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Dáil Éireann

Official Report latest update:

Thu, 7 Mar 2024: 37 topics were published, which include 123 speakers and 0 divisions of the House.

Seanad Éireann

Official Report latest update:

Thu, 7 Mar 2024: 11 topics were published, which include 21 speakers and 0 divisions of the House.

Committees

Official Report latest update:

Meeting of the Comhchoiste Na Gaeilge, Na Gaeltachta Agus Phobal Labhartha Na Gaeilge on Fri, 8 Mar 2024.

PQs (Questions)

Official Report latest update:

Thu, 7 Mar 2024: 439 Parliamentary Questions answered.

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When are debates published?

Dáil debates are published incrementally throughout a sitting day. All proceedings before 7pm are published before midnight, and the remainder are added the following day. Replies to questions tabled by Members for written response by Ministers are published at the end of each day's Dáil proceedings.

Seanad debates are published on the same day or the next day. The Official Report of each committee meeting is published within a week at latest, but generally within two or three working days.

Most recent vote

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)

Amendment put:

[07 March 2024]

  • Tá (2 votes cast)
  • Níl (6 votes cast)

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.

Official Report | Vol.1000

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.

Equal franchise, 2 March 1922

Notable debates

Equal franchise, 2 March 1922

“I have a vote myself now to send men and women to the Dáil, and I wish to have that privilege extended to the young women of Ireland, whom I count in every way as my superiors.”

—Countess de Markievicz

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

Utterances having an adverse effect

If you consider that you have been adversely affected by an utterance in the Dáil, Seanad or an Oireachtas Committee, there is a process you can follow to address this.

Dáil and Seanad terms

The 33nd Dáil first met on 20 February 2020. The 26th Seanad met for the first time on 29 June 2020.

Get the start and end dates of all the Dáil and Seanad terms since the foundation of the State.

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