Dáil debates
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 14.30 p.m.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Departmental Appointments (40 speeches)
Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the basis upon which the new second secretary of his Department will report to the Tánaiste for half of his or her responsibilities; and if he will make a...
- Scientific Research (8 speeches)
Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the nature and extent of the involvement of his Department on the Interdepartmental Group on Science, Technology and Innovation; the instructions he has given...
- Official Engagements (18 speeches)
Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the ICTU national conference. [19529/11]
- European Council Meetings (13 speeches)
Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will elaborate on the clarification given to him by EU leaders at the European Council in June that if anything untoward were to happen in Greece that...
- Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Child Protection (8 speeches)
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide further information regarding her plans to bring legislative proposals to Government putting the revised...
- Proposed Legislation (7 speeches)
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will advise on the progress made towards the publication of the Government's proposed wording of the Children's Rights...
- Missing Persons (5 speeches)
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when funding will be released to enable Ireland to implement the Europe wide missing children's hotline; and the reason for the...
- Children in Care (6 speeches)
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to meet her target for 100 per cent of children in care to be allocated a social worker and to have a...
- Early Childhood Education (6 speeches)
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the future of the early childhood care and education scheme. [19977/11]
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Children's Rights (8 speeches)
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish the State's next report to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; and if...
- Early Childhood Education (8 speeches)
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reasons for the strict age range for eligibility under the early childhood care and education school free preschool year; if...
- Child Abuse (13 speeches)
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her policy on mandatory reporting of child abuse, wilful neglect and physical or emotional abuse; her plans to introduce...
- 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) Michael Healy-Rae - the cost of...
- Leaders' Questions (173 speeches)
Before beginning Leaders' Questions, I reiterate the rules governing this. Two minutes are allocated to the presentation of the question, three minutes are allocated to the reply and there is...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (57 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 Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my office.
- Order of Business (108 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 10, motion re presentation and circulation of Revised Estimates 2011; No. 11, Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 – financial resolution; No. 12, motion...
- Presentation of Revised Estimates: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 159(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...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Financial Resolution (1 speech)
I move: That provision be made in the Act giving effect to this Resolution for the charging in accordance with the Act of increased levies on plastic bags; of increased levies on the landfill of...
- Proposal on Passenger Name Record Data: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the proposal 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...
- Message from Seanad (1 speech)
Seanad Éireann has passed the Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011 without amendment.
- Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the year ending on 31 December 2011: Votes 19, 20,...
- Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (9 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." There are many important provisions in the Bill on a wide range of measures. The Bill provides for amendment of the law on civil legal aid,...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (61 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — every child has the right to equal opportunity through education as enshrined in Article 28.1 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;...
- Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2001 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality pursuant to Standing Order 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a).
- Revised Estimates for Public Services 2011: Messages from Select Committees (1 speech)
The Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the year ending 31 December 2011: Vote 38; and the Select...
- Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Benefits (2 speeches)
Since February 2011 the provision of new rent allowance and mortgage assistance claims for my constituents in Dublin North are being directed to a PO box address in Santry. It has resulted in...
- Local Authority Housing (2 speeches)
The new prescribed income limits for local authority housing are completely and absolutely inadequate and are placing families in difficult situations in which they can be approved neither for...
- Hospital Services (2 speeches)
The Health Service Executive, HSE, told the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, in February in a progress report what it was doing to curtail risks at several smaller hospitals. The...
- Port Development (2 speeches)
I acknowledge the presence of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, in the Chamber. This is a matter in which I have a personal interest, especially as it relates to my...
