Dáil debates

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

  • Prelude (0 speeches)
    Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 14.30 p.m.
  • Priority Questions (0 speeches)
    • Milk Quota (11 speeches)
      Question 1: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine the progress he has made on the milk quota and butterfat correction issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...
    • Animal Diseases (4 speeches)
      Question 2: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to prevent the Schmallenberg virus spreading to farms here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Grant Payments (17 speeches)
      Question 3: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine the reason after dealing with 11 members of his Department's staff and after being promised since early December that their...
    • Fisheries Protection (6 speeches)
      Question 4: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the unsustainable fishing practices by Iceland and the Faroe Islands for mackerel in the...
    • Sugar Industry (4 speeches)
      Question 5: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine if he will provide a stimulus for the sugar industry here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14690/12]
  • Other Questions (0 speeches)
    • Food Industry (17 speeches)
      Question 6: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine the progress made to date in the creation of an umbrella brand for Irish food and drink brand Ireland as outlined in July...
    • Common Agricultural Policy (14 speeches)
      Question 7: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the consultative policy he will undertake with regard to reform of Common Agriculture Policy...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (7 speeches)
      This question concerns stocking rates in disadvantaged areas. I am fully satisfied that the proposed changes to the 2012 disadvantaged areas scheme, currently under discussion with the EU...
  • 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 Michael Healy-Rae - the...
  • Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
    • US Visas for Irish Emigrants (4 speeches)
      I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this Topical Issue and the Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, for dealing with it. I wish to highlight the fact that so many young people...
    • Human Rights Issues (6 speeches)
      I wish to raise with the Minister of State with responsibility for European Affairs, Deputy Lucinda Creighton, the horrific and tragic case in Morocco that came to light recently where a 16 year...
    • National Asset Management Agency (4 speeches)
      I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me time to discuss this important matter which is of topical interest to many - the need for the Minister for Finance to ensure the scales are balanced...
    • Vatican Report on Child Abuse (6 speeches)
      I thank the Ceann Comhairle for ensuring this issue would be discussed today. It is entirely appropriate that, following on from the publication yesterday of the Vatican's report into the...
  • Leaders' Questions (85 speeches)
    At the outset, I wish to take this opportunity to extend my sympathies and those of my party to the family of the late, great Jim Stynes, who passed away on Tuesday after a long illness. He was...
  • Order of Business (89 speeches)
    It is proposed to take No. 1, Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad] - Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Private Members'...
  • Suspension of Member (1 speech)
    I move: "That Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív be suspended from the service of the Dáil."
  • Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 speeches)
    I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." In commending the Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill to the House I am asking Dáil Éireann to approve new, thorough and...
  • Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (57 speeches)
    I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — on 16 December 2010, the European Council agreed a two line amendment to Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union allowing...
  • Message from Seanad (1 speech)
    Seanad Éireann has passed the Clotting Factor Concentrates and Other Biological Products Bill 2012, without amendment.