Dáil debates

Tuesday, 22 February 2005

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.
• Business of Dáil. (2 speeches)
  It is proposed that notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, the Dáil shall proceed directly to questions to the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, which shall conclude by...
• Ceisteanna — Questions. (0 speeches)
• Priority Questions. (1 speech)
  As Deputy McGinley is not present, we will move on to Priority Question No. 2 in the name of Deputy O'Shea.
  • Foras na Gaeilge. (15 speeches)
    Question 2: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to widespread dissatisfaction with and loss of confidence in Foras na Gaeilge among...
  • National Drugs Strategy. (9 speeches)
    Question 3: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will report on Government plans to combat the worst case drugs scenario for the country, namely the establishment...
  • Voluntary Sector Organisations. (9 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has satisfied himself that his Department is doing enough to facilitate the development of the community and...
• Other Questions. (0 speeches)
  Volunteer Training.
  • Volunteer Training. (20 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has received the recent report commissioned by the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and...
  • Community Development. (27 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason the allocation to local roads projects in CLÁR areas has not been increased for 2005; and if he will make a...
  • Foras na Gaeilge. (6 speeches)
    Question 8: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an aontaíonn sé nach dtuigeann Foras na Gaeilge conas airgead a dháileadh go héifeachtach (sonraí tugtha); agus an...
  • Anti-Poverty Strategy. (55 speeches)
    Question 10: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the Community Workers Co-operative received a favourable report from the Combat Poverty Agency in its most recent...
  • Irish Language. (12 speeches)
    Question 11: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has had further discussions with the Department of Foreign Affairs following on recent discussions at EU level...
• 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 Durkan — the hardship...
• Leaders' Questions. (50 speeches)
  Many thousands of elderly people and their families are anxiously waiting for the Government's response to last week's Supreme Court decision which rejected its attempt to retrospectively deny...
• Message from President. (1 speech)
  I have received a message from the President stating that the Supreme Court has decided that certain provisions of the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004 are repugnant to the Constitution and...
• Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (5 speeches)
  Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with several notices under Standing Order 31. I will call the Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.
• Order of Business. (70 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 10, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of a proposal that section 17A of the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 shall continue in...
• Diseases of Animals Act 1966: Referral to Joint Committee. (1 speech)
  I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann resolve that section 17A (inserted by section 2(1) of the Diseases of Animals (Amendment) Act 2001, (No. 3 of 2001)) of the Diseases of Animals Act...
• Disability Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (15 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Private Members' Business. (0 speeches)
• Special Educational Needs: Motion. (31 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: —noting that progress has been made in the area of special needs education, including the passage of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act...
• Adjournment Debate. (0 speeches)
  Social Welfare Benefits.
  • Social Welfare Benefits. (11 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the opportunity to raise this issue. It has been a cause of concern to me for some considerable time, as I am sure it has for the Minister for Social...
  • Job Losses. (2 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me the opportunity to raise this matter of great importance to my constituency of Limerick West, namely, the loss of 150 jobs at Castlemahon Food...
  • Child Care Services. (2 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for giving me the opportunity to raise this issue on the Adjournment. Last Friday, the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform announced that...