Dáil debates

Tuesday, 16 May 2006

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.
• Ceisteanna — Questions. (0 speeches)
  Programme for Government.
  • Programme for Government. (152 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing An Agreed Programme for Government. [14275/06]
• Priority Questions. (0 speeches)
  Comhairle na Tuaithe.
  • Comhairle na Tuaithe. (6 speeches)
    Question 63: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he is satisfied with the progress made to date by Comhairle na Tuaithe in developing a national countryside...
  • National Drugs Strategy. (13 speeches)
    Question 64: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made by each of the ten regional task forces to date in 2006 in the implementation of their action plans;...
  • Community Development. (4 speeches)
    Question 65: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the real concern among community partnership networks that the current cohesion...
  • National Drugs Strategy. (19 speeches)
    Question 66: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the use of moneys seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau for drug prevention and drug treatment programmes,...
  • Departmental Programmes. (7 speeches)
    Question 67: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his proposals to implement the recommendations of the Committee of Public Accounts that objectives, targeted results...
• Other Questions. (0 speeches)
  National Drugs Strategy.
  • National Drugs Strategy. (20 speeches)
    Question 68: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to recent comments from the Garda Commissioner at the AGSI conference in Killarney that...
  • Ranganna Gaeilge. (6 speeches)
    Question 69: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta ar léigh sé alt le duine (sonraí tugtha) agus cad é an plean atá aige chun freastal ar na cuspóirí a bhí ag...
• 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 Ó Fearghaíl — the...
• Leaders' Questions. (58 speeches)
  The "Prime Time Investigates" programme exposed once again what is probably the greatest scandal of modern Ireland, that is, the growing numbers of people who have to brush with death rather than...
• Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (17 speeches)
  Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 31.
• Order of Business. (65 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 17, the Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006 — Second Stage (resumed); and No. 2, Institutes of Technology Bill 2006 — Order for Second Stage and Second Stage....
• Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (11 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Health (Repayment Scheme) Bill 2006: Referral to Select Committee. (1 speech)
  I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Health and Children, in accordance with Standing Order 120(1) and paragraph 1(a)(i) of the Orders of Reference of that committee.
• Estimates for Public Services 2006: Message from Select Committee. (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources has completed its consideration of the following Estimates for public services for the service of the year ending on 31...
• Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Order for Second Stage. (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to amend the Regional Technical Colleges Acts 1992 to 2001, to amend the Dublin Institute of Technology Acts 1992 to 2001, to amend the Higher Education Authority Act 1971,...
• Institutes of Technology Bill 2006: Second Stage. (5 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to bring the Bill to the House. It is a highly significant development for the future of Ireland's education system, the higher...
• Private Members' Business. (0 speeches)
• Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion. (100 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann, recognising: —the right to primary education enshrined in Article 42 of the Constitution; —the failure to adequately plan for population growth in certain parts...
• Estimates for Public Services 2006: Message from Select Committee. (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs has completed its consideration of the following Estimates for Public Services, for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2006: Votes 28 and 29.
• Adjournment Debate. (0 speeches)
  Health Service Projects.
  • Health Service Projects. (2 speeches)
    Approximately six years ago, the old convent property in Louisburgh, County Mayo, was purchased by the Western Health Board for £265,000. In November 2000, I was advised that the services to be...
  • Health Services. (2 speeches)
    For the past decade there has been a campaign by senior citizens in the Tralee area, supported politically by all parties, councillors and the community in general, to try to achieve the...
  • Schools Recognition. (2 speeches)
    Gaelscoil Chill Dara, established by a group of highly motivated and enthusiastic parents in the mid-1990s, has gone from strength to strength in the intervening period, not least since the...
  • Local Authority Housing. (4 speeches)
    I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to speak on this important issue which has been raised continually by my constituents. I thank also the Minister of State at the Department of...