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Official Report latest update:

Today, 18 Feb 2025: 3 topics were published, which include 21 speakers and 0 divisions of the House.

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Thu, 13 Feb 2025: 5 topics were published, which include 55 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, 13 Feb 2025: 288 Parliamentary Questions answered.

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Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage

Question put:

[13 February 2025]

  • Tá (38 votes cast)
  • Níl (13 votes cast)

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A day in the life | Debates

In producing the Official Report they work with many other sections in the Service, taking in committees, parliamentary questions and political staff.

Parliamentary reporter Cian Fitzsimons describes a typical day for him in Leinster House reporting the debate in Dáil Éireann.

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Since 1922, the Debates Office has been tasked with producing and publishing the Official Report of Oireachtas proceedings, including the physical bound volumes of debate.

Take a closer look at the Official Report as the office reaches a milestone in the production of its bound volumes.

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

The Twenty-seventh Seanad first met on 12 February 2025.

Women on juries, 5 March 1924

Notable Debates

Women on juries, 5 March 1924

“In this country the number of women who desire to serve on juries is very small, and in practice the insertion of women's names in the Jury Book leads to nothing but trouble.”

– Kevin O'Higgins

EEC membership, 21 March 1972

Notable debates

EEC membership, 21 March 1972

“Surely it is self-evident that if we were to remain outside the Community we would be conferring on the Border the status of a frontier, both economic and political, between ourselves and the rest of Europe.”

—Jack Lynch

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