Dáil debates

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Leaders' Questions (163 speeches)
  In September 2008 the Taoiseach gave this House and the country two guarantees: that the Government would stabilise the banking system and that it would provide for credit to flow to business....
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
  Public Procurement Policy.
  • Public Procurement Policy. (39 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if there is a corporate procurement plan in place in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48409/09]
  • Tribunals of Inquiry. (18 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the cost that accrued to his Department in respect of the Moriarty tribunal during 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48411/09]
• Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (6 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...
• Order of Business (136 speeches)
  The Order of Business is No. 20, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the National Economic and Social Forum and National Centre for Partnership and Performance Dissolution Order...
• Fines Bill 2009: Order for Report Stage. (1 speech)
  I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
• Fines Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages. (62 speeches)
  Amendments Nos. 1 and 4, which arise from committee proceedings, are related and may be discussed together.
• Business of Dáil (7 speeches)
  I move: That notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the order of the Dáil of this day, the proceedings in respect of No. 20 shall be taken at 6.35 p.m. and shall, if not previously...
• Message From Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Health and Children has completed its consideration of the Adoption Bill 2009 and has made amendments thereto.
• Ceisteanna _ Questions (0 speeches)
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• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Mental Health Services.
  • Mental Health Services. (14 speeches)
    Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that vulnerable patients with psychiatric or intellectual disabilities continue to be housed in archaic...
  • Public Sector Reform. (6 speeches)
    Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a report issued by the Department of the Taoiseach under the auspices of the Organisational Review Programme (details...
  • Hospital Accommodation. (10 speeches)
    Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of acute hospital beds closed nationally; the reason those beds are closed; the details of her plans to close an additional...
  • Industrial Disputes. (6 speeches)
    Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans that are in place to ensure patients and their families are protected and will have access to the information they need in the...
  • Child Abuse. (31 speeches)
    Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the report relating to the abuse of children (details supplied) and the failure of our child protection services to intervene...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Interdepartmental Committees.
  • Interdepartmental Committees. (11 speeches)
    Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role her Department plays in interdepartmental actions to reduce the effect of poverty on health outcomes; if there is a strategy in...
  • Health Services. (12 speeches)
    Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the comparisons she has made between the costs of running similar services in the public and private hospital sectors; the degree to...
  • Cancer Screening Programme. (9 speeches)
    Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when bowel cancer screening will commence; if it is intended that the hospital personnel who currently carry out symptomatic screening...
  • Health Service Appointments. (10 speeches)
    Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details on the recruitment of the next chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive; the number of candidates who have...
  • Rare Diseases. (6 speeches)
    Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she plans to develop a national plan for rare diseases; the consultations she has had with rare disease and genetic disorder patient...
• 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 O'Rourke - the...
• Fines Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (38 speeches)
  Debate resumed on amendment No. 47:
• Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services and Electronic Communications Infrastructure) Bill 2009: From the Seanad (28 speeches)
  The Dáil went into Committee to consider amendments from the Seanad.
• Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• National Economic and Social Forum and National Centre for Partnership and Performance Dissolution Order 2010: Motion (7 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: National Economic and Social Forum and National Centre for Partnership and Performance Dissolution Order 2010, copies of which...
• Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
• Civil Liability (Good Samaritans and Volunteers) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
  Industrial Relations.
  • Industrial Relations. (4 speeches)
    I thank whoever chooses the matters to be discussed on the Adjournment for giving me the opportunity to speak this evening. I tabled this matter because over the weekend I remembered that some...
  • Official Engagements. (2 speeches)
    This issue arose from two incidents, the visit of the ambassador of Israel to Carrickmacross and then the decision of Carrickmacross Town Council to remove the page which he had signed from the...
  • River Basin Management Plan. (2 speeches)
    I would like to thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me time to discuss the important matter of the River Shannon basin district. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local...
  • Grant Payments. (2 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this important issue for discussion on the Adjournment. The difficulty in respect of this matter relates to the fact that the livelihoods of upland...