement in a press release by his Department on 23 September 2024 that ratifying the second...
- Disability Services (7 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on children’s disability network teams in Mayo, including staff vacancies, recruitment...
- Early Childhood Care and Education (7 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the publication of the early childhood care and education review; and if he will make a...
- Disability Services (7 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider undertaking a stakeholder review of the Progressing Disability Services model; and if he will...
- Rights of People with Disabilities (10 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be formally...
- Disability Services (7 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reasons for the delays in accessing augmentative and alternative communication through children’s...
- Child Care Law Reporting Project (13 speeches)
11. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will estimate the length of time for which there will be no reporting on childcare cases in light of the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
- Child and Family Agency (8 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Tusla has stopped using the services of a company (details supplied); if so, when it stopped; to provide...
- Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
- Departmental Budgets (11 speeches)
12. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied with the funding allocated to the youth sector in budget 2025; and if he will make a statement...
- Library Services (6 speeches)
13. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the My Little Library book programme for young children; and if he will make a statement...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
Questions Nos. 54 and 55 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Job Losses (7 speeches)
57. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has met with persons (details supplied) who are soon to be made redundant by their company; and if he will make a statement on...
- Business Supports (10 speeches)
61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce a new wave of supports, beyond power-up grants, for businesses that are struggling to meet additional operational...
- Small and Medium Enterprises (7 speeches)
56. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to address the challenges facing SMEs. [43436/24]
- Small and Medium Enterprises (7 speeches)
59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how his Department plans to address the difficulties facing small businesses as costs rise but profits do not; and if he will make a...
- Regional Development (8 speeches)
64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he continues to encourage investment in jobs in both manufacturing and services throughout the regions, given the...
- Social Enterprise Sector (9 speeches)
65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will amend eligibility criteria to enable social enterprises to access local enterprise office and Enterprise Ireland supports....
- Services Sector (8 speeches)
66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans to address the issue of dynamic pricing in both the hotel and live performance ticketing industries; and to provide a list...
- Enterprise Support Services (8 speeches)
68. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans to develop the structure under which local enterprise offices operate so that centres of excellence could be...
- Enterprise Support Services (8 speeches)
71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of the importance of developing enterprise centres and workspaces, a new scheme of grant aid will be introduced to assist...
- Visit of President of Mayors for Peace (1 speech)
I ask colleagues to join me in extending a warm céad míle fáilte, 100,000 welcomes, to Mr. Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of Hiroshima, who is in Ireland as president of the Mayors for Peace...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (62 speeches)
Bheadh aon duine a bhí ag léamh na bpáipéar ar maidin buailte leis na scéalta tithíochta agus an méid scéalta atá ann. Insíonn gach ceann acu a...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (52 speeches)
Ordinary motorists struggling with the cost-of-living crisis are getting a raw deal from this Government and the hits keep on coming. The first hit was that the Government failed to rein in...
- Meastacháin i gcomhair Seirbhísí Poiblí 2024: Teachtaireacht ó Roghchoiste (1 speech)
Tá Roghchoiste na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge tar éis a bhreithniú a chríochnú ar na Meastacháin Fhorlíontacha i gcomhair...
- Family Courts Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to introduce the Family Courts Bill in this House today. Bringing this Bill before Dáil Éireann represents a major...
- 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 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To...
- Family Courts Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Visit of Filipino Delegation (1 speech)
Cuirim céad míle fáilte roimh an toscaireacht speisialta ó Theach na n-Ionadaithe Phoblacht na nOileán Filipíneach. Tá an toscaireacht anseo inár...
- Family Courts Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Estimates for Public Services 2024: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed is consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Special Educational Needs (12 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State for being here. This saga has been going on for a number of years. As he knows, I am our party's spokesperson on special education and have an interest in this...
- School Accommodation (5 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State for being and for dealing with that matter. The second item I have selected is from Deputy Donnelly, who wishes to discuss the decision to relocate Ériu...
- School Staff (9 speeches)
I have been contacted by the principal, staff members and parents of students at St. Mary's Boys' National School in Belturbet, County Cavan. They are reaching out to me and to other...
- Regional Development (10 speeches)
Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív wishes to discuss with the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the need for balanced economic investment in the...
- Primary Care Centres (4 speeches)
The Government's plan to roll out primary care centres across the country is a necessity. With regard to an area in my constituency of Dublin North-West that encompasses Santry, Whitehall and...
- Bus Services (4 speeches)
I wish to raise with the Minister of State the issue of the No. 11 bus, but not so much its future because that is starting to look very unlikely under the current plans. I am conscious that...
- Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (1 speech)
Seanad Éireann has passed the Maternity Protection, Employment Equality and Preservation of Certain Records Bill 2024 without amendment.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla (Atógáil) - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed) (0 speeches)
- Heritage Sites (13 speeches)
The seventh item selected comes from Deputy Bernard Durkan, who wishes to discuss the urgent need to restore access to Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, which is in State ownership. ...
- Coastal Protection (11 speeches)
Deputy Pringle has waited with great patience.
- Equitable Beef Pricing Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Farming in this country is in crisis at the moment. I do not make that statement lightly. The recent report by Teagasc confirms that farm...
