Leinster House
The name of the building of the Oireachtas where the Dail and the Seanad sit. It is located on Kildare St. in Dublin.
# leinster-house - Yesterday’s News
Oireachtas agenda: Abortion hearings, new grocery rules and leaving the euro
The third day of abortion hearings takes place today, while the Dáil debates calls for new rules on leaving the eurozone.
# leinster-house - Thursday 16 May, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Taxi regulation, garda salaries and women’s rights
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan is due before the Public Accounts Committee today.
# leinster-house - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Mortgage repossession, Northern Ireland and Seanad reform
Senators will vote today on whether to approve proposals that would give all citizens a vote in Seanad elections.
# leinster-house - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Coillte sale, taxi laws and 15 years of Good Friday
A Sinn Féin motion debated tonight will call for the ‘re-energisation’ of the Northern Ireland peace process.
# leinster-house - Saturday 11 May, 2013
Fine Gael TDs on Twitter and free GP care : The week’s news skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Leinster House goes wild photocopying arses, free GP care for healthy citizens, and FG TDs insult each other for Twitter practice.
# leinster-house - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: TDs sign off on the World War II deserters’ amnesty
The process of pardoning Irish Army deserters who joined the Allies in World War II will be completed by TDs this evening.
# leinster-house - Thursday 2 May, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Changing council rents and scrapping VECs
Laws to merge and rationalise Ireland’s VEC sector will be among those polished off in Leinster House today.
# leinster-house - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Repossessions, organ donors and Euro counterfeiting
Aer Lingus CEO Christoph Mueller – who is about to take over as chairman of An Post – will also be in attendance today.
# leinster-house - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Repossessions, organ donors and selling the Lotto
Legislation clearing the way for banks to repossess more homes will get its first airing in the Dáil this evening.
# leinster-house - Thursday 25 April, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Fisheries, fodder crisis and HSE spending
HSE head-in-waiting Tony O’Brien – who often gets a lukewarm reception in Leinster House – will be back in today.
# leinster-house - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Generic drugs, selling the Lotto and Budget 2014
It’s a packed day in Leinster House – click through to find out what’s being debated in the Dail, Seanad and committees today.
# leinster-house - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Companies, public pay and the HSE board
Bill O’Herlihy will attend the Environment committee this afternoon to discuss his new job at the Irish Film Board.
# leinster-house - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Organ donation, terrorist financing and TV licences
The Public Accounts Committee will today examine how TV licence fees were distributed in 2011.
# leinster-house - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Lottery sale, credit records and public petitions
It’s a varied day of business in Leinster House, which has a packed committee schedule today.
# leinster-house - Tuesday 16 April, 2013
Helen McEntee describes first day in Dáil as “emotional”
The 26-year-old said it was “an honour” to take up the seat left vacant by her father, Shane.
Oireachtas agenda: Symphysiotomy, WW2 deserters, and new arrivals
The Dáil’s newest member, Helen McEntee, will be formally introduced to the chamber today.
# leinster-house - Monday 8 April, 2013
Leinster House staff given jiu-jitsu training to deter angry intruders Exclusive
19 Oireachtas ushers have been sent on a training course to prepare for any physical confrontation from the public.
# leinster-house - Saturday 6 April, 2013
‘Appalling’, ‘ghastly’ and ‘brutal’ – doctors describe symphysiotomy ordeal
Medical professionals from around the world have come out in support in Ireland’s symphysiotomy survivors. Here’s what they had to say.
# leinster-house - Thursday 28 March, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: CAP reform, credit histories and going dental
The first discussion on laws to create a new national, centralised credit register will take place in the Seanad today.
# leinster-house - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Alcohol sponsorship, court reporting and animal welfare
Representatives from three of the country’s most prominent sports bodies will discuss banning alcohol sponsorship today.
# leinster-house - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Medical cards, flood insurance and food labelling
Figures representing four of Ireland’s biggest grocery chains will be at the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
# leinster-house - Saturday 23 March, 2013
INFOGRAPHIC: How much energy could Earth Hour actually save?
Will you be turning off the lights at 8:30pm?
Lights on public buildings to be turned off for Earth Hour
The lights on Government Buildings, Leinster House and Customs House – among others – will be turned off at 8:30pm.
# leinster-house - Thursday 21 March, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Medical cards, childhood poverty and EU Youth Guarantee
The EU Affairs committee will be briefed on the European Youth Guarantee and its effects by interest groups today.
# leinster-house - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Medical cards, social media and transparency laws
The hearings on the effects of social media abuse resume at the Transport and Communications committee this morning.
# leinster-house - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Generic drugs and insurance for flood victims
It’s a light day in the Oireachtas today, with only two committee meetings being held.
# leinster-house - Thursday 14 March, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Horse meat, Gaeilge, and welfare spending
The Public Accounts Committee scrutinises the accounts of the Department of Social Protection this morning.
# leinster-house - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Hundreds of Travellers outside Dáil for anti-racism protest
A number of TDs have joined the movement at Leinster House today.
Oireachtas agenda: Budget 2013, water charges and cyber-bullying
The Dáil completes its consideration of the Finance Bill today, while the Seanad finalises the new water charges scheme.
# leinster-house - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Criminal records, job creation and childhood poverty
All of that, and the Seanad gets to reform the Dáil… here’s what’s happening today in Leinster House.
# leinster-house - Friday 8 March, 2013
Proposed Bill provides for first national strategy on autism
The Dáil will debate the proposed legislation today.
# leinster-house - Thursday 7 March, 2013
PHOTOS: Man threatens to set himself alight outside Leinster House
Kildare Street was closed to traffic after a man climbed on top of a van in a protest outside Leinster House this afternoon.
Oireachtas agenda: Social media, water charges and HSE cutbacks
HSE head Tony O’Brien will return to the Oireachtas today to discuss the executive’s national service plan for 2013.
# leinster-house - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Mobility grant, Seanad reform and social media abuse
The Communications committee this morning begins debate on how to respond to the abuse of social media.
# leinster-house - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Junior doctors, property tax and health insurance
The working hours of Irish junior doctors will be discussed by the Health committee today.
# leinster-house - Monday 4 March, 2013
Gerry Adams: The Taoiseach’s salary undermines his agenda
In a wide-ranging interview with TheJournal.ie, the Sinn Féin president also revealed which government policies his party actually supports and explained why Croke Park II is a bad deal.
# leinster-house - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Enda Kenny accuses opposition of making ‘political football’ of disability cut
In heated exchanges in the Dáil this morning, the Taoiseach said the current disability transport payments are “illegal and obsolete”.
Oireachtas agenda: Magdalenes, water charges and Coillte sales
The Environment sub-committee will today consider amending the legislation behind the new water charges regime.
# leinster-house - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Oireachtas agenda: Flooding, Magdalenes and child benefit
Joan Burton discusses her stance on a possible two-tier child benefit system in the Seanad today.
# leinster-house - Monday 25 February, 2013
Tweeting the election: How one TD really saw the 2011 campaign
Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin kept a diary recording all his tweets – and what he really thought – throughout the 2011 election campaign. Two years on from the election, he shares some of them for the first time.
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