Dáil debates
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
- Leaders' Questions (135 speeches)
Since the election, the Government has announced a jobs initiative, a jobs protection budget and an action plan for jobs, all of which were meant to create approximately 100,000 jobs by 2016....
- Order of Business (123 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. a16, European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012 – modification of Standing Orders in relation to motion to instruct the select committee; No.b16, European Communities...
- Modification of Standing Orders: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 177, Standing Order 131(2) is hereby modified for the purpose of providing that the debate on the Instruction to Select Committee motion regarding the...
- European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012: Motion to Instruct Select Committee (7 speeches)
I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 131, it be an instruction to the Select Committee on European Union Affairs that it has power to make provision in the European Communities (Amendment)...
- Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (45 speeches)
The motion is to conclude after 45 minutes. I call on the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, to move the motion. The Minister has ten minutes.
- Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (9 speeches)
I move: That Dáil Éireann resolves that section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 (No. 32 of 2009) shall continue in operation for the period of 12 months beginning on 30th June,...
- Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Re-employment of Retired Public Servants (6 speeches)
Question 1: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and extent to which staff who recently retired from the public service have been re-hired; if guidelines are in...
- Budgetary Process (13 speeches)
Question 2: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on his Department's Budget 2013 preparations; and if he will confirm the budgetary process for the...
- Political Funding (14 speeches)
Question 3: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the changes he proposes to make to the funding and resourcing of individual TDs and political parties; the timeframe for...
- Sale of State Assets (12 speeches)
Question 4: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will exclude Bord Gáis from the list of State assets to be sold in order to protect the parent company of Irish Water...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Public Sector Reform (49 speeches)
Question 6: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the total public sector pay bill and public sector pension bill month on month from end of...
- Public Sector Staff (16 speeches)
Question 8: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and...
- Legislative Programme (6 speeches)
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the progress made regarding the Regulation of Lobbying Bill. [28249/12]
- Sale of State Assets (6 speeches)
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of his proposal to use funds realised from the sale of State assets for job creation, his views on European research...
- 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) Deputies Ann Phelan and Seán...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Foreign Conflicts (6 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State, I know he was late but at least he is in attendance. I believe this is the second time I have spoken on the topic of Syria and the situation has become graver....
- Job Losses (6 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this important matter and I thank the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, for being present to respond. I wrote to the...
- National Spatial Strategy (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this matter which is of deep concern to me and to many in Waterford, which is designated a gateway city under the national spatial...
- Waste Disposal (4 speeches)
I am pleased to have an opportunity to raise this topical matter, which is very pertinent to our capital city. The Minister of State will agree that the privatisation of the refuse service that...
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Companies (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee (2 speeches)
I understand it is proposed to refer this Bill to the Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. I call on the Minister of State, Deputy McGinley, to move the motion.
- Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Common Fisheries Policy: Statements (14 speeches)
I am glad to have the opportunity to update the House on the result of a long but successful Council of Ministers meeting last night. Its objective was to get agreement among member states on a...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
