Dáil debates

Thursday, 10 February 2005

  • Prelude (0 speeches)
    Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
  • Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (8 speeches)
    Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31.
  • Order of Business. (172 speeches)
    It is proposed to take No. 1 the Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad] — Second Stage; and No. 15 the Driver Testing and Standards Authority Bill 2004 — Second Stage (Resumed).
  • Garda Síochána Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (73 speeches)
    I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to have the opportunity to open this debate on the Garda Síochána Bill 2004. As I stated previously, it contains the most...
  • Ceisteanna — Questions. (0 speeches)
  • Priority Questions. (0 speeches)
    Hospital Waiting Lists.
    • Hospital Waiting Lists. (10 speeches)
      Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the national treatment purchase fund is in a position to take responsibility for outpatients department waiting lists for...
    • Industrial Disputes. (8 speeches)
      Question 2: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she is taking to protect patient care, in view of the decision by hospital consultants to ballot for industrial...
    • Accident and Emergency Services. (15 speeches)
      Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is proposed to proceed with the configuration of accident and emergency services in the State's hospitals as proposed...
    • Mental Health Services. (31 speeches)
      Question 4: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the details of the consultations between her Department and the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform in relation to...
    • Health Services. (15 speeches)
      Question 5: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she has commissioned a report from experts on the Tuam Hospital project given that the Western Health Board has...
  • Other Questions. (0 speeches)
    Nursing Home Subventions.
    • Nursing Home Subventions. (20 speeches)
      Question 6: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to change the criteria for supplementary subvention as provided by health boards to bring it more into line...
    • Hospital Staff. (5 speeches)
      Question 7: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she had discussions with the Health Service Executive to consider changing the date of the changeover of NCHDs to a time...
    • Hospital Services. (14 speeches)
      Question 8: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons treated with radiotherapy at a private clinic in Galway; the intended number of patients that will be...
    • Hospital Charges. (2 speeches)
      Question 9: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the increase in the drugs refund threshold, the cost of an overnight stay in a hospital and the cost of a visit 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 Seán Ryan — the urgent...
  • Adjournment Debate. (0 speeches)
  • Hospital Services. (2 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise the important matter of the review into the death of Róisín Ruddle, Kilmacow, Kilfinny, Adare. I am a fellow parishioner of the Ruddle...
    • Services for People with Disabilities. (2 speeches)
      Gabhaim buíochas don Cheann Comhairle as an deis chun na ceiste seo a phlé. In an adjournment debate on 29 January 2003 I called upon the Minister for Health and Children to act as a matter of...
    • Schools Building Projects. (2 speeches)
      It is with a deep sense of frustration that I raise this issue. Children in the Donabate-Portrane area urgently need a post-primary school on the peninsula. The Department of Education and...