# leaders-questions - Thursday 12 May, 2022
# Housing Crisis
# Housing Crisis
Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty says rents are out of control.
# leaders-questions - Tuesday 26 April, 2022
Independent TD Mattie McGrath said Martin was drinking too much green tea and that it had gone to his head.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 31 March, 2022
# Energy Prices
Time-of-day pricing is where the price of electricity is less expensive at night than during the daytime as there is less demand. A package of measures to help with the rising cost of energy will be announced in the coming weeks. Minister Eamon Ryan says we cannot rule out LNG as an option.
# leaders-questions - Tuesday 29 March, 2022
# Cost Of Living
# Cost Of Living
Mary Lou McDonald has called for a 0% VAT rate for a period of time on domestic energy bills.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 9 March, 2022
# Leaders' Questions
# Leaders' Questions
Micheál Martin says they are working with the EU to see if there can be greater flexibility.
# leaders-questions - Tuesday 8 March, 2022
# Neutrality
# Neutrality
TD Richard Boyd Barrett said he was concerned about recent calls for greater cooperation with NATO.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 24 February, 2022
# Cost Of Living
# Cost Of Living
“The lights won’t go out,” Leo Varadkar told the Dáil today.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 23 February, 2022
# Across The Floor
# Across The Floor
Both Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil brought up events of the past.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 17 February, 2022
# Nphet
# Nphet
Public health officials advised the government of the move following a meeting today.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 3 February, 2022
# Inflation
# Inflation
The Cabinet sub committee on economic recovery will meet next week to discuss the rising cost of living in Ireland.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 2 February, 2022
# Leaders' Questions
# Leaders' Questions
Micheál Martin said record sums of money have been given to the HSE and to CHI.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 26 January, 2022
# Argy Bargy
# Argy Bargy
Leader’ Questions got heated today with the Taoiseach and Mary Lou McDonald hitting out at each other over housing issues.
# leaders-questions - Tuesday 25 January, 2022
# Cost Of Living
# Cost Of Living
‘I honestly don’t think you’re living in the real world,’ Labour leader Alan Kelly told the Taoiseach today.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 19 January, 2022
# Gender-based Violence
# Gender-based Violence
Tributes were also paid to Ashling Murphy, who was laid to rest in Offaly yesterday
# leaders-questions - Tuesday 7 December, 2021
# Freezing Classrooms
# Freezing Classrooms
Mary Lou McDonald says children and teachers are left freezing in classrooms as windows must be left open.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 17 November, 2021
# Leaders' Questions
# Leaders' Questions
Micheal Martin has denied that he said teachers would be exempt from Covid-19 isolation rules.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 11 November, 2021
# Donegal
# Donegal
The report’s publication has been delayed following a dispute between the HSE, gardaí and the report’s authors.
# leaders-questions - Tuesday 9 November, 2021
# Housing
# Housing
It was reported at the weekend that two ministers may attend housing ‘roadshows’.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 21 October, 2021
# R116
# R116
Eamon Ryan has told families of the victims of the Irish Coast Guard helicopter R116 crash that the Government will cover their legal costs.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 20 October, 2021
# Mica
# Mica
The children said all they want is to feel safe in their homes.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 29 September, 2021
# Scandalous
# Scandalous
The Sinn Féin leader said it was “scandalous” that such a low number will be delivered in 2021.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 16 September, 2021
Varadkar said the Department of Housing has also received requests from local authorities in Sligo, Clare, Limerick and Tipperary to engage in the Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 15 September, 2021
# Leaders' Questions
# Leaders' Questions
The Taoiseach said a “close eye” will be kept on colleges and what they charge in for rent.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 8 July, 2021
# Housing
# Housing
Catherine Murphy said leasing properties from funds was “an abuse of public money”.
# leaders-questions - Tuesday 29 June, 2021
# 'absolutely Bananas'
# 'absolutely Bananas'
Opposition TDs have called on the government to rescind its decision, describing it as “absolutely bananas”.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 17 June, 2021
# Maternity Care
# Maternity Care
The Tánaiste has said there are “problems, quite frankly, in going forward with this project”.
# leaders-questions - Tuesday 15 June, 2021
# Vaccination
# Vaccination
The HSE chief said it is planned that the second doses of AstraZeneca will be completed by 19 July.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 2 June, 2021
# Rent Protections
# Rent Protections
Opposition says government must ensure that all renters – not just those that fall under the Covid-19 protections – are not hit with an 8% rent hike.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 29 April, 2021
# Taxi Drivers
# Taxi Drivers
Richard Boyd Barrett told the Tánaiste the drivers were “threatened with fines”.
Róisín Shortall said the transfer of patronage was ‘a snail-paced programme’.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 28 April, 2021
# Covid19
# Covid19
Martin said the HSE’s modelling is still based on delivering 450,000 doses per week by the middle of June.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 22 April, 2021
# Out Of Work
# Out Of Work
Labour’s Aodhán Ó Riordán said the country can’t afford to lose another generation.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 21 April, 2021
# Chop Chop
# Chop Chop
The Cabinet is due to meet next Tuesday and Thursday before signing off on plans for the easing of restrictions in May.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 1 April, 2021
# Leaders' Questions
# Leaders' Questions
A delivery of 112,000 vaccines were delivered last night, said Varadkar.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 3 March, 2021
# Leaders' Questions
# Leaders' Questions
Government says it’s on target to give first dose to 72,000 over-85s by the end of the first week of March.
# Illegal Adoption
# Illegal Adoption
The review was commissioned in 2018 but its publication was delayed.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 18 February, 2021
# Mother And Baby
# Mother And Baby
The Tánasite said he could not make a commitment today that it would be extended beyond 28 February.
# leaders-questions - Thursday 11 February, 2021
Tensions were running high during Leaders’ Questions.
# leaders-questions - Wednesday 10 February, 2021
# CervicalCheck
# CervicalCheck
His comments come after reports that the tribunal has yet to receive a single claim, more than two months after it started its work.
# Pension Age Rise
# Pension Age Rise
Mary Lou McDonald said the plan would cost individuals more than 2,000 euro a year.
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