Dáil debates

Thursday, 26 January 2012

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Leaders' Questions (114 speeches)
  We welcome the publication yesterday of the personal insolvency Bill and are gratified that it takes on board many of the suggestions we made in the legislation we brought before the Oireachtas...
• Order of Business (52 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 7a, motion re membership of committees; No. 7b, motion re referral of papers to Joint Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture; No. 7c, motion re...
• Membership of Committees: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That Deputy Joe Costello (Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) be discharged from the Select Committee on European Union Affairs and that Deputy Dominic...
• Referral of Papers to Joint Committee: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, in relation to the role of the Oireachtas Joint Committee under the Broadcasting Act 2009, the papers connected therewith of the Joint Committee on Communications, Energy and...
• Report of Joint Committee: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That Dáil Éireann: — notes the Report of the Joint Committee on Investigations, Oversight and Petitions on 'Revised Orders of Reference for the Joint Committee', copies of which were...
• Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Éireann has passed the Patents (Amendment) Bill 2011, without amendment.
• Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (303 speeches)
  Debate resumed on amendment No. 3:
• Inter-Country Adoption: Statements (19 speeches)
  I welcome the opportunity provided by today's debate to discuss and reflect upon the important issue of inter-country adoption. I am conscious that this is a topic of much interest to Deputies...
• 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 Simon Harris - the need...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Copyright Regulation (28 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this important topical matter for debate. I have serious concerns about the wording of the statutory instrument published by the Minister of State,...
  • Community Development (9 speeches)
    The common denominator in the four jobs in question is that the areas in which they are located are areas with high unemployment levels, many social problems and a significant drug problem. Many...
  • General Medical Services Scheme (13 speeches)
    I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, for responding to this matter. I congratulate her on her promotion. I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise in the House the need to...
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Social Welfare Benefits (14 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will discuss correspondence sent out in a number of local authority areas over the past two weeks to rent supplement recipients...
  • Community Employment Schemes (14 speeches)
    Question 2: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she did not conduct a review of community employment schemes prior to her decision to cut the training and materials budgets by...
  • Social Welfare Benefits (10 speeches)
    Question 3: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the continuous delay in processing applications for social welfare benefits and allowances and in particular the average of...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Social Welfare Code (8 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason there is no review system in place that involves medical and parental input regarding the suspension of payment of domiciliary...
  • Social Welfare Benefits (9 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated number of families that will be impacted by the budget cut reducing the back to school clothing and footwear allowance from...
  • Departmental Expenditure (8 speeches)
    Question 8: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the Troika in their most recent review of the EU IMF agreement implementation or in previous reviews brought up any specific issue in...