Dáil debates

Thursday, 1 April 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 (28 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 (300 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 10, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of an initiative for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the rights to interpretation and to...
• Guardianship of Children Bill 2010: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move: "That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to vindicate the rights of the child pursuant to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child."
• EU Directive: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of...
• Banking System: Statements (318 speeches)
  I am pleased to have the opportunity to address the House this morning on the final phase measures that the Government is taking to restore stability and certainty to Ireland's banking system....
• Obesity Levels: Statements (33 speeches)
  I thank the Ceann Comhairle and Deputies for giving me this opportunity to make a statement on the subject of obesity. Obesity is a major public health problem internationally and is described...
• Ceisteanna — Questions. (0 speeches)
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  Departmental Priorities.
  • Departmental Priorities. (6 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his priorities following the restructuring of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14328/10]
  • National Drugs Strategy. (9 speeches)
    Question 2: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of complaints lodged with his Department with regard to head shops; the number of head shops in each...
  • Fostaíocht Gaeltachta. (6 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an eol dó an ghéarchéim airgeadais in Údarás na Gaeltachta agus na deacrachtaí a éiríonn as seo maidir le...
  • National Drugs Strategy. (6 speeches)
    Question 5: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will confirm that the Office of the Minister for Drugs is still in operation; if he will guarantee that a...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Inland Waterways.
  • Inland Waterways. (17 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a progress report on Waterways Ireland's work throughout the country; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Staff. (7 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number and status of staff assigned to his Department; the location of such staff; and if he will make a statement...
  • Údarás na Gaeltachta. (10 speeches)
    Question 8: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Comhionannais agus Gaeltachta cén socrú atá déanta maidir leis an toghchán d'Údarás na Gaeltachta; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina...
• 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 Ulick Burke — the need...
• Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
  Drug Treatment Programme.
  • Drug Treatment Programme. (2 speeches)
    A number of years ago, Wexford County Council, in conjunction with County Wexford VEC, agreed a transfer of land which was the former premises of Gorey technical school. I had the pleasure of...
  • Overseas Missions. (2 speeches)
    It is extremely regrettable that Ireland is being criticised for the first time by the United Nations in regard to a peacekeeping mission but, as Mary Fitzgerald highlighted in The Irish Times,...
  • Turbary Rights. (2 speeches)
    I call on the Minister to clarify the situation and to present the findings of the interdepartmental working group set up to examine the issue of the cessation of turf cutting on 32 raised bogs...
  • Dublin Docklands Development Authority.Turbary Rights. (11 speeches)
    I welcome the Minister, Deputy Gormley, to the House and thank him for taking this motion on the Adjournment. As he will be aware, last year he commissioned two reports relating to the operation...