Dáil debates
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannasar 10.30 a.m.
- Leaders' Questions (42 speeches)
The provision of cancer services is a matter of very serious concern to a great number of people at the moment. In 2000, the House debated a report on the employment of locum consultants around...
- Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
Departmental Bodies.
- Departmental Bodies. (138 speeches)
Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the annual cost of running the communications unit within his Department. [28105/07]
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (4 speeches)
Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with notices under Standing Order 32. I will call the Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office. I call...
- Order of Business (70 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 15, Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad] Order for Report and Report and Final Stages; No. 10, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of a...
- Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (5 speeches)
As there are no amendments on Report Stage, we proceed to Fifth Stage. Bill reported without amendment and received for final consideration.
- Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (12 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the despatch, pursuant to section 2 of the Defence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1960, as applied by the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006, of a contingent of the...
- Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights has completed its consideration of the Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007 and has made amendments thereto.
- Ceisteanna — Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
- Priority Questions (0 speeches)
Business Regulation.
- Business Regulation. (18 speeches)
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will set a national target for the reduction of the administrative costs of regulation to business; if he will use...
- EU Directives. (8 speeches)
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position he will adopt at the European Council on 5 December 2007 in relation to the European Parliament and European...
- Science Education. (8 speeches)
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the nature of the co-operation between his Department and the Department of Education and Science in the promotion of...
- Live Register. (14 speeches)
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the continued upward drift in the number of people out of work, as recorded in the monthly live register...
- Employment Support Services. (12 speeches)
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of field staff currently in the labour inspectorate; the timetable for the increase in the number of inspectors;...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
Skills Olympics.
- Skills Olympics. (13 speeches)
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of money and resources his Department has spent on sending 85 people to Japan and China to participate in the...
- Industrial Development. (15 speeches)
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will ask IDA Ireland to make available to local authorities, enterprise boards and community groups the large number...
- Work Permits. (14 speeches)
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in regard to the number of proceedings commenced and convictions obtained from 2003 to 30 October 2007 for offences...
- Telecommunications Services. (23 speeches)
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether Ireland's broadband infrastructure, connectivity and bandwidth, as indicated in recent OECD surveys, is...
- Industrial Development. (5 speeches)
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken to address the issue of competitiveness in the economy with particular reference to Irish exports on...
- Work Permits. (6 speeches)
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on making fees paid by employers seeking work permits to be refundable in full or in part if an employee changes...
- 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 Willie Penrose — the...
- Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (69 speeches)
The following motion was moved by the Minister for Defence, Deputy Willie O'Dea, today:
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (396 speeches)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Jan O'Sullivan on Tuesday, 28 November 2007:
- Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
Tax Code.
- Tax Code. (2 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this matter. Just 12 months ago, the Minister for Finance, in his Budget Statement, announced the mid-Shannon tax incentive scheme to support...
- Health Service Staff. (8 speeches)
This Adjournment matter is relevant in light of the recent debate on confidence in the Minister for Health and Children. It concerns a former postman who has lived and worked all his life in...
- Hospital Staff. (2 speeches)
I hope that we will be able to get some answers in the debate about the uncertainty surrounding media reports of a review of a pathologist's work at Cork University Hospital. Media reports refer...
- Schools Building Projects. (5 speeches)
I sincerely thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this important matter concerning the delay in — the long-fingering of — or the placing of additional obstacles or burdens...
