Dáil debates
Thursday, 26 January 2006
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannasar 10.30 a.m.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (11 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. (116 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 1, Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]— Second Stage; No. 18a, statements to Dáil Éireann by the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy...
- An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht 2006: An Chéad Chéim. (0 speeches)
- Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2006: First Stage. (5 speeches)
Tairgim: Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. This...
- Private Members' Business. (0 speeches)
EU Services Directive: Motion (Resumed).
- Business of Dáil. (1 speech)
I move: That statements on the Vote for the Health Service Executive shall take place at 2.20 p.m. and shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 70 minutes, and the...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (90 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Deputies will be aware that on 8 November last, I announced that the Government had decided to revoke the Restrictive Practices (Groceries)...
- Vote for the Health Service Executive 2005-06: Statements. (119 speeches)
The Minister for Finance brought to the attention of the House yesterday a possible change to the estimated carryover of capital to 2006 for the Vote of the Health Service Executive. There has...
- Ceisteanna — Questions. (0 speeches)
- Priority Questions. (0 speeches)
Tourism Promotion.
- Tourism Promotion. (6 speeches)
Question 1: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his Department's and the Government's plans to promote Irish tourism during the Ryder Cup; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Sports Sponsorship. (4 speeches)
Question 2: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he agrees that alcohol sponsorship has no place in sport; his further views on whether legislation must be brought in to remove any...
- Tourism Industry. (4 speeches)
Question 3: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the way in which tourism is affected by a lack of price display and price increases by certain public houses and...
- Sports Capital Programme. (8 speeches)
Question 4: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if preferential treatment will be given to sports organisations which have applied under the 2006 sports capital programme to provide a...
- Tourism Industry. (4 speeches)
Question 5: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to a report, whereby figures show that tourism is 275% more important to the west than to the Dublin...
- Other Questions. (0 speeches)
Olympic Games.
- Olympic Games. (17 speeches)
Question 6: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his plans to maximise tourism and sporting opportunities ahead of the Olympic Games in London in 2012; and if he will make a statement...
- National Sports Stadium. (14 speeches)
Question 7: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding Sports Campus Ireland; if it is on schedule; his views on whether it is vital that the campus be completed on...
- Horseracing Industry. (2 speeches)
Question 8: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if more funding will be made available for promoting Irish horseracing abroad in view of the fact that Ireland is seen as one of the...
- Message from Select Committee. (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Health and Children has completed its consideration of the Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005 and has made amendments thereto.
- 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 Deenihan — to ask the...
- Adjournment Debate. (0 speeches)
Hospital Staff.
- Hospital Staff. (2 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this matter on the Adjournment this afternoon. This is not the first time I have raised on the Adjournment the issue of nursing shortages...
- Variant CJD Incidence. (2 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for permitting me to raise this issue. It is the second time I raised the sad case of a 24 year old constituent who contracted CJD. I raised it on 5 May 2005 when the...
- Social Welfare Benefits. (4 speeches)
New rules and regulations on the Department of Social and Family Affairs lone-parent family payments are being introduced from the middle of February. From that point on, payments will have to be...
