Dáil debates

Tuesday, 30 September 2008

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.
• Business of Dáil: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, Oral Questions to the Taoiseach shall not be taken today; Oral Questions to the Minister for Health and Children shall be taken now...
• Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Promised Legislation.
  • Promised Legislation. (6 speeches)
    Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date she expects legislation on the fair deal nursing home support scheme to be published; the reason for the delay in publication;...
  • Health Service Executive Expenditure. (7 speeches)
    Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the information she has been given on plans by the Health Service Executive to reach its budget targets for 2008; if her attention has...
  • Patient Safety Authority. (4 speeches)
    Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the establishment of a patient safety authority or patient ombudsman, either in conjunction with the Health Information and...
  • Medical Insurance. (4 speeches)
    Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent Supreme Court decision to strike down the risk equalisation scheme enacted by her in view of the fact that it...
  • Mental Health Services. (10 speeches)
    Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the outcome of her discussions with the Health Service Executive regarding the allocation of €51 million in 2006 and 2007 in respect...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Hospital Acquired Infections.
  • Hospital Acquired Infections. (27 speeches)
    Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the level of hospital infections such as MRSA and C. difficile; the action taken in the past three years to tackle this...
• Leaders' Questions (36 speeches)
  This morning the Government announced its decision to give a guarantee regarding the country's financial institutions. In response to this decision I made the point that this party would respond...
• 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 Dan Neville — the...
• Business of Dáil: Motion (5 speeches)
  I move: That the sitting shall be suspended until 7.30 p.m. and that Private Members' business, which shall be No. 50, motion re energy poverty, shall take place tomorrow at 5.30 p.m. and be...
• Business of Dáil: Motion (21 speeches)
  I move: That the Dáil shall sit later than 8.30 p.m. and that the sitting be now suspended until 9 p.m. The copy of the Bill which is to be placed before the House just arrived in my office in...
• Business of Dáil: Motion (39 speeches)
  I move: That the sitting be suspended until 10 p.m. In view of a matter which has arisen——
• Order of Business (2 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 13 — motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 13a — Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008 — Financial Resolution; and No. a3 —...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Resolution of the Dáil of 14 June 2007, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral...
• Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to provide, in the public interest, for maintaining the stability of the financial system in the State and for that purpose to provide for financial support by the Minister...
• Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (67 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This House does not lightly agree to debate emergency legislation of the type that is before us this evening, but when finance, the lifeblood of...
• Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Financial Resolution (1 speech)
  I move: That provision be made in the Act giving effect to this Resolution for the imposition of certain commercial or other terms and conditions in respect of financial support that may be...