Dáil debates

Thursday, 18 February 2010

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (31 speeches)
  Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 32. I will call on the Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.
• Order of Business (560 speeches, 1 comment)
  It is proposed to take No. b12, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions------
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Resolution of the Dáil of 14 June, 2007, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral...
• Presentation of Revised Estimates: Motion (11 speeches)
  I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 154(1) or (2) of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business, Revised Estimates for the Public Services for the year ending 31...
• Finance Bill 2010: Financial Resolutions (4 speeches)
  I move the following Resolutions: THAT section 236 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39 of 1997), which provides relief from income tax in respect of the loan of certain art objects within...
• Finance Bill 2010: Allocation of Time Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders: (1) The proceedings in the Select Committee on Finance and the Public Service on the Finance Bill 2010 shall be brought to a conclusion...
• Re-appointment of An Coimisinéir Teanga: Motion (8 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann recommends Mr Seán Ó Cuirreáin for re-appointment by the President to be An Coimisinéir Teanga. Ba mhaith liom an rún seo, a phlé muid i gcoiste Oireachtais...
• George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (41 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am happy to introduce to the House the George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010. This Bill amends the George Mitchell...
• George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (48 speeches)
  Sections 1 and 2 agreed to.
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Controlled Drugs Sales.
  • Controlled Drugs Sales. (11 speeches)
    Question 2: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps he will take to close or regulate head shops in view of the serious public concern and the potential damage...
  • Decentralisation Programme. (18 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost involved in acquiring a permanent site for the proposed decentralisation of his Department to County Mayo;...
  • Tax Code. (8 speeches)
    Question 3: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the representations he has had from rural groups on the introduction of the carbon tax on rural Ireland; the...
  • Security of the Elderly. (24 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the commitment to the community supports for older people scheme in 2010; his views on whether older persons are not...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Community Service Programmes.
  • Community Service Programmes. (16 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the allowances and grants which participants of the rural social scheme can claim; the specific criteria, payment and...
  • Departmental Expenditure. (16 speeches)
    Question 9: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount, extent and value of budgetary cutbacks in his Department in 2010; the degree to which it has affected the...
  • Community Development. (11 speeches)
    Question 10: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made to re-instate the scheme for áisitheoirí pobail for the smaller Gaeltacht areas; and if he 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 Michael Ring - Bed...
• Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
  Hospital Accommodation.
  • Hospital Accommodation. (2 speeches)
    The people of Erris are very disturbed by the rumours emanating from the HSE regarding the closure of 20 beds in the hospital in Belmullet. Erris is as big as County Louth. The people of the...
  • Local Authority Housing. (2 speeches)
    Currently, local authorities have an entitlement to dispose of their social housing, thereby allowing tenants to purchase their own homes, but local authority tenants of flats and apartments do...
  • Computerisation Programme. (2 speeches)
    The Smart Schools = Smart Economy report was published in a blaze of glory on 16 November 2009. Nobody can disagree with the need for this initiative, given the ICT system in our schools is of...
  • Schools Building Projects. (2 speeches)
    I was delighted to hear Deputy Hayes speaking about the new contractual arrangements for the provision of much-needed ICT systems in schools. I am sure the Minister of State will agree that the...