Dáil debates

Thursday, 11 October 2007

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil Under Standing Order 32 (14 speeches)
  Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 32. I will call on Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my...
• Order of Business (78 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 11, statements on the establishment of committees, and No. 3, Fines Bill 2007 — Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in...
• Establishment of Committees (103 speeches)
  Having been Chief Whip for the past three years, I am a firm believer in the value of the committee system to the workings of the Oireachtas. I believe it is an excellent committee system, of...
• Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Mobile Telephony.
  • Mobile Telephony. (4 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will introduce a regulation requiring all mobile telephone masts to open for use for all network operators...
  • Alternative Energy Projects. (20 speeches)
    Question 2: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason he has significantly reduced the grants available to homeowners for renewable heating systems under...
  • Postal Services. (18 speeches)
    Question 3: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way he will facilitate the opening of a fully competitive market in the postal delivery sector and in...
  • Electricity Network. (12 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on an east-west electricity inter-connector between Ireland and Britain will be built; the person who...
  • Telecommunications Services. (13 speeches)
    Question 5: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the strategy he supports for an efficient and speedy roll out of broadband to all parts of the country; the...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Fuel Prices.
  • Fuel Prices. (11 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will bring forward measures to give the energy regulator, CER, co-competition powers with the Competition...
  • Corrib Gas Pipeline. (13 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position of the Corrib gas pipeline project; his preferred route of Shell's three alternative routes and the...
  • Energy Resources. (17 speeches)
    Question 8: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources how much of the White Paper on Energy Policy has been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Telecommunications Services. (13 speeches)
    Question 9: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on the Government's target of 700,000 broadband subscribers by the end of 2007; his views on...
  • Alternative Energy Projects. (6 speeches)
    Question 12: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the potentially huge consequences for the world's poorest people as land for food and land for fuel...
• 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 Finian McGrath — new...
• Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
  Hospital Services.
  • Hospital Services. (3 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise the important issue of providing a top quality health service at Beaumont Hospital. All Members have a duty of care to the vulnerable,...
  • Child Care Services. (2 speeches)
    Two reports have been published in the past 24 hours that can only be described as damning indictments of the failure of the Government to provide essential services for children in need of care...
  • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme. (4 speeches)
    The subject matter of this Adjournment debate is very much related to the Minister of State's reply to the previous matter. It concerns residential care which had been part and parcel of this...
  • Irish Prison Service. (4 speeches)
    I thank the office of the Ceann Comhairle for facilitating me in raising this matter and I thank the Minister of State for coming before the House to debate it. This week, the Council of Europe's...