Dáil debates

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

• Prelude (0 speeches)
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• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Nursing Home Repayment Scheme (8 speeches)
    Question 1: To ask the Minister for Health the terms of reference of the fair deal review; if this review will take into account broader issues regarding the State's care for the elderly; the...
  • Contaminated Blood Products (14 speeches)
    Question 2: To ask the Minister for Health if he will use his powers under the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal Act 1997 to make available the measures provided for the majority who have...
  • Medicinal Products (14 speeches)
    Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reversing the decision of the National Centre for Pharmaeconomics to halve the threshold used to measure value for money; if his...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • General Practitioner Services (19 speeches)
    Question 6: To ask the Minister for Health the consultations he has held with general practitioners regarding the extension of free care to those with long term illnesses; the expected cost of...
  • Care of the Elderly (14 speeches)
    Question 7: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a guarantee that the decision to close Abbeyleix Hospital, County Laois, will be reversed, that the hospital will be retained and...
  • Prescription Charges (20 speeches)
    Question 8: To ask the Minister for Health if he will fulfil his commitment to abolish prescription charges for medical card patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24201/12]
  • Hospital Services (10 speeches)
    Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that nine hospitals have amended criteria for categorising patients on trolleys as a way of reducing the...
• 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 Pat Deering - the...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Mental Health Services (4 speeches)
    I raise this issue on the back of a report published today by Headstrong in association with academic staff in UCD. This was a survey of 14,000 teenagers and young adults which found 38% of...
  • Medical Cards (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for allowing me to raise the inordinate delays that can occur when medical card applications need to be reviewed. On 22 February, in reply to a Topical Debate...
  • Civil Registration Act (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for choosing this issue which is important to me and some of my constituency people. I thank the Minister for being present to respond to it. I wish to discuss the...
  • Child Care Services (13 speeches)
    This matter relates to several crèche closures which are preventable but also illogical because the Minister, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, has it within her capacity to ensure proper funding is...
• Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport has completed its consideration of the Road Safety Authority (Commercial Vehicle Road Worthiness) Bill 2012 and has made no amendments thereto.
• Leaders' Questions (24 speeches)
  I want to welcome the shift in debate on the treaty towards a focus on growth and investment. In that regard and during the course of this campaign, we have witnessed a vagueness from the...
• Order of Business (57 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 6, Credit Guarantee Bill 2012 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be No. 36, Regulation of Debt Management Advisors Bill 2011 -...
• Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to enable the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to give guarantees to lenders of a certain class in respect of loans made by such lenders to enterprises of a...
• Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce the Credit Guarantee Bill 2012 to the House. The Bill has been long awaited and a concern of many, particularly in...
• Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Seanad Éireann has passed the Education (Amendment) Bill 2012, without amendment.
• Estimates for Public Services 2012: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2012: Vote 27 -...
• Private Members' Business. Regulation of Debt Management Advisors Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Regulation of Debt Management Advisors Bill 2011: Referral to Select Sub-Committee (1 speech)
  I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on Finance pursuant to Standing Order 82A(3)(a)(6)(a) and 118.