Dáil debates

Thursday, 12 March 2009

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Order of Business (132 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 9b, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 3, Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009 — Committee and Remaining Stages; and No. 13, Employment Law...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or in the Resolution of the Dáil of 14th June, 2007, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be...
• Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (78 speeches)
  Section 1 agreed to.
• Employment Law Compliance Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Employment Law Compliance 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 122(1) and paragraph 1(a)(i) of the Orders of Reference of that...
• Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Electricity Price Regulation.
  • Electricity Price Regulation. (10 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he plans to change the electricity price regulation structure here to allow the ESB to compete on price in...
  • Broadcasting Legislation. (11 speeches)
    Question 2: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views, in the context of the Broadcasting Bill, on setting up one regulator, combining ComReg and the...
  • Bio-fuel Industry. (17 speeches)
    Question 3: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that the mineral oil tax relief scheme II is adequate to develop an indigenous bio-fuel...
  • Alternative Energy Projects. (12 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether the export tariff recently announced to facilitate the sale of electricity onto the grid...
  • Departmental Bodies. (10 speeches)
    Question 5: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to privatise or sell off State assets or State companies under the remit of his Department as a revenue...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Alternative Energy Projects.
  • Alternative Energy Projects. (32 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the ocean energy fund; the amount of the fund that will be spent in 2009; the projects...
  • Telecommunications Services. (21 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress being made on agreeing and signing the management contract for the MANs II infrastructure; and if he...
  • Energy Costs. (44 speeches)
    Question 8: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way the reduction of 10% in the regulated domestic electricity price and the reduction of the 12% in the...
• 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 Charles Flanagan, the...
• Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
  Taxi Regulations.
  • Taxi Regulations. (2 speeches)
    I am delighted to have the opportunity to raise this issue. The taxi regulator produced the review of the taxi and hackney market during the week and she did not recommend a moratorium on taxi...
  • Social Welfare Services. (3 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter and for allowing me to discuss it with the Minister of State. I call on the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Mary Hanafin, to...
  • School Accommodation. (16 speeches)
    A Cheann Comhairle, I am pleased that you are presiding over this debate, because I may have to call on you for clarification before I am finished. I have been raising this issue for many years....
• Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Health and Children has concluded its consideration of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008 and has made amendments thereto.