Dáil debates

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
  International Financial Services Centre.
  • International Financial Services Centre. (30 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the way he will fully support the creation of the proposed green IFSC; the details of the plan; the role his Department will take in conducting a feasibility...
  • Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (19 speeches)
    Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff employed in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; the areas in which the numbers of staff have increased or decreased in the DPP...
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Ministerial Responsibilities.
  • Ministerial Responsibilities. (7 speeches)
    Question 56: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the new responsibilities allocated to his Department, including details of its responsibility to provide a cohesive system for...
  • Tax and Social Welfare Codes. (63 speeches)
    Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to offset the impact on poor households of the full introduction of the carbon levy; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Response to Industrial Action. (6 speeches)
    Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the impact current industrial action is having on applications for social welfare support; the number of social welfare claims delayed as a...
  • Pension Provisions. (15 speeches)
    Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of defined benefit pension schemes which fail the minimum funding standard; the number of persons affected by this; and...
  • Social Welfare Benefits. (6 speeches)
    Question 60: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to introduce a partial capacity benefit scheme for people in receipt of illness or disability payments; the details of...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Social Welfare Benefits.
  • Social Welfare Benefits. (25 speeches)
    Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of families eligible for the family income supplement; the number of families in receipt of the family income...
• Leaders' Questions (29 speeches)
  On 30 March, the Minister for Finance, in speaking in the House on the financial crisis, said that the banks of this country had played fast and loose with the economic interests of Ireland. He...
• Adjournment Debate Matters (1 speech)
  I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the member in each case: (1) Deputy Joe Carey - the need to...
• Death of Polish President: Expressions of Sympathy (7 speeches)
  I wish to express again my sincere sympathies and condolences and those of the Government following the tragic air accident which claimed the lives of the President of the Republic of Poland, His...
• Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (8 speeches)
  Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 32 and will call on Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.
• Order of Business (88 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 9, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Defamation Act 2009 (Press Council) Order 2010, back from committee; No. 10, motion re ministerial rota for...
• Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Defamation Act 2009 (Press Council) Order 2010: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Defamation Act 2009 (Press Council) Order 2010, copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 22 March,...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Resolution of the Dáil of 14 June, 2007, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral...
• Private Notice Questions (0 speeches)
  Air Space and Air Traffic.
  • Air Space and Air Traffic. (19 speeches)
    I will call on the Deputies who tabled questions to the Minister for Transport in the order in which they submitted their questions to my office. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for...
• Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
• Central Bank Reform Bill 2010: Second Stage (5 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." It is now three weeks since I outlined to this House the last major element of the Government's strategy to resolve our banking crisis. The...
• Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
  Energy Security: Motion.
  • Energy Security: Motion. (57 speeches)
    I move: That Dáil Éireann: recognises Ireland is acutely exposed in the event of fossil fuel import disruptions because: - fossil fuels comprise 96% of Ireland's primary energy mix; - all oil...
• Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
  Substance Abuse.
  • Substance Abuse. (2 speeches)
    I am pleased to see the Minister of Justice, Equality and Law Reform in the House. The situation with regard to head shops has been deteriorating for a period of time. At least eight head shops...
  • Flood Relief. (14 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this very important item tonight. I am delighted that the Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív, is present because he represents much of the area that...
  • Schools Building Projects. (2 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me time to discuss this very important matter, namely, the urgent need for the Minister for Education and Science to provide the essential funding for...
  • School Staffing. (3 speeches)
    I welcome the opportunity to raise this issue. I was recently asked to meet the chairpersons and principals of the two national schools in Togher, which are sited on the one campus on the south...