Dáil debates

Thursday, 7 March 2013

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Leaders' Questions (71 speeches)
  On 23 February 2011, the Tánaiste stated "Labour will not cut child benefit because", as Labour's policy document noted, "it is the State's only recognition that Ireland remains a very...
• Order of Business (72 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 16a, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 29, Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad] - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; No. 3, Child Care...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (2 speeches)
  I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the order of the Dáil of 9 March 2011 setting out the rota in which questions to members of the Government are to be asked, or in the order of the...
• Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
  I move: "That Report Stage be taken now".
• Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (175 speeches)
  Amendments Nos.1 and 2, in the name of Deputy Stanley are, unfortunately, out of order. We will begin with amendment No. 3, in the name of Deputy Stanley, which arises out of committee...
• 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 Michael McCarthy - the...
• Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time". I thank the spokespersons from the Opposition parties for facilitating the taking of this Bill today. Section 17 of the Child Care Act 1991...
• Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am standing in for Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, who is in Brussels to chair a meeting of the Justice and Home...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Garda Resources (4 speeches)
    The issue that I am about to raise is of the utmost importance to the people of County Louth. As the Minister of State, Deputy White, will be aware, Louth has steadily improved and grown, even...
  • Family Income Supplement Eligibility (4 speeches)
    I raise this issue because it has come to my attention in recent times that one section of the Department of Social Protection has changed the formula used to assess applications for renewal of...
  • Palliative Care for Children (4 speeches)
    Táim buíoch, mar is gnách, don Cheann Comhairle as ucht an t-ábhar fíor-thábhachtach seo a roghnú inniu. Baineann sé le páistí óga a bhfuil...
  • Drug Treatment Programmes (4 speeches)
    There is a long history of community-based drug and alcohol abuse prevention and education initiatives in Howth, Sutton and Baldoyle, as well as across the whole of the old Dublin North-East...
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Higher Education Grants Eligibility Criteria (8 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the report of the capital asset implementation group will go to Cabinet; if he is considering proposals that children from a farm with net assets...
  • School Staffing (6 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied to allow primary school classes to double up to numbers in excess of 40 children per classroom, in order that teachers can, as...
  • Special Educational Needs Services Provision (8 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support full and proper resource hours for children with Down's Syndrome. [12117/13]
  • Student Grant Scheme Delays (10 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is true that he had just one informal meeting with the CEO of City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee and that there was no other...
  • Departmental Staff (6 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the delay in introducing legislation to ensure unemployed teachers get priority for available teaching posts has led to a situation in which in...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Schools Guidance Counsellors (9 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students training to become a career guidance counsellor this year compared to last year in teacher training colleges; if any courses...
  • EPSEN Act 2004 (7 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will publish and take action on the plan to implement the EPSEN Act 2004 in view of the contents of a report (details supplied) from the...
  • School Guidelines on Mental Health (10 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the recent publication of the Action Plan on Bullying and the Interdepartmental Guidelines for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide...
  • School Staffing (10 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of the guidance counsellor in supporting and implementing the guidelines on mental health promotion and suicide prevention in view of the...
  • Bullying in Schools (10 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to the latest findings from the 25 country EU Kids Online survey that claims that Irish children suffer the effects of...
  • Teaching Contracts (11 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list in tabular form the numbers of teachers, on a county basis, who in the 2012/13 academic year have been employed on a temporary basis;...
  • School Staffing (10 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason 153 retired teachers were on the payroll of his Department in December 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11979/13]
  • Irish Language (4 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of the amalgamation of An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta with the NCCA on the 20 year strategy for the Irish...
  • School Accommodation (5 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views regarding the urgent accommodation needs of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin and the fact that they have had to refuse enrolment...
  • Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (8 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the operation of the new MOMENTUM programme; his annual targets through the new programme for enabling citizens who have been...
• Finance Bill 2013: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Sub-Committee on Finance has concluded its consideration of the Finance Bill 2013 and has made amendments thereto.