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...