Dáil debates
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
- Leaders' Questions (203 speeches)
This is our last Leaders' Questions before the Dáil rises for the summer recess. It comes on the eve of a critically important meeting for this country and for the future of Europe. We have...
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (12 speeches)
Before coming to the Order of Business, I propose to deal with a number of requests under Standing Order 32. I will call the Deputies in the order in which the requests were received.
- Order of Business (36 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 11, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (back from committee); No. 10, motion re proposed...
- Suspension of Member (7 speeches)
I move: "That Deputy Mattie McGrath be suspended from the service of the Dáil."
- Order of Business (Resumed) (75 speeches)
I call the Taoiseach to respond to the objections by Deputy Ó Snodaigh on behalf of Sinn Féin and Deputy Joe Higgins on behalf of the Socialist Party regarding the arrangements for the taking...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Departmental Functions (193 speeches)
Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will publish a specific list of public affairs which are connected with his Department and matters of administration for which he is officially...
- Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2011: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: The Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011, copies of which have been laid in draft form before...
- Business of Dáil (1 speech)
I move: That notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the order of the Dáil of this day that Question Time shall be taken for 75 minutes on the conclusion of the opening speeches of No....
- Victims of Crime: Motion (5 speeches)
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...
- Eurozone Heads of State and Government Meeting: Statements (32 speeches)
Statements are confined to the Taoiseach and to the main spokespersons for Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and the Technical Group. I call the Taoiseach to make his statement.
- Commission of Investigation Report in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (11 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann: — notes the publication of the report by the Commission of Investigation into the handling by Church and State authorities of allegations and suspicions of child...
- Messages from Select Committees (1 speech)
The Select Sub-Committee on Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December...
- Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Benefits (10 speeches)
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that there will be no cuts to current rates of social welfare payments. [21598/11]
- Pension Provisions (6 speeches)
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way in which she will reform the systems of payments from her Department, through the provision of part pensions to persons nearing...
- Social Welfare Benefits (15 speeches)
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has satisfied herself that there are sufficient supports in place to help people struggling to pay their electricity fuel and...
- Employment Support Services (11 speeches)
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria by which placements offered by organisation in the national internship scheme are judged appropriate and posted to the...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Benefits (14 speeches)
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will offer a commitment that there will be no further cuts to the various social welfare payments for carers; and if she will make...
- Community Welfare Service (12 speeches)
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position on the integration of community welfare officers into her Department, including whether it will be fully completed by...
- Social Welfare Appeals (12 speeches)
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 10 May 2011, 28 out of the 166 applications finalised by the Social Welfare Appeals Office in...
- 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 Nicky McFadden - the...
- Commission of Investigation Report in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (Resumed) (23 speeches)
The following motion was moved by the Taoiseach on Wednesday, 20 July 2011:
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (83 speeches)
I move amendment No. 6: In page 15, lines 35 and 36, to delete "authority for the purposes of the Directive" and substitute the following: "authority. The Minister shall reserve the right to veto...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2011: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation pursuant to Standing Order 82A (3)(a) and 6(a) of the orders of reference of that committee.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 speech)
Sections 1 to 12, inclusive, agreed to.
- Common Fisheries Policy Reform: Statements (59 speeches)
I propose to share time with Deputies Harrington and McHugh. Our purpose this evening is to discuss the Common Fisheries Policy which was debated yesterday for the first time in a real sense at...
- Adjournment Debate (0 speeches)
- Waste Disposal (2 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this issue on the Adjournment. I will give a brief history on the landfill site at Kerdiffstown, County Kildare, close to which I live. In...
- Litter Pollution (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for granting me leave to raise this Adjournment matter. In particular, I thank the Minister for taking this debate, which I have raised so that I might ask...
- Mental Health Services (2 speeches)
Let me first commend Deputy Kathleen Lynch in her new role as Minister of State with for mental health and on her efforts to progress services and facilities for citizens with mental health...
- Medical Cards (5 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for allowing this matter to be debated on the Adjournment. I also thank the Minister for being present. It is g good to see a Cabinet Minister here at this...
