Dáil debates
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.35 p.m.
- Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
Decentralisation Programme.
- Decentralisation Programme. (82 speeches)
Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff who have applied for relocation under the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29484/08]
- Priority Questions (0 speeches)
Health Insurance.
- Health Insurance. (6 speeches)
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the assessment she has carried out to justify the introduction of recently announced private health insurance measures; the assessment...
- Health Service Staff. (14 speeches)
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive on a redundancy scheme for management grades; if there are proposals to...
- Health Services. (6 speeches)
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received the Health Service Executive's service plan for 2009; if she has approved the plan; the locations at which the level...
- Hospital Accommodation. (8 speeches)
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children to outline the funding difficulties with regard to the co-location plan; her views on the fact that more than three years since the...
- Child Care Services. (9 speeches)
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has finalised its inquiry into the circumstances relating to the death of a person, whose details are...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
Nursing Home Standards.
- Nursing Home Standards. (15 speeches)
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the standards for nursing home care, recently approved by the board of the Health Information and Quality Authority, will be...
- Health Services. (18 speeches)
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there are only three long-term care beds in Dublin north per 1,000 people over 65 years when the national average is 22; her...
- Health Insurance. (17 speeches)
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to prevent health insurance premiums of older and sicker people from soaring in view of the recent Supreme...
- 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 Mary Upton — the need...
- Leaders' Questions (34 speeches)
I am not going to stand up in the House and impugn the personal integrity of any person. The House has discussed on a number of occasions the capacity of appointees of the Government to do the...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (7 speeches)
Anois, iarratais chun tairisceana a dhéanamh an Dáil a chur ar athló faoi Bhuan Ordú 32. Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing...
- Order of Business (61 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 8, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income and Capital Gains) (Republic of Turkey) Order 2008, back from committee;...
- Double Taxation Relief Orders: Motions. (2 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income and Capital Gains) (Republic of Turkey) Order 2008, a copy of which was laid before...
- Estimates for Public Services 2008: Leave to Introduce (1 speech)
I move: "That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2008:— Vote 19 — Justice, Equality...
- Estimates for Public Services 2008: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move: "That, subject to leave being given to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on 31st December, 2008, the Supplementary Estimates be referred...
- EU Council Decision: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move: "That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion provided by Article 1.11 of the Treaty of Amsterdam to take part in the adoption of...
- Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996: Motion (1 speech)
I move: "That the proposal that Dáil Éireann resolves that sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 (No. 29 of 1996) shall continue in operation for the...
- EU Council Decision: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move: "That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion provided by Article 1.11 of the Treaty of Amsterdam to take part in the adoption of...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That the Order of Dáil Éireann of 13 March, 2008 in relation to the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children be amended in respect of the report-back date of the...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Bill before us has been framed in the context of the most difficult economic and financial climate in a generation. The upheaval and...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (18 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: seriously concerned at the crisis situation now facing many small and medium sized enterprises arising from the credit famine and which is contributing very...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed). (32 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
Home Help Services.
- Home Help Services. (2 speeches)
I ask the Minister for Health and Children how much longer elderly people will have to remain on home help priority waiting lists in counties Roscommon and Leitrim, my constituency area, before...
- Schools Building Projects. (3 speeches)
Tá áthas orm go bhfuil an tAire Stáit anseo. Tá súil agam go dtuigfidh sí mo chuid Gaeilge. Is scoil lán-Ghaeilge í Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair. Foghlaimítear gach ábhar trí mheán na...
- Northern Ireland Issues. (2 speeches)
I begin by extending my deepest sympathy and continuing solidarity to the family of Aidan McAnespie. I wish to remember especially his late sister Eilish McCabe who died earlier this year. She...
- Teaching Qualifications. (7 speeches)
I am disappointed that neither the Minister for Education and Science nor a Minister of State at his Department is present for this debate. That is no reflection on the Minister of State, Deputy...
