Dáil debates

Thursday, 23 February 2012

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Leaders' Questions (66 speeches)
  We heard with surprise and shock this morning about the decision of An Bord Pleanála to refuse planning permission for the national children's hospital which is needed more urgently than ever in...
• Order of Business (15 speeches, 1 comment)
  It is proposed to take No. a9, Finance Bill 2012 – Financial Resolutions; No. b9, Finance Bill 2012 – Allocation of Time Motion for Select sub-Committee; No. c9, motion re Presentation and...
• Finance Bill 2012: Financial Resolutions (1 speech)
  I move the following Resolutions: THAT Part 18D of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39 of 1997), which provides for the universal social charge, be amended in the manner and to the extent...
• Finance Bill 2012: Allocation of Time: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders: (1) The proceedings in the Select sub-Committee on Finance on the Finance Bill 2012 shall be brought to a conclusion in accordance with...
• Presentation of Revised Estimates 2012: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding Standing Order 159(1) or (2) of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business, Revised Estimates for the Public Services for the year ending 31...
• Amendment of Standing Orders: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the Resolutions of the Dáil of 21 July, 2011, and 16 December, 2011, in respect of Standing Order 27A, and until further notice in...
• Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality pursuant to Standing Order 82A(3)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business and...
• 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 Patrick O'Donovan - the...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Services for People with Disabilities (4 speeches)
    I thank the Minister of the State for taking this debate. I wish to raise two issues regarding disability services. I acknowledge the Government wants to protect them but the overall reduction...
  • Ambulance Service (4 speeches)
    In seeking to discuss the issue of the Offaly ambulance service, I want to focus particularly on Edenderry ambulance service, where the situation is causing grave concern and worry among staff...
  • Medical Cards (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this important topic for debate. Medical cards have dominated much of the debate in recent months in this House, but today I want to talk about a...
  • Foreign Conflicts (6 speeches)
    I am pleased to have the opportunity, with Deputy Alex White, to raise this important matter, although I am upset that it must be raised. It concerns the widespread and appalling brutality in...
• Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Éireann has passed the Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011, without amendment.
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Disadvantaged Status (23 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he refused to release information under a recent freedom of information request relating to advice received by him on his...
  • School Curriculum (12 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he based his decision to abolish the modern languages in primary schools initiative on one line in a 2008 NCCA report called...
  • Legislative Programme (8 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which he proposes to publish the legislation in respect of the establishment of the Statutory Trust Fund; the proposed...
  • Higher Education Funding (8 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following the recent publication by the Higher Education Authority of details around a new national strategy for higher education, if...
  • Teaching Council (8 speeches)
    Question 8: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has recovered the funding, some €5 to €6 million, given by the last Government to set up the Teaching Council; if his...
  • Departmental Reports (4 speeches)
    Question 9: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on his review of the way fee paying schools are spending moneys received from fees; when he expects this...
  • Schools Amalgamation (9 speeches)
    Question 10: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way changes to staffing schedules announced in Budget 2012 will affect a school (details supplied), a two teacher Church of...
  • School Accommodation (2 speeches)
    Question 11: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is his policy to concentrate second-level funding in vocational education committee schools rather than voluntary schools; and...
  • School Curriculum (12 speeches)
    Question 12: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is reviewing the establishment of computer science as full syllabus subject at primary level and at secondary junior and senior...
  • Further Education and Training Sector (6 speeches)
    Question 13: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the 800 FÁS staff who are transferring to the vocational educational committee sector; the composition of the board...