Dáil debates

Thursday, 19 February 2009

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Requests to move Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 (4 speeches)
  Anois, iarratais chun tairisceana a dhéanamh an Dáil a chur ar athló faoi Bhuan Ordú 32, requests to move the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32.
• Order of Business (165 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 8a, motion re referral to joint committee of the proposed approval by Dáil Éireann for a Council decision on the establishment of the European Criminal Records...
• Anglo Irish Bank Corporation (No. 2) Bill 2009: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move: Bill entitled an Act to provide for the appointment of an inspector into the affairs of Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited; and to provide for connected matters.
• Juries (Amendment) Bill 2008: Leave to Withdraw (2 speeches)
  I call on Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh to move the motion.
• EU Council Decisions: Referrals to Joint Committee (2 speeches)
  I move: That the proposal that Dáil Eireann 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 the...
• Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Order for Second Stage (2 speeches)
  Before we begin, I wish to clarify for the benefit of member the application of Standing Order 56 on reopening the debate on a matter discussed in the last six months. It might appear that the...
• Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage (230 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be read a Second Time". As I said in this House last Tuesday evening, we are now fighting for the economic future of our country. The global financial crisis, the worst in...
• Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Hospital Accommodation.
  • Hospital Accommodation. (44 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is a 30% increase in delayed discharges from acute hospitals between 2007 and 2008 which lost the hospital system 216,885...
  • Hospital Services. (6 speeches)
    Question 3: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, given the findings of the national report on traumatic brain Injury (details supplied), her views on whether the current system is...
  • Medical Cards. (9 speeches)
    Question 5: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that bereaved pensioners over 70 years who automatically qualified for the medical card prior...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Hospital Staff.
  • Hospital Staff. (10 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made in implementing the European working time directive for non-consultant hospital doctors which limits the...
  • Clinical Indemnity Scheme. (13 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to address the legal expenses claimed by lawyers when their clients are awarded damages under the clinical...
  • Health Services. (20 speeches)
    Question 8: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish the Health Service Executive Health Information and Quality Authority and social services inspectorate reports on...
  • Health Service Staff. (19 speeches)
    Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the proposed voluntary retirement scheme for Health Service Executive staff; and if she will make a statement on...
  • National Health Strategy. (16 speeches)
    Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding has been identified and ring-fenced for the implementation of the new national men's health policy 2008-13; and if she will...
• 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 Martin Ferris — the...
• Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
  Job Losses.
  • Job Losses. (2 speeches)
    I welcome a number of developments in my county. I welcome the approval granted today by An Bord Pleanála to the massive development at the John Mitchel's-Austin Stack Park site in Tralee....
  • Health Services. (2 speeches)
    I raise the issue of services in St. John's Hospital in Limerick and seek clarity on it in the context of the proposed so-called reconfiguration of acute hospital services in the mid-west. There...
  • Schools Building Projects. (2 speeches)
    I have raised this issue a number of times on the Adjournment and tabled various questions to the Minister for Education and Science. Gaelscoil Bharra, a scoil lán-Ghaelach, was founded in 1996...