# leinster-house - Today’s News
The third day of abortion hearings takes place today, while the Dáil debates calls for new rules on leaving the eurozone.
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# leinster-house - Thursday 16 May, 2013
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan is due before the Public Accounts Committee today.
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# leinster-house - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
Senators will vote today on whether to approve proposals that would give all citizens a vote in Seanad elections.
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# leinster-house - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
A Sinn Féin motion debated tonight will call for the ‘re-energisation’ of the Northern Ireland peace process.
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# leinster-house - Saturday 11 May, 2013
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.
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# leinster-house - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
The process of pardoning Irish Army deserters who joined the Allies in World War II will be completed by TDs this evening.
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# leinster-house - Thursday 2 May, 2013
Laws to merge and rationalise Ireland’s VEC sector will be among those polished off in Leinster House today.
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# leinster-house - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
Aer Lingus CEO Christoph Mueller – who is about to take over as chairman of An Post – will also be in attendance today.
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# leinster-house - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Legislation clearing the way for banks to repossess more homes will get its first airing in the Dáil this evening.
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# leinster-house - Thursday 25 April, 2013
HSE head-in-waiting Tony O’Brien – who often gets a lukewarm reception in Leinster House – will be back in today.
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# leinster-house - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
It’s a packed day in Leinster House – click through to find out what’s being debated in the Dail, Seanad and committees today.
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# leinster-house - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Bill O’Herlihy will attend the Environment committee this afternoon to discuss his new job at the Irish Film Board.
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# leinster-house - Thursday 18 April, 2013
The Public Accounts Committee will today examine how TV licence fees were distributed in 2011.
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# leinster-house - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
It’s a varied day of business in Leinster House, which has a packed committee schedule today.
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# leinster-house - Tuesday 16 April, 2013
The 26-year-old said it was “an honour” to take up the seat left vacant by her father, Shane.
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The Dáil’s newest member, Helen McEntee, will be formally introduced to the chamber today.
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# leinster-house - Monday 8 April, 2013
19 Oireachtas ushers have been sent on a training course to prepare for any physical confrontation from the public.
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# leinster-house - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Medical professionals from around the world have come out in support in Ireland’s symphysiotomy survivors. Here’s what they had to say.
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# leinster-house - Thursday 28 March, 2013
The first discussion on laws to create a new national, centralised credit register will take place in the Seanad today.
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# leinster-house - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
# leinster-house - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
Figures representing four of Ireland’s biggest grocery chains will be at the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
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# leinster-house - Saturday 23 March, 2013
Will you be turning off the lights at 8:30pm?
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The lights on Government Buildings, Leinster House and Customs House – among others – will be turned off at 8:30pm.
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# leinster-house - Thursday 21 March, 2013
The EU Affairs committee will be briefed on the European Youth Guarantee and its effects by interest groups today.
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# leinster-house - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
The hearings on the effects of social media abuse resume at the Transport and Communications committee this morning.
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# leinster-house - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
It’s a light day in the Oireachtas today, with only two committee meetings being held.
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# leinster-house - Thursday 14 March, 2013
The Public Accounts Committee scrutinises the accounts of the Department of Social Protection this morning.
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# leinster-house - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
A number of TDs have joined the movement at Leinster House today.
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The Dáil completes its consideration of the Finance Bill today, while the Seanad finalises the new water charges scheme.
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# leinster-house - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
All of that, and the Seanad gets to reform the Dáil… here’s what’s happening today in Leinster House.
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# leinster-house - Friday 8 March, 2013
The Dáil will debate the proposed legislation today.
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# leinster-house - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Kildare Street was closed to traffic after a man climbed on top of a van in a protest outside Leinster House this afternoon.
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HSE head Tony O’Brien will return to the Oireachtas today to discuss the executive’s national service plan for 2013.
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# leinster-house - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
The Communications committee this morning begins debate on how to respond to the abuse of social media.
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# leinster-house - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
The working hours of Irish junior doctors will be discussed by the Health committee today.
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# leinster-house - Monday 4 March, 2013
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.
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# leinster-house - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
In heated exchanges in the Dáil this morning, the Taoiseach said the current disability transport payments are “illegal and obsolete”.
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The Environment sub-committee will today consider amending the legislation behind the new water charges regime.
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# leinster-house - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Joan Burton discusses her stance on a possible two-tier child benefit system in the Seanad today.
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# leinster-house - Monday 25 February, 2013
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