Dáil debates
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
- Leaders' Questions (115 speeches)
The crisis in Europe continues and it appears Ireland is standing idly by while Rome burns. Three weeks ago, I wrote to the Taoiseach requesting a meeting to discuss a co-ordinated response from...
- Order of Business (111 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. a20, statements on pre-European Council meeting of 8-9 December; No. a1, Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad] - Second Stage; No. 11b, Health Insurance...
- Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (213 speeches)
I am pleased to have this opportunity to brief the House ahead of the next meeting of the European Council in Brussels on 8 and 9 December. The meeting will begin next Thursday evening with a...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (35 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to bring the Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 before the Dáil today. It is important to explain the background and the...
- Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Sub-Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31...
- Priority Questions (1 speech)
I remind Deputies that there are six minutes for each priority question - two minutes for the Minister's initial reply and four minutes overall for supplementary questions.
- Planning Issues (6 speeches)
Question 1: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his contribution to the reviewed EU-IMF agreement in regard to the proposed change of the floor space cap set...
- Building Regulations (16 speeches)
Question 2: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government with whom the responsibility lies for the enforcement of building control standards in the situation in which...
- Housing Services (6 speeches)
Question 4: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will be responding to the submission from Threshold on the overhaul of the way that he deals with...
- Water Services (14 speeches)
Question 5: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will provide funds to local authorities to update water infrastructure to deal with persistent...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Water Services (31 speeches)
Question 6: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will provide funds to local authorities to update water infrastructure to deal with persistent...
- Building Regulations (11 speeches)
Question 7: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the progress that has been made in the commitment to introduce a single national building inspectorate...
- Legislative Programme (6 speeches)
Question 8: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the new timeframe for the development of a new climate change policy; when he intends to introduce the...
- Housing Regeneration Projects (13 speeches)
Question 9: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the way the regeneration projects in Dublin, for example St Theresa's Gardens, Tom Kelly Road, St Michael's...
- Local Authority Housing (25 speeches)
Question 10: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the average rental revenue received by local authorities per council house and the amount that would be...
- Private Rented Accommodation (4 speeches)
Question 11: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his plans to improve private rental tenants awareness of their rights. [37754/11]
- Topical Issue Matters (1 speech)
I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputies Colm Keaveney and...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- EU Directives (6 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on this extremely important matter. I welcome the presence of the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton. I...
- Health Service Allowances (6 speeches)
As the Minister of State is aware, thousands of HSE staff are facing delays in the payment of travel and subsistence expenses that were due to be paid before Christmas. Staff across the HSE were...
- Hospital Services (4 speeches)
St. Joseph's District Hospital, Ballina, County Mayo, a 62-bed hospital, provides step-down facilities for patients discharged from Mayo General Hospital and those identified as requiring a...
- Public Service Staff (4 speeches)
I sincerely thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this issue and I would like to acknowledge the presence of the two Ministers of State. One of the biggest ever brain drains from...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (181 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2001 [Seanad]: Referral to Select sub-Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select sub-Committee on Environment, Community and Local Government pursuant to Standing Order 82A(3)(a) (6)(a).
- Message from Seanad (1 speech)
Seanad Éireann has passed the Road Transport Bill 2011, without amendment.
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (69 speeches)
I commend the motion from Sinn Féin calling on the Government to exempt children from shouldering the burden of recovery. It is a no-brainer and, I believe, the Minister of State opposite will...
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Financial Resolution (1 speech)
I move: That section 125A of the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 (No. 31 of 1999), which imposes a stamp duty on health insurance policies issued by health insurers, be amended to the extent...
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Health Insurance Act 1994, the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 and the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999, in particular to ensure that, in the interests of...
- Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (3 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The key principle upon which we meet health care costs as a society is that the young support the old, the healthy support the sick, and the...
