Dáil debates
Thursday, 13 May 2004
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (5 speeches)
Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31. I will call on Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.
- Order of Business. (85 speeches)
The Order of Business today shall be as follows: No. 15, Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003 — Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage to adjourn at 1 p.m. today, if not previously...
- Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (111 speeches)
Amendments Nos. 43 and 44 not moved.
- Maritime Security Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (21 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This Bill is a necessary technical measure to give effect to the 1988 United Nations Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the...
- Ceisteanna — Questions. (0 speeches)
- Priority Questions. (0 speeches)
Consumer Affairs.
- Consumer Affairs. (10 speeches)
Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the work programme of the consumer consultative panel; the efforts that the panel has taken to be...
- Proposed Legislation. (8 speeches)
Question 2: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is still the Government's intention to introduce legislation to provide for a new offence of corporate...
- Employment Support Services. (8 speeches)
Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employment task forces her Department or the agencies responsible to it have been involved in...
- Social Partnership. (9 speeches)
Question 4: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason only 38% of small businesses believe social partnership benefits them while 24% believe it is not...
- Job Losses. (6 speeches)
Question 5: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the figures for the level of industrial employment at the latest date for which figures are available; the way...
- National Irish Bank Investigations. (9 speeches)
Question 6: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the costs incurred by the State, at the latest date for which figures are available, arising from the various...
- Export Controls. (6 speeches)
Question 7: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she expects to receive phase two of the report from economic consultants (details supplied) Export...
- Price Displaying. (12 speeches)
Question 8: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she intends to make an order under the Consumer Affairs Act to require doctors, dentists and allied health...
- Price Increases. (17 speeches)
Question 9: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to reports that a number of pubs in Dublin significantly raised prices in the...
- Industrial Development. (4 speeches)
Question 10: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the criteria which apply to the IDA and Enterprise Ireland on the nature of companies they can support; if...
- Safety on Farms. (6 speeches)
Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of deaths and serious accidents in the past three years from the use of tractors and farm machinery;...
- 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 Morgan — the necessity...
- Adjournment Debate. (0 speeches)
Industrial Development.
- Industrial Development. (6 speeches)
The announcement by Galen Pharmaceuticals that it is not now going to develop a factory in Ardee is not a surprise to me. The company's financial position has been less than inspiring of late and...
- Heritage Projects. (2 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this matter on the Adjournment this evening. The Jeanie Johnston project was initiated in 1995 with the aim of providing a replica of the...
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases. (4 speeches)
This is a serious health issue that has not received as much attention as others. I attended a packed meeting last Tuesday night in St. Bricin's, Arbour Hill, on the extent of prostitution in the...
- Hospitals Building Programme. (14 speeches)
I welcome the Minister of State who spoke on this matter on 9 October 2003. If the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, and his Ministers of State, Deputies Lenihan and Callely, were...