Dáil debates
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Student Grant Scheme Delays (8 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects the problems with student grants to be resolved and all students who have qualified to be in receipt of their grant; and if he will...
- Student Grant Scheme Delays (10 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of third level students on a county basis who have had their maintenance grant application accepted by...
- Disadvantaged Status (6 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on primary school funding in disadvantaged areas in 2013. [3147/13]
- Teacher Redeployment (6 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with the Institute of Guidance Counsellors to discuss the issues that emerged from a recent survey by the IGC in particular the impact...
- Minor Works Scheme Suspension (5 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the suspension of the minor works grant represents a false saving in view of comments (details supplied) that schools that are...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Croke Park Agreement Review (8 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of discussions on the achievement of a second Croke Park deal, his views on whether new entrants to the teaching profession should be...
- Special Educational Needs (9 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the development of an implementation plan for those sections of the EPSEN Act 2004 that have yet to be implemented;...
- National Procurement Service (6 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will amend proposed procurement rules requiring schools to purchase stationery from one national supplier in order that they may purchase from...
- Further Education and Training Programmes Applications (6 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the numbers of students, on a county basis, who progressed to higher education courses as a result of...
- Education Funding (12 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will give consideration to introducing an annual education impact study in advance of the budget each year so as to ensure that the impact of...
- Higher Education Institutions (7 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the recent Higher Education Authority discussion document which recommends cutting the number of third level institutions from 39...
- Bullying in Schools (12 speeches)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to tackle bullying in schools; if he will outline in particular his plans to deal with homophobic bullying; and if he will make a statement...
- 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 Seamus Kirk - the need...
- Leaders' Questions (65 speeches)
Somewhere in the country today, there may well be a victim of rape, incest or abuse who is contemplating facing a tormentor in seeking justice and retribution. However, recent decisions by the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
- Departmental Strategy Statements (55 speeches)
To ask the Taoiseach the way he has put in place an internal management process for reporting on a quarterly basis as outlined in his Department's Strategy Statement; and if he will make a...
- Order of Business (89 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 11, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Planning and Development (Planning Enforcement) General Policy Directive...
- Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 speech)
A division was challenged on Friday, 18 January 2013 on the question that the Social Welfare (Amnesty) Bill 2012 be read a Second Time. In accordance with Standing Order 117A(4), that division...
- Education (Resource Allocation) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 speech)
I must deal with the postponed division on the Education (Resource Allocation) Bill 2012, which was claimed on the question that the Bill be read a Second Time. In accordance with Standing...
- Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the restructuring and disposal of certain mortgage arrears; for the retention, where practicable, of the principal...
- Planning and Development (Planning Enforcement) General Policy Directive 2013: Referral to Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft:Planning and Development (Planning Enforcement) General Policy Directive 2013,copies of which have...
- Membership of Committees: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That Deputy Michael Colreavy be discharged from the Select Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht and that Deputy Peadar Tóibín be appointed in substitution for him.
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- VAT Rates (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for affording me an opportunity to raise this issue. I ask the Minister for Finance to consider the return of value added tax incurred by voluntary organisations and...
- EU-IMF Programme of Support (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting for discussion what we can all agree is an important issue. We welcome the news that emerged from Brussels overnight regarding the possible...
- Insurance Coverage (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for the opportunity to raise this important issue in the House this evening with the Minister. The issue does not affect most people. It does not have...
- Climate Change Policy (4 speeches)
Deputy Daly's Topical Issue matter fits in quite well mine. He talked about a local issue, the appalling flooding that many of his constituents have had to face, which is an aspect of climate...
- Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
Bill entitled an Act to further facilitate, in the public interest, the financial stability of the European Union and the safeguarding of the financial stability of the Euro area as a whole and...
- Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (3 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Ba mhaith liom buíochas an Aire Airgeadais a chur faoi bhráid na Dála as ucht an Bille seo a thógaint anocht. Tá...
- Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Bill before the House, which will be debated this evening and tomorrow, sets out to amend the Education (Welfare) Act 2000 to enshrine in...
