Dáil debates
Tuesday, 30 March 2004
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.
- Ceisteanna — Questions. (0 speeches)
Special Advisers.
- Special Advisers. (22 speeches)
Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the names, duties and responsibilities of the special or political advisers or assistants appointed by the Attorney General; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Investigations. (45 speeches)
Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if the Government has directed an audit of the Statute Book in order to ascertain the number of enactments vulnerable to challenge on the grounds set out in the...
- Priority Questions. (0 speeches)
School League Tables.
- School League Tables. (4 speeches)
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his proposals with regard to the introduction of a scheme to release information in relation to schools; and if he will make a...
- Special Educational Needs. (9 speeches)
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he is refusing to sanction more than 4,000 applications for special needs resources received before 31 August 2003 that have been...
- Teacher Union Conferences. (11 speeches)
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide an update on his talks with the three teacher unions (details supplied) regarding his attendance at their Easter...
- Further Education. (17 speeches)
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the details of the change in policy instigated by his Department regarding funding for colleges for further education; and if he will...
- Other Questions. (0 speeches)
Career Guidance.
- Career Guidance. (13 speeches)
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to improve the pupil-career guidance counsellor ratio in second level schools; the current ratio; and if he will make a...
- Early School Leavers. (7 speeches)
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to a new study by a person (details supplied) which reveals that, based on recent data from the Central...
- School Transport. (9 speeches)
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to implement the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Science report on school transport; the...
- Vetting Procedures. (14 speeches)
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to the establishment of a vetting procedure for all teachers and other school staff who have the potential to...
- 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 Costello — the need for...
- Leaders' Questions. (56 speeches)
In the course of the budget, the Minister for Social and Family Affairs introduced 16 savage social welfare cuts. One of these related to the widow's pension and lone parent's allowance. Last...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (10 speeches)
Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31. I will call the Deputies in the order in which they submitted notices to my office.
- Order of Business. (102 speeches)
The Order of Business today shall be as follows: No. 12, statements on European Council, Brussels; and No. 1, Sea Pollution (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003 [Seanad] — Second Stage. It is...
- Message from Select Committee. (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Agriculture and Food has completed its consideration of the An Bord Bia (Amendment) Bill 2003 and has made amendments thereto.
- European Council Meetings: Statements. (29 speeches)
I chaired the European Council meeting held in Brussels on 25 and 26 March. I was accompanied by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Cowen, and the Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy. The...
- Private Members' Business. (0 speeches)
Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion.
- Adjournment Debate. (0 speeches)
Decentralisation Programme.
- Decentralisation Programme. (7 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to address the matter and I hope he will address it sympathetically. In his budget statement in December, the Minister for Finance announced...
- Hospitals Building Programme. (27 speeches)
I hope the Minister of State has more information for me than was offered to Deputy Stanton on the previous matter raised. A building at South Tipperary General Hospital at St. Joseph's, Clonmel,...
- Sexual Offences. (6 speeches)
I hope the Minister of State has a more specific response to my question than Deputy Healy got to his.
- Probation and Welfare Service. (6 speeches)
Almost two years ago, the OPW purchased for €1.5 million the old Allied Irish Banks premises on Main Street, Blanchardstown, with the intention of using the building for a probation and welfare...
