Dáil debates

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

  • Prelude (0 speeches)
    Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
  • Leaders' Questions (187 speeches)
    The Government established a special Cabinet committee on mortgage arrears. We have had the Keane report. There has been much soul-searching as part of the attempt to provide answers to the...
  • Order of Business (143 speeches)
    It is proposed to take No. a8, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions, without debate; No. b8, motion re membership of committees, without debate; No. 1, Criminal Justice...
  • Education (Amendment) (Protection of Schools) Bill 2012: First Stage (5 speeches)
    I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide, for the protection of schools which are the exclusive providers of education for geographical, cultural, religious or...
  • Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2012: First Stage (5 speeches)
    I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the holding of polls on a Saturday or a Sunday, to amend the Electoral Act 1992; to amend the Presidential...
  • Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
    I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 9th March, 2011, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, or in the Order of the...
  • Membership of Committees: Motion (1 speech)
    I move: That Deputy Mick Wallace be discharged from the Select Committee on European Union Affairs and that Deputy John Halligan be appointed in substitution for him. That Deputy Mick Wallace be...
  • Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 speeches)
    Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
  • Priority Questions (0 speeches)
    • School Textbooks (6 speeches)
      Question 1: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to meet with school book publishers to discuss the fact that they are failing to abide by the code of practice on publishing...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (6 speeches)
      Question 2: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to using the database of survivors of residential abuse who applied for compensation to the Redress...
    • Third Level Funding (10 speeches)
      Question 3: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans or additional revenue streams, if any, he is pursuing, in order to reverse the current planned cuts to third level education,...
    • Special Educational Needs (8 speeches)
      Question 4: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cut to resource hours last year and for this year; the impact that this will have on children with special and educational...
    • Schools Building Projects (6 speeches)
      Question 5: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the construction of a new school (details supplied) which has been waiting for the past 18 years for a new...
  • Other Questions (0 speeches)
    • School Curriculum (6 speeches)
      Question 6: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on proposals in Britain to make foreign language learning compulsory from the age of seven and if he will comment on the...
    • School Curriculum (9 speeches)
      Question 7: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has any concerns in relation to the non-availability of a textbook for project maths; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Education and Training Boards (8 speeches)
      Question 8: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the progress made to date in the establishment of the new education and training agency SOLAS; and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Grants (8 speeches)
      Question 9: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will explain the funding options that are available to persons who want to study at postgraduate level from September 2012 but...
    • Teaching Contracts (6 speeches)
      Question 10: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers on indefinite contracts can be replaced under the terms of the Croke Park deal. [30986/12]
    • School Uniforms (10 speeches)
      Question 11: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the meetings he or his Department have had with interested groups or persons in relation to his initiative regarding...
    • Vocational Education Committees (5 speeches)
      Question 12: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he anticipates that the chief executive officers will be assigned to the sixteen proposed new VECs; and if he will make a...
    • School Accommodation (4 speeches)
      Question 13: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that he can continue to meet the school building programme requirements at primary and secondary level throughout...
    • European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (5 speeches)
      My Department has submitted final reports to the European Commission in respect of the Dell, Waterford Crystal and SR Technics programmes co-funded by the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund...
  • European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill 2011: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
    The Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality has completed its consideration of the European Arrest Warrant (Application to Third Countries and Amendment) and Extradition (Amendment)...
  • Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
    • Banking Sector IT Systems (6 speeches)
      The debacle at Ulster Bank continues. This morning we heard from the managing director of branch banking at Ulster Bank, Mr. Jim Ryan, who admitted that despite earlier assurances, customers...
    • Overseas Development Aid (4 speeches)
      I welcome the opportunity to raise this issue and thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to do so. I wish to discuss the role of Irish overseas aid in education because it is an area that can...
    • Road Safety (9 speeches)
      Some 92 people have been tragically killed on Irish roads so far this year. There had been 85 tragic road deaths by the same time last year. There have been 88 fatal collisions on Irish roads...
    • Hospital Accommodation (9 speeches)
      I do not mean this as any reflection on the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, but it is regrettable and disappointing that neither the Minister for Health nor one of the two Ministers of State...
  • Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences Against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 speeches)
    Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
  • Message from Seanad (1 speech)
    The Seanad has passed the European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012 without amendment and the European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012 without amendment.
  • Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
    Bill entitled an Act to facilitate the lending of money to microenterprises; for that purpose to make provision for a fund to be known as the microenterprise loan fund; to provide for the...
  • Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (24 speeches)
    I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome this opportunity to present the Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012 to the House. The Bill is one of the key targeted initiatives in...
  • National Cultural Institutions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (34 speeches)
    The following motion was moved by Deputy Micheál Martin on Tuesday, 26 June 2012:
  • Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
    The Select sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform has concluded its consideration of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme) and Remuneration Bill 2011 and has made amendments thereto.
  • Microenterprise Loan Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 speeches)
    Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."