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Official Report latest update:

Thu, 6 Feb 2025: 10 topics were published, which include 116 speakers and 0 divisions of the House.

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Thu, 7 Nov 2024: 16 topics were published, which include 30 speakers and 0 divisions of the House.

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Meeting of the Committee Of Public Accounts on Thu, 7 Nov 2024.

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Thu, 6 Feb 2025: 274 Parliamentary Questions answered.

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Question put: "That the proposed arrangements for the week's business be agreed to."

[05 February 2025]

  • Tá (97 votes cast)
  • Níl (72 votes cast)
  • Staon (0)

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The Thirty-fourth Dáil first met on 18 December 2024.

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Assassination of the Vice President, 12 July 1927

“It has been the fate of this country, perhaps more than others, to see torn from her ruthlessly devoted sons of great achievement and greater promise while the flowers of their service were yet hardly unfolded.”

William T.Cosgrave

Family Planning Bill 1973

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Family Planning Bill 1973

“I make this final appeal: let us as Senators confer on ourselves the jurisdiction to debate what every other forum in the country has debated. Let us not shirk the issue.”

Mary Robinson

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