Dáil debates

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Leaders' Questions (92 speeches)
  Despite all the election promises and Government spin, many people's experience of the health service is becoming worse by the day. Dismissing the board of the Health Service Executive without...
• Order of Business (192 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 14, Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages, to adjourn at 5.30 p.m., if not previously concluded; and No....
• Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for termination of pregnancy where a real and substantial risk to the life of the pregnant woman exists; to make...
• Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
  I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
• Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (74 speeches)
  I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, to delete lines 18 and 19. The net effect of the amendment is to remove section 1(2) from the Bill. The Bill would therefore come into effect when it was...
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Credit Availability (6 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the pillar banks are genuinely meeting the targets for lending into the domestic economy; and his views that a more...
  • Banks Recapitalisation (17 speeches)
    Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the work of the Troika technical group dealing with the Anglo Irish Bank promissory note; if he will provide an update on his...
  • Tax Collection (6 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the recent initiative by the Revenue to ensure tax compliance among pensioners following on from the 150,000 letters issued by...
  • National Asset Management Agency (8 speeches)
    Question 5: To ask the Minister for Finance if he accepts that the use of the effective interest rate methodology by the National Assets Management Agency in the Q3 of 2010 accounts rather than...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Banks Recapitalisation (8 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the total amount of money required by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation from the Exchequer to enable IBRC to pay their total...
  • Job Creation (8 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Finance with respect to Key Action 12 in the Action Plan for Jobs, the amount of moneys that will be available from the National Pension Reserve Fund to...
  • State Banking Sector (44 speeches)
    Question 8: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding discussions between him and the ECB on the promissory notes for Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and if he will make a...
• Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Eireann has passed the Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2011 without amendment.
• 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 Pearse Doherty - the...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Shannon LNG Project (9 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter, the importance of which is evident from the fact that four Deputies from County Kerry have tabled it for topical issue debate. I was angered...
  • Northern Ireland Issues (4 speeches)
    I welcome the Minister for Justice and Equality. I wish to commend the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains on the work it has been doing. It has had a number of specific...
  • Medical Cards (8 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle and his office for providing me with the opportunity to debate this issue and I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, for coming to the Chamber to respond to...
• Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 speeches)
  I move amendment No. 27: In page 20, after line 24, to insert the following: "26.—In the event of an agency worker being denied access to amenities or facilities to which he or she is entitled...
• Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952 and the Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 in respect of certain duties or licences leviable or issuable thereunder,...
• Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Second Stage (48 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to open the debate in the Dáil on the Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012. The primary purpose of the Bill is to give...
• Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2012: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government pursuant to Standing Order 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a).
• Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
  • Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (262 speeches, 1 comment)
    The reality for ordinary people is completely different from what is set out in the Government amendment. The Sinn Féin Party's proposal is far more representative of the true situation. This...