Dáil debates

Tuesday, 11 November 2008

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.
• Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
  Departmental Expenditure.
  • Departmental Expenditure. (41 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the projected cost to date of the communications unit in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29464/08]
  • Interdepartmental Committees. (19 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach when the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnership will next meet; the number of meetings of the team planned for the remainder of...
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Social Welfare Fraud.
  • Social Welfare Fraud. (9 speeches, 1 comment)
    Question 90: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made on her announcement in July 2008 to achieve targeted savings of €25 million by tackling fraud; and if she will...
  • Child Support. (32 speeches)
    Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the consideration she has given to the implications of the proposed removal of child benefit in respect of 18 year olds for the...
  • Social Welfare Code. (18 speeches)
    Question 92: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide details of the increased controls designed to achieve savings which were initially intended to be realised by...
  • Social Welfare Benefits. (24 speeches)
    Question 93: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason she has not used the social welfare Bill as an opportunity to address the eligibility criteria for the back-to-education...
  • Departmental Staff. (29 speeches)
    Question 94: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide details on the transfer of the Combat Poverty Agency to the Office for Social Inclusion; and if she will make a...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Social Welfare Benefits.
  • Social Welfare Benefits. (24 speeches)
    Question 95: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made on the reform of rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39390/08]
  • Combat Poverty Agency. (45 speeches)
    Question 96: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way the inclusion of the Combat Poverty Agency with the Office for Social Inclusion will proceed; and if she will make a...
• 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 Seymour Crawford — the...
• Leaders' Questions (18 speeches)
  I begin by offering my sympathy and the sympathy of the Fine Gael Party to the family and friends of the late Mr. Shane Geoghegan, who was gunned down at the weekend. I also offer sympathy to...
• Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (29 speeches)
  Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 32. I propose to call the Deputies in the order in which they submitted notices to my office.
• Order of Business (34 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 2, Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 — Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that...
• Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Order for Second Stage (4 speeches)
  Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts, the Pensions Act 1990 and the Comhairle Act 2000, to amend and extend the functions of the Citizens Information Board, to amend...
• Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (5 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has concluded its consideration of the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008 and has made amendments thereto.
• Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
• Vaccination Programme: Motion (41 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: noting: the findings of the Health Information and Quality Authority whereby the introduction of the HPV cervical cancer vaccination programme could see a 34 per cent...
• Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights has completed its consideration of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2008 and has made amendments thereto.
• Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 speeches)
  The following motion was moved by the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Mary Hanafin, on 11 November 2008:
• Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
  Job Creation.
  • Job Creation. (2 speeches)
    I wrote to the chief executive of IDA Ireland last January, Mr. Barry O'Leary, requesting a meeting about the decision to put the Tralee-based company Telestone on the market, and about growing...
  • Crime Levels. (15 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this critical matter for the people of Limerick. I also thank the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform for attending the House for...
  • Army Barracks Closures. (16 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me time to discuss this matter which is of the utmost importance to County Longford, namely, the urgent need for the Minister for Defence to reverse his...