Dáil debates

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Acting Chairman (Deputy Peter Mathews) i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Social Welfare Payments (25 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants for disability allowance, invalidity pension and domiciliary care allowance in 2012; the average waiting times and total...
  • National Internship Scheme Placements (8 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that jobsbridge interns were used by An Garda Síochána, with the agreement of her Department, to work in the highly...
  • Community Welfare Services (9 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the community welfare offices (details supplied) in County Dublin are being closed and staff services being centralised to Parnell Road and Bishops...
  • Social Welfare Code (35 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the Commission on Social Welfare and Taxation (details supplied) will be published; if the Programme for Government commitment on Social Welfare...
  • Information and Communications Technology (4 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure the efficient operation of computer systems within her Department in order to allow for the effective management of...
• Topical Issue Matters (0 speeches)
  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 Ann Phelan - the need to...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Respite Care Grant (20 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline her plans for the future of the respite care grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4081/13]
  • Employment Support Services (27 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is planning to bring in a jobbridge type scheme to take thousands of unemployed persons into local authorities on internships; her views on this...
  • Pension Provisions (5 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 13 November 2012, stating that backdating the home-makers scheme to 1953 would cost the Exchequer in the...
• Leaders' Questions (68 speeches)
  Over the past several months, particularly over the past several weeks, we have been led to believe that a deal to restructure the promissory notes was all but done. We on this side of the House...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
  • Law Reform Commission (10 speeches)
    To ask the Taoiseach if a programme of law reform has been agreed arising out of recommendations made by the Law Reform Commission as outlined in his Department's Strategy Statement; and if...
  • Freedom of Information Requests (15 speeches)
    To ask the Taoiseach the number of Freedom of Information requests received in his Department in 2012; the number refused and the number granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Office of the Attorney General (16 speeches)
    To ask the Taoiseach his plans to carry out a review of the capacity of the Office of the Attorney General. [50986/12]
• Business of Dáil (2 speeches)
  It is proposed that expressions of sympathy on the death of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe be taken now, from the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and leaders of Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin, a...
• Death of Garda Adrian Donohoe: Expressions of Sympathy (14 speeches)
  Today I know I speak for everybody in this country and in this House because today our nation speaks as one. We speak of a man murdered in the service of his community and his country. We speak...
• Order of Business (43 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 3, National Lottery Bill 2012 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil on its rising...
• Reform of Judicial Appointments Procedures Bill 2013: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to reform the way in which individuals are selected for appointments to the Judiciary by the Judicial Appointments Board.
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Hospitals Capital Programme (35 speeches)
    I welcome the opportunity to speak on this serious issue, which has highlighted the interference of the Minister for Health in the delivery of health care in the country. We all accept that a...
  • Hospital Services (4 speeches)
    According to newspaper reports, a recruitment ban means epilepsy units remain closed, even though 200 patients are on waiting lists. As epilepsy can be a life threatening illness, some of these...
  • Book Rental Scheme (7 speeches)
    All Members will be familiar with the annual debate in May or June on the cost of school books and no doubt the coming summer it will be no different. This issue has been covered on the airwaves...
  • School Accommodation (4 speeches)
    I am delighted to have an opportunity to raise with the Minister of State, Deputy Ciarán Cannon, the need to plan for the provision of more primary school places in the Greystones, Kilcoole...
• National Lottery Bill 2012: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
• National Lottery Bill 2012: Second Stage (37 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The National Lottery Bill is intended to replace the National Lottery Act 1986. The Bill has a number of purposes, in particular, the...
• An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (29 speeches)
  I move:That Dáil Éireann:- acknowledges the central role that An Garda Síochána has played in providing security to the State and people of Ireland since its foundation; -...