Dáil debates

Tuesday, 13 November 2007

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.
• Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
  Social Partnership.
  • Social Partnership. (31 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the biennial conference of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions on 4 July 2007; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Early School Leavers.
  • Early School Leavers. (19 speeches)
    Question 44: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on the school drop-out rate for primary and post-primary education. [28561/07]
  • School Accommodation. (18 speeches)
    Question 45: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 1 November 2007, the reason her Department has sanctioned money to primary...
  • Site Acquisitions. (13 speeches)
    Question 46: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the sites which have been acquired or designated for new schools under the Fingal school model agreement announced in September 2007....
  • School Accommodation. (16 speeches)
    Question 47: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is an ongoing review and analysis being carried out in the Kinvara catchment area, County Galway on the provision of a second...
  • School Transport. (6 speeches)
    Question 48: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she is satisfied that the fleet for transporting school children is up to standard mechanically with seat belts fitted and that pick...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Sex Education.
  • Sex Education. (6 speeches)
    Question 49: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 2 October 2007, if the promotion of safe homosexual sex education is part of...
  • State Examinations. (2 speeches)
    Question 50: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the charge proposed to be levied on students wishing to sit the 2008 leaving certificate examinations; the charges that were levied in...
  • School Curriculum. (12 speeches)
    Question 51: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that no regulations concerning the prescribing of the revised curriculum have to date come before the Houses of the...
  • Pupil-Teacher Ratio. (6 speeches)
    Question 52: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to her reply to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 125, 150 and 158 of 2 October 2007 the reason for the discrepancy in the promise...
  • School Admissions. (6 speeches)
    Question 53: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she is satisfied that the admissions policy employed by secondary schools is fully compliant with all of the requirements under...
• 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 James Bannon — to...
• Leaders' Questions (13 speeches)
  Anois, Ceisteanna na gCinnirí, Ceannaire an Fhreasúra, An Teachta Enda Kenny.
• Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (10 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 office.
• Order of Business (76 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 6, motion re Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006; No. 7, motion re Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Bill 2005 [Seanad]; No. 8, motion re Nuclear Test Ban...
• Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Order of the Dáil of 26th June 2007, to the extent that it orders that the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006 be considered in Committee of the whole Dáil, be...
• Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Order of the Dáil of 26th June 2007, to the extent that it orders that the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Bill 2005 [Seanad] be considered in Committee of the whole Dáil,...
• Nuclear Test Ban Bill 2006: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Order of the Dáil of 26th June 2007, to the extent that it orders that the Nuclear Test Ban Bill 2006 be considered in Committee of the whole Dáil, be discharged and that the...
• Control of Exports Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Order of the Dáil of 4th October 2007, to the extent that it orders that the Control of Exports Bill 2007 [Seanad] be considered in Committee of the whole Dáil, be discharged...
• Passports Bill 2007: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Order of the Dáil of 18th October 2007, to the extent that it orders that the Passports Bill 2007 be considered in Committee of the whole Dáil, be discharged and that the Bill...
• Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to provide for and to facilitate the transfer of certain functions from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to the Minister for Transport in...
• Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (67 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to open the debate in this House on the Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007. On the formation of the Government in June...
• Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
• Child Care: Motion (28 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann, calls on the Government to radically modify the new proposed child care subvention scheme that the Government intends to become fully operational from 1 July 2008, as...
• Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
  Child Care Services.
  • Child Care Services. (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise this matter. The Mantua preschool child care facility in County Roscommon was established in September to carry out two...
  • Job Creation. (2 speeches)
    In the past week a shattering and demoralising blow has been inflicted on the diligent and committed workforce at Premier Foods, Thurles, County Tipperary. This company and the Erin brand,...
  • Schools Building Projects. (2 speeches)
    In spring during the run-up to the teacher unions' conferences and the general election, the Minister for Education and Science announced to a media fanfare that a primary school, under the...
  • Electricity Generation. (2 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this matter, and the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Killeen, for coming in to...