Dáil debates

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Leaders' Questions (74 speeches)
  Last week I highlighted the farcical situation in the Department of Health and in the health services generally, with health officials sitting on the board of the HSE for very tense meetings in...
• Order of Business (74 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 1, Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Second and Remaining Stages; No. a14, Criminal Justice (Search Warrants) Bill 2012 - Committee and Remaining Stages; and...
• Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (58 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to bring the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2012 before the House and will inform Members of the background to the Bill and the reason...
• Topical Issue Matters (1 speech)
  I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - the...
• Criminal Justice (Search Warrants) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 speech)
  Sections 1 to 4, inclusive, agreed to.
• Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Merger of Cultural Institutions (10 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has submitted his recommendations and proposals to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to...
  • Íocaíochtaí Deontas (6 speeches)
    Question 2: To ask the an Aire Ealaíon; Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an féidir leis an Aire a dheimhniú go mbeidh na deontais reáchtála a íoctar leis na comharchumainn Ghaeltachta ar an...
  • Arts Funding (6 speeches)
    Question 3: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht the advice he will give for alternative funding for an organisation (details supplied) which has studios in Swords, Athlone,...
  • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (7 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the an Aire Ealaíon; Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta mar gheall ar an Straitéis Fiche Bliain, cé na cruinnuithe a bhí aige; agus an...
  • Heritage Funding (9 speeches)
    Question 5: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to invest in heritage infrastructure in order to maintain productive jobs in the public and private sector; his...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Fostaíocht Gaeltachta (21 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the an Aire Ealaíon; Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén polasaí atá aige chun an teanga Ghaeilge a choinneáil beo, cén polasaí atá aige chun fostaíocht a chaomhnú sna...
  • Cultural Development (13 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the fact that the European Commission will be investing over seventy billion euro in developing the creative...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Electricity Transmission Network (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this issue, the 500 kV interconnector power line from Meath to Tyrone. This initiative has been under way for a long time and I am...
  • Special Educational Needs (4 speeches)
    On 27 June this year Scoil Mochua, a special school on the Old Nangor Road in Clondalkin, Dublin 22, was informed by its special educational needs organiser that it would lose two teaching staff...
  • School Curriculum (4 speeches)
    I thank the Minister for being in the Chamber. Project Maths has been hailed as the answer to the below average standing of Irish 15 years olds in the OECD's Programme for International Student...
  • Defence Forces Reorganisation (6 speeches)
    I am grateful to the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic. It is important as we move towards the last day of this session that we have an opportunity to have a brief discussion with the...
• Personal Insolvency Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (41 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Éireann has passed the European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill 2011, without amendment.
• Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 speeches, 1 comment)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (134 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality pursuant to Standing Order 82A(3)(a). Question put and agreed to.