Dáil debates

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 14.00
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Sale of State Assets (8 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his assessment of the strategic value of the State's holding in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8967/13]
  • Taxi Regulations (10 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions he has had with the Department of Justice and Equality and experts on the Good Friday Agreement over the course of the...
  • Swimming Pool Projects (8 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm when funding for a new round of applications under the local authority swimming pool programme with be put in place; if he...
  • Rail Services (6 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his assessment of Iarnród Éireann's prospects; his strategy to ensure a viable rail network; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Sports Capital Programme Applications (9 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will explain the reason he rejected funding applications under the sports capital programme for public sports facilities in...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Road Maintenance (25 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that is available to improve road networks in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8556/13]
  • Road Safety Statistics (13 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of road fatalities in 2012; if he will provide comparative figures for each of the past ten years; and if he...
• 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 Thomas Pringle - the...
• Leaders' Questions (66 speeches)
  An issue has arisen following the liquidation of IBRC for the credit union movement in this country. A number of credit unions had fixed-term deposits with IBRC, which were due to be repaid in...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
  • Northern Ireland Issues (22 speeches)
    To ask the Taoiseach his views on the recent violent protests in Belfast by loyalists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56521/12]
  • European Council Meetings (33 speeches)
    To ask the Taoiseach if he circulated any papers at the November European Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53796/12]
• Order of Business (104 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 17, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 18, motion re referral to joint committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann that section...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 9 March 2011, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, or in the Orders of...
• Diseases of Animals (Amendment) Act: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
  I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann resolves that section 17A (inserted by section 2(1) of the Diseases of Animals (Amendment) Act 2001 (No. 3 of 2001)) of the Diseases of...
• Finance Act 2004: Referral to Select Sub-Committee (1 speech)
  I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013,copies of which have...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • School Curriculum (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic. It is highly relevant given that the Minister of State is visiting Kinvara today to launch a CoderDojo club. Approximately 4,000 young...
  • Anti-Racism Measures (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for allowing me to raise this issue and I thank the Minister for his attendance. I raised this issue with him previously by way of a question on the yellow...
  • Road Maintenance (6 speeches)
    Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as teacht isteach anseo inniu. I thank the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, for attending to respond to the issue I raise. Most of my constituents, as with the vast...
  • Local Authority Housing Maintenance (4 speeches)
    I wished to raise this matter because it is becoming a more prevalent issue in my day-to-day work in my constituency of Dublin South-Central, where much of the housing stock is of a certain age....
• Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (30 speeches)
  I call on the Taoiseach to make a statement on the report of the interdepartmental committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen laundries.
• Mortgage Restructuring: Motion [Private Members] (14 speeches)
  I move:That Dáil Éireann: recognises that:— the two biggest issues in housing are mortgage distress and the lack of social housing; and — the current Government has...
• Finance Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to provide for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration and regulation of taxation, of stamp duties and of duties relating to excise and otherwise to make further...
• Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to bring the Bill to the House at a time we can be optimistic. Ireland is continuing to recover from the most severe downturn...