A teenage disability campaigner has said it is a myth that there is a shortage of therapists to carry out assessments of need (AONs)

The three-judge division of the High Court is hearing the case, brought by Sinn Fein TD Pa Daly.

The Arts Minister has said he thought he might be dying during an epileptic episode in Leinster House two years ago.

The student contribution fee has been temporarily reduced for the past three years as part of cost-of-living packages accompanying the budget.

Sinn Féin accused the Government of having ‘failed to exert any real pressure’ on retailers over high prices.

Senator Black told Newstalk Breakfast that she welcomed the fact that the bill was going before Cabinet on Tuesday after years of “unnecessary delays”.

Micheál Martin told the chamber he is ‘not going to come in here’ and listen to their questions if he is not going to be allowed to reply.

Here, we have a look at the issues likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said these were the ‘strongest set of rent protection measures we’ve ever had in the history of the state’.

Sweeping new changes will be brought to Cabinet for approval on Tuesday after being signed off by the coalition party leaders and senior ministers on Monday night. 

Micheál Martin said there needs to be an ‘exhaustive’ review of unnecessary hip surgeries at two Dublin hospitals.

"Workers' rights in many cases have gone backwards and that needs to change," said the TD.

Two independent TDs opposed the bill, with Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae saying foxes had ‘completely taken over the place’.

The project had been due to be completed in June, but has been delayed until September.

Micheál Martin said there was no government across the EU which had provided as much in cost of living supports as Ireland.

Micheál Martin said Brendan McDonagh, who he spoke to on Thursday, does not want to be part of the ongoing controversy.

The Nama chief executive said he was withdrawing ‘in light of the controversy’ that had arisen.

Pearse Doherty said the ’embarrassing’ €430,000 appointment was ‘a slap in the face’ for working people.

'Sinn Féin now has a four point and five point lead over the two main government parties which is significant'

Roscommon-Galway TD Michael Fitzmaurice said an over-reliance on digital payments is dangerous.

The Government is aiming to begin establishing Oireachtas Committees next week.

Micheál Martin said that every child in Ireland has a constitutional right to a school place.

Mr Lowry is a former Fine Gael minister.

An ongoing row over speaking rights in the Dáil has led to a lack of co-operation to establish the committees

The Government motion expressing that the Dáil has confidence in the Ceann Comhairle passed by 96 votes to 71, with two abstentions.

The Dáil is debating a confidence motion in Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy over her role in approving a vote which allowed the Government to make changes to speaking time in the Dáil. 

The Dublin Bay North TD said there were clear political reasons behind his decision to distance himself from Michael Lowry in the Dáil.

Labour’s Ged Nash said that the Ceann Comhairle needed to show that she is ‘not in any way partisan’.

Micheál Martin said it was a ‘bit rich’ for the opposition to blame the Ceann Comhairle after creating widespread disruption.

The Ceann Comhairle faces a confidence motion on Tuesday over her handling of a vote which cut opposition speaking rights

The vote was tabled after the opposition accused her of partisanship over her handling of their protest in the Dáil last week.

‘The behaviour in the Dáil (in the) last week, if you saw it from your children, you would have been disappointed,’ Tánaiste Simon Harris said.

Sinn Féin chief whip Padraig Mac Lochlainn said in correspondence to Ceann Chomhairle Verona Murphy on Thursday that there are “three fundamental issues” in how Tuesday’s disorder was handled.

Verona Murphy will have the backing of Government parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, as well as Government-supporting independent TDs.

'The Ceann Comhairle herself has acknowledged that it was Michael Lowry who was the mechanism and the channel through which she came to that position', the Sinn Féin leader said.

The clerk of the Dáil concluded that the Ceann Comhairle acted according to the rules and her powers

Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy also ‘categorically’ rejected the opposition’s accusations of partiality.

Here's everything you need to know about the speaking rights row

Amid widespread disruption in the Dáil on Tuesday as the Government sought to pass new rules on speaking rights, Verona Murphy announced that the order of the business had been agreed.

Independent TD Michael Lowry also said it was not made with malicious intent.

Verona Murphy is facing criticism for her handling of an acrimonious sitting on Tuesday when contentious changes to speaking rights were voted through.

Opposition leaders are to meet on Wednesday morning after the Dail was disrupted amid a row on speaking time changes.

There were chaotic scenes of shouting, interruptions and allegations of misogyny on Tuesday as tension over the speaking rights row boiled over.