Dáil debates

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Dé Céadaoin, 9 Nollaig 2009
• Leaders' Questions (55 speeches)
  Budget day is always a big day for the Minister for Finance. This is not the first budget, the Minister, Deputy Brian Lenihan, has presented but it may well be the last. We would not be in this...
• Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Éireann has passed the Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009 without amendment.
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
  Departmental Staff.
  • Departmental Staff. (36 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions since June 1997 to date in 2009 on which officials in his Department, or in the agencies under his aegis, were granted either a...
  • Social Partnership Negotiations. (36 speeches)
    Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting on 20 October 2009 with the social partners. [38395/09]
• Order of Business (23 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 41a, Budget Statement and the financial motions by the Minister for Finance, to be taken on the conclusion of questions to members of the Government. It is proposed,...
• Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
• Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (45 speeches, 5 comments)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its consideration of the Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 and has made amendments thereto.
• Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Harbour Authorities.
  • Harbour Authorities. (6 speeches)
    Question 23: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a copy of the Deloitte report into the Shannon Foynes Port Company; if he carried out an internal investigation into alleged...
  • Aviation Industry. (9 speeches)
    Question 24: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the impact of reductions in passenger volumes on airline carriers and new aviation infrastructure including...
  • Local Authority Funding. (9 speeches)
    Question 25: To ask the Minister for Transport the way he will finance local authorities sufficiently to improve the conditions of roads, in view of the fact that 70% of all road deaths take...
  • Rail Services. (13 speeches)
    Question 26: To ask the Minister for Transport the recommendations he has made on the proposed public service obligation funding for Irish Rail for 2010; if he has been informed by Irish Rail of...
  • Rail Network. (11 speeches)
    Question 27: To ask the Minister for Transport the proportions of the €39.6 million of trans-European cross-border funding that were spent on the Belfast to Dublin and Dublin to Cork sections...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Railway Procurement Processes.
  • Railway Procurement Processes. (21 speeches)
    Question 28: To ask the Minister for Transport the action he has taken following the publication of the CIE commissioned Baker Tilly Ryan Glennon report on alleged irregularities in the...
  • Road Safety. (11 speeches)
    Question 29: To ask the Minister for Transport the commitments from the road safety strategy that have been implemented to date in 2009; the commitments that remain to be implemented; and if he...
  • Performance Indicators. (8 speeches)
    Question 30: To ask the Minister for Transport the additional performance indicators which will be included in the contracts and MoUs for each of CIE company for 2010; and if he will make a...
  • Public Transport. (8 speeches)
    Question 31: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the appointment of members to the board of the National Transport Authority; if there will be a public competition for these...
  • Road Safety. (16 speeches)
    Question 32: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the Report on Major Incidences in Tunnels, (SI 213 of 2006), prepared by the National Roads Authority; and if he will make a statement...
  • Public Transport. (4 speeches)
    Question 33: To ask the Minister for Transport if CIE has submitted a programme to him for the implementation of operational efficiencies, improved timetabling and co-ordination as highlighted...
  • Departmental Bodies. (3 speeches)
    Question 34: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received reports of any alleged wrongdoing in companies or agencies under the aegis of his Department; the action he has taken as a...
• Financial Resolutions 2010 (0 speeches)
• Budget Statement 2010 (131 speeches, 1 comment)
  Before calling on the Minister for Finance, I remind Members that the budget documents being circulated remain confidential until the Minister has announced them. They should not be taken or...
• Allocation of Time: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders the Financial Motions by the Minister for Finance shall for the purpose of debate be moved and grouped together in accordance with the...
• Financial Resolutions 2009 (0 speeches)
• Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (54 speeches)
  I move: (1) THAT for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 75 of the Finance Act 2003 (No. 3 of 2003), that Act be amended, with effect as on and from 10 December 2009, by...
• Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (368 speeches)
  I move: (1) THAT the Finance Act 1999 (No. 2 of 1999) be amended with effect as on and from 10 December 2009— (a) for the purposes of the tax charged by virtue of section 95 of that Act, by...
• Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (110 speeches)
  I move: (1) THAT the rate of value-added tax on the supply of certain goods and services at present chargeable at the rate of 21.5 per cent be decreased to 21 per cent of the amount on which tax...
• Financial Resolution No. 4: Value-Added Tax (1 speech)
  I move: (1) THAT the Value-Added Tax Act 1972 (No. 22 of 1972) be amended (a) in section 1 (i) by inserting the following definition after the definition of "assignment": "'auction scheme' has...
• Financial Resolution No. 5: General (1 speech)
  I move: THAT it is expedient to amend the law relating to inland revenue (including value-added tax and excise) and to make further provision in connection with finance.