Dáil debates

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Leaders' Questions (82 speeches)
  One of the areas that has escaped any significant attention in the fallout from the budget has been the very savage and targeted approach to colleges of further education in terms of an attack on...
• Order of Business (97 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 27, Statements on European Council, Brussels; No. a7, Appropriation Bill 2012 - Order for Second Stage, Second and Subsequent Stages; No. 1, National Vetting Bureau...
• European Council Brussels: Statements (97 speeches)
  I am pleased to brief the House on the outcome of last week's European Council meeting in Brussels on 13 and 14 December. This was the final Council meeting before Ireland's Presidency begins in...
• Appropriation Bill 2012: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to appropriate to the proper supply services and purposes sums granted by the Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act 1965, to make provision in relation to deferred...
• Appropriation Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (2 speeches)
  In accordance with the Order of the House today, I must put the following question: "That the Bill is hereby read a Second Time, that sections 1 to 4, inclusive, Schedules 1 and 2 and the Title...
• National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: From the Seanad (3 speeches)
  The Dáil went into Committee to consider amendments from the Seanad.
• Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (11 speeches)
  The Dáil went into Committee to consider amendments from the Seanad.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Departmental Budgets (6 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Health the way he will achieve €780 million in savings in the health budget in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57231/12]
  • Home Help Service (6 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Health if the approximately 950,000 home help hours cut in 2012 will be fully restored; if all individual recipients of home help support who had hours cut in 2012 will...
  • Maternal Mortality Rates (6 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Confidential Maternal Death Enquiry in Ireland Report for the Triennium 2009-2011 which shows that the maternal mortality rate here is actually...
  • Medical Card Eligibility (8 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will help cancer patients in severe distress to acquire medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57232/12]
  • Medicinal Products (6 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Health when he will introduce legislation for the provision of cannabis derived products for the relief of pain, spasticity and other effects of ailments such as Multiple...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Obesity Levels (16 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on proposals to reduce the €1.6 billion costs related to obesity to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Symphysiotomy Report (11 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to receive the Walsh Report in relation to the practice of symphysiotomy here; the reasons for the delay in its publication; and if he will make a...
  • Medicinal Products (7 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to secure reductions in the current cost of generic equivalents, which are high by international comparisons; and if he will make a statement...
  • Ambulance Service (4 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Health if enhanced ambulance and paramedic services will be made available in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57017/12]
• 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 Paschal Donohoe - the...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Broadband Services (4 speeches)
    I thank the office of the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic. It is one of those debates that comes to this House and its committees quite often - the idea of providing adequate broadband...
  • Mental Health Services (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise the issue and I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to deal with it. I am inquiring about the transfer of 18 residents from...
  • Carer's Allowance Eligibility (4 speeches)
    As the Minister of State is aware, it can cost up to €2,000 per week to provide care to an older person in a residential nursing home in the public sector. It costs the State about...
  • Homeless Persons (4 speeches)
    While some families will struggle and find Christmas difficult it will be business as usual for many and we will see spending in shops, homes and bars and on travel. It is good that we do not...
• Message from Seanad (1 speech)
  Acting Chairman (Deputy Bernard Durkan): Seanad Éireann has passed the Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2012, without amendment, and the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012, without amendment.
• Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: From the Seanad (Resumed) (104 speeches)
  The Dáil went into Committee to resume consideration of Seanad amendment No. 2:Section 2: In page 11, subsection (1), between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: " "electronic means"...
• Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (125 speeches)
  The following motion was moved by Deputy John Halligan on Tuesday, 18 December 2012:That Dáil Éireann: recognises:— the vital contribution carers make to the economic and social...