Dáil debates

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Insurance Industry (6 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Health the measures he intends to take to deal with the drop off in the number of persons that have private health insurance; the measures he will take to...
  • National Service Plan 2012 (15 speeches)
    Question 2: To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Health Service Executive draft service plan for 2012; if he has approved all or part of it; the process for assessment of its...
  • Health Services (6 speeches)
    Question 3: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that cuts in the health budget in 2012 will severely impact on frontline services and will result in longer waiting times for...
  • Insurance Industry (10 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health if he has carried out an impact analysis of changes in Budget 2012 to generate extra revenue from private health insurers and their customers; and if...
  • HSE Senior Management Remuneration (16 speeches)
    Question 5: To ask the Minister for Health if the number of senior managers in the Health Service Executive receiving salaries of more than €100,000 per annum will be reduced as part of the...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Health Services (32 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to tackle hospital deficits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1195/12]
  • Mental Health Services (11 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to cut respite facilities in psychiatric units like those in Ballina, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1177/12]
  • Universal Health Insurance (12 speeches)
    Question 8: To ask the Minister for Health the model of health care on which universal health insurance is likely to be based; the other models being examined; and if he will make a statement...
• 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) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Employment Rights (11 speeches)
    This is an extremely important matter which relates to the rights of workers in general and those of 32 employees at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork in particular. They have been exploited and...
  • Job Losses (13 speeches)
    I raise the issue of the rights and entitlements of the La Senza workers. I ask the Minister about the treatment of the workers and the way the issue has been dealt with by their employers....
  • Tax Collection (14 speeches)
    The budget announced by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, on 7 December provided for additional taxation receipts from the targeting of pensioners by the Revenue Commissioners,...
  • Local Authority Charges (4 speeches)
    As the Topical Issue matter suggests, I am looking for an exemption under section 4.4 of the household charge legislation to grant exemptions for homes affected by the pyrite epidemic that has...
• Leaders' Questions (48 speeches)
  Without any warning or preparation, 150,000 pensioners received letters from the Revenue Commissioners to inform them they had underpaid their taxes due to a failure on their part to include...
• Order of Business (110 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 8, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; and No. 4, Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011, Order for Second Stage and Second...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 9th March, 2011, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral...
• Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to give effect to Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on temporary agency work; for that purpose to amend certain...
• Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (12 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to present the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011 for the consideration of the House. The Bill marks an...
• Private Members' Business, Special Educational Needs: Motion (20 speeches)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: — recognises the right of every child to equal opportunity through education as enshrined in Article 28.1 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and that...