Dáil debates

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 14.30 p.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions. (0 speeches)
  Questions Nos. 1 to 29 resubmitted.
  • Oireachtas Reform (83 speeches)
    Question 30: To ask the Taoiseach Taoiseach his plans for Dáil Éireann reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4598/10]
• Priority Questions. (0 speeches)
  Accident and Emergency Services
  • Accident and Emergency Services (12 speeches)
    Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of the Health Service Executive plans to close or limit accident and emergency opening hours across the country as a result...
  • Hospital Services (6 speeches)
    Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the advice she will give to hospitals such as Beaumont whose financial allocation is not adequate to address the needs of patients in...
  • Health Insurance Providers (17 speeches)
    Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the VHI fulfilled its legal obligation to achieve solvency by the end of March 2010 deadline set by herself; the number of times she...
  • Hospitals Building Programme (9 speeches)
    Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if building work has commenced at any of the eight co-location sites regarding her plan to fast track 1,000 public beds through the...
  • Child Care Services (15 speeches)
    Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent report of the Ombudsman for Children based on an investigation on the implementation of Children First: National...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Proposed Legislation
  • Proposed Legislation (19 speeches)
    Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress she has made to date in drafting legislation to clarify eligibility for health and social services; and if she will make a...
  • Health Service Appointments (8 speeches)
    Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details on the recruitment of the next chief executive of the Health Service Executive; the number of candidates that have expressed...
  • Proposed Legislation (9 speeches)
    Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce legislation to underpin the provision of services and supports of persons who were injured by thalidomide; if she...
• 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...
• Leaders' Questions. (46 speeches)
  I know that the Tánaiste is standing in for the Taoiseach, who is in Madrid today. The Pfizer company announced the loss of 785 jobs this afternoon in a number of locations throughout the...
• Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil Under Standing Order 32 (14 speeches)
  Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 32. I will call the Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.
• Order of Business. (132 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 11, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; and No. 6, the Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed,...
• 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...
• Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to facilitate in the public interest the safeguarding of the financial stability of the Euro area as a whole and for that purpose to enable payments to be made out of the...
• Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (14 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Bill before Members today will enable Ireland to play its part along with all other euro area countries in providing financial support to...
• Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its consideration of the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2010 and has made no amendments thereto.
• Private Members' Business. (0 speeches)
  Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion
  • Constitutional Amendment on Children: Motion (20 speeches)
    I move: That Dáil Éireann: - welcomes the final report of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children published on 16 February, 2010; - commends the members of the committee...
• Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (62 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Adjournment Debate. (0 speeches)
  Home Help Services
  • Home Help Services (2 speeches)
    I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for selecting this issue for discussion. It is an important issue both nationally and locally. I was appalled recently at a health board meeting when I was...
  • Children in Care (4 speeches, 2 comments)
    I have already expressed in the House today my condolences to the family of Daniel McAnaspie on his tragic death and I repeat those condolences. It is particularly appalling that almost three...
  • European Globalisation Fund (2 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for permission to bring this matter to the floor of the House. This matter concerns employees of Alienware, which is in Athlone. It is a wholly-owned...
  • School Accommodation (2 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise this very important issue in the parish of Herbertstown. On behalf of the board of management, principal and staff of...