Dáil debates

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Leaders' Questions (114 speeches)
  Following yesterday's meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts, we learned that the health budget was in severe crisis. At the end of August the overrun was reported as being in the order of...
• Order of Business (186 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. a13, motion re membership of committees; No. 4, Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 16, statements on philanthropy and the arts (resumed)....
• Membership of Committees: Motions (2 speeches)
  I move:That Deputy Ciarán Lynch be discharged from the Select Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht and that Deputy Michael McCarthy be appointed in substitution for him.
• Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• 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 Ray Butler - the need to...
• Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Public Sector Staff Issues (14 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which he intends to publish the cost benefit analysis and full details on the operation of the proposed voluntary redundancy...
  • Public Sector Allowances Review (27 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will make a statement on his recent review of public service allowances and premium payments; if he intends to make public all data...
  • Job Creation Issues (35 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected level of jobs that will be created by the end of 2012 and 2013 respectively as a result of the stimulus plan announced in July...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Public Sector Reform Review (2 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which public service reforms embraced to date have resulted in the achievement of specific budgetary targets; if he has...
  • Public Sector Staff Remuneration (22 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the payments of salary increases by means of increment to public servants earning more than €100,000; and if he will make...
  • Office of the Ombudsman Status (11 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will amend the Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008 to extend the remit of the Ombudsman to prisons and all issues relating to asylum,...
  • Croke Park Agreement Issues (6 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which the Croke Park agreement expires; if he has indicated to the public sector unions if and when talks on a successor...
  • Freedom of Information Legislation (5 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce the Freedom of Information Bill before Dáil Éireann goes into recess in December. [43494/12]
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Food Prices (4 speeches)
    The day of action yesterday highlighted a number of issues, one of which was the continuing problem with inequality in the food supply chain. The Minister will know there exists a large arms...
  • Job Creation Issues (6 speeches)
    This is a topic of serious speculation in Clonmel and in south Tipperary in general, the future of more than 150 manufacturing jobs at Abbott in Clonmel. All these workers are on temporary...
  • Schools Recognition (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue matter, which is of considerable importance to two different communities in the county I represent. My question relates to the status...
  • Community Employment Schemes Places (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting the topic of the knock-on effects cuts in social welfare are having on participation in the community employment scheme. Without meaning any disrespect...
• Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (71 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Agriculture: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (107 speeches)
  The following motion was moved by Deputy Eamon Ó Cuív on Tuesday, 9 October 2012:That Dáil Éireann:- acknowledges the central role that agriculture plays at the heart of rural...