Dáil debates

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.00 p.m.
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Health Service Staff (43 speeches)
    Question 58: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of additional social workers in place at the end of 2011 compared with the start of 2011; if there is a plan in place...
  • Garda Investigations (6 speeches)
    Question 59: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has received the report of the Garda Inspectorate on Garda investigations of sexual offences against children; if she is...
  • Children in Care (6 speeches)
    Question 61: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to provide guardians to all unaccompanied children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8298/12]
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Homeless Persons (7 speeches)
    Question 63: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding her efforts to address youth homelessness. [8065/12]
  • Departmental Reports (7 speeches)
    Question 64: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish a new national children's strategy; the consultation process that will be used alongside it;...
  • Health Service Staff (6 speeches)
    Question 65: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers she intends to have in post at the end of 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. ...
• Leaders' Questions (103 speeches)
  As Members are aware, 256 residents, involving approximately 64 families, were compelled last October to leave their homes in Priory Hall in Donaghmede following a High Court order relating to...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
  • Constitutional Amendments (98 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the political representatives from the Northern Assembly to whom he has written in relation to the promised constitutional review; if they will be given a...
  • Departmental Expenditure (5 speeches)
    Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach the amounts paid month on month since march 2011 on photography in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3597/12]
• Order of Business (101 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 5, Finance Bill 2012 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m....
• 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 John Deasy - the...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Hospital Procedures (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the Minister of State for taking this very important matter, which concerns a six month old baby born under an emergency section procedure. This resulted in...
  • Disability Services (4 speeches)
    We had a debate last Thursday on disability. Politics and being in government is about making choices, in good or difficult times. The cuts in the budget announced in December and its...
  • Alternative Energy Projects (5 speeches)
    I wish the Minister a happy Valentine's Day. He might have been delayed for a particular reason and we will have to allow for that.
  • Waste Collection Services (18 speeches)
    If the Minister has followed the news, he will conclude, as I have, that the transference of household waste collection from Dublin City Council to Greyhound has been utterly shambolic from start...
• Finance Bill 2012: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further...
• Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (16 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." An empty House when the Finance Bill is being introduced must mean the crisis is over. Ireland is recovering from the most severe downturn in...
• Private Members Business (0 speeches)
  • Stroke Services (11 speeches)
    I move: That Dáil Éireann, in recognising the findings of the Irish Heart Foundation's report entitled 'Cost of Stroke in Ireland: Estimating the annual economic cost of stroke and transient...