Dáil debates

Thursday, 1 May 2008

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (4 speeches)
  Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 32.
• Order of Business (115 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 19, Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (EirGrid) Bill 2008 — Second Stage (resumed); and No. 4, Chemicals Bill 2008 — Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It...
• Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Eirgrid) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed). (13 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (EirGrid) Bill 2008: Referral to Select Committee. (1 speech)
  I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, in accordance with Standing Order 120(1) and paragraph 1(a)(i) of the Orders of...
• Chemicals Bill 2008: Order for Second Stage (2 speeches)
  Bill entitled an Act to regulate and control the manufacture, use, placing on the market, export, import, transport, testing, storage, classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals; to...
• Chemicals Bill 2008: Second Stage (28 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank my colleagues for turning up as this is the first Bill I am presenting to Dáil Éireann as a Minister of State.
• Chemicals Bill 2008: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in accordance with Standing Order 120(1) and paragraph 1(a)(i) of the Orders of Reference of that...
• Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has completed its consideration of the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) (Confirmation of Orders) Bill 2008 and...
• Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Human Rights Issues.
  • Human Rights Issues. (13 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs when he last had discussions with the Chinese ambassador; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16661/08]
  • Overseas Development Aid. (8 speeches)
    Question 3: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the funding that has been allocated to the world food programme from Ireland for 2008; the amount allocated in 2007; and if he will make a...
  • World Trade Negotiations. (8 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason World Trade Organisation talks were taken off the agenda for the recent GAERC meeting; if he had informal discussions with his EU...
  • EU Treaties. (4 speeches)
    Question 5: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will clarify the implications of Article 48 of the Lisbon reform treaty on the constitutional requirement to hold referenda on...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  International Crises.
  • International Crises. (18 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the measures agreed at the recent GAERC meeting in Luxembourg regarding the situation in Zimbabwe; if he has held talks with the South African...
  • Human Rights Issues. (15 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the participation by Ireland in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and in particular on governmental or political participation in the...
  • United Nations Reform. (9 speeches)
    Question 10: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position in relation to the discussions taking place on reform of the United Nations; and the progress being made in such discussions....
  • Overseas Development Aid. (8 speeches)
    Question 13: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if all independent audit reports carried out on the distribution of Irish aid from 2002 to 2007 inclusive are available; and if he will make...
• 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 Joe Costello — the need...
• Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
  Health Service Records.
  • Health Service Records. (2 speeches)
    I am not raising this issue to be provocative or to seek somebody's head. Rather, I put down this Adjournment matter with a sense of desperation. I have a personal interest in this issue. Some...
• Mental Health Services (4 speeches)
  I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this item for discussion on the Adjournment. On 24 January 2006, the expert group on mental health policy established by the Department of Health and...
  • Controlled Substances. (2 speeches)
    The issue I raise concerns patients receiving the best medical treatment that is available, arising out of research, on controlled drugs and drugs that are not subject to regulation. In reply to...
• Estimates for Public Services 2008: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has completed its consideration of the following revised Estimate for public services for the service of the year ending on 31 December...