Dáil debates

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (8 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the recommendations of the Advisory Group report on Tax and Social Welfare chaired by Ita Mangan; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Child Benefit Rates (6 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will list the changes introduced to child benefit payment since March 2011; and if she will demonstrate the way that these changes have reduced...
  • Household Benefits Scheme (24 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that the number of heating units and the heating period be restored to their levels before she took office in view of the inclement...
  • Social Welfare Code Reform (10 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the future of the one parent family payment; the progress that has been made on her commitments to reform childcare provision before...
  • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (21 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection the directives that she has given in relation to the clothing grant which community welfare officers issued under their exceptional needs payment scheme....
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Youth Unemployment Measures (11 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made in guaranteeing the young people who are unemployed here a job or training within three months as proposed under the...
  • After School Support Services (4 speeches)
    To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 29 January 2013, when and where the pilot scheme be rolled out and when is it expected that the 6000 after...
• Topical Issue Matters (1 speech)
  The following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A were received by the Ceann Comhairle, and this is a list of the name of the Member in each case: (1)...
• Leaders' Questions (88 speeches)
  There are clearly elements of the renegotiated Croke Park agreement that are very unfair to certain workers, a fact that is being made worse every day by a very cynical divide and conquer...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
  • Official Engagements (120 speeches)
    To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with European leaders since the EU summit on the 22 November 2012. [53845/12]
• Order of Business (74 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. a13, motion re by-election for Meath East, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 13, Finance Bill 2013 – allocation of time motion for...
• Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 speeches)
  I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill.
• Meath East By-election: Issue of Writ (39 speeches)
  I move:That the Ceann Comhairle direct the Clerk of the Dáil to issue his writ for the election of a Member to fill the vacancy which has occurred in the membership of the present Dáil...
• Poor Relief (Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2013: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838.
• Finance Bill 2013: Allocation of Time: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders: (1) The proceedings in the Select Sub-Committee on Finance on the Finance Bill 2013 shall be brought to a conclusion in accordance...
• Finance Bill 2013: Financial Resolutions (1 speech)
  I move the following Resolutions:1. THAT section 531AM of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39 of 1997), which sets out the charge to universal social charge, be amended in the manner and to...
• Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Financial Resolution (1 speech)
  I move:THAT the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 which provides for the imposition in accordance with that Act of local property tax; for the establishment and maintenance by the Revenue...
• Diseases of Animals Act 1966: Motion (3 speeches)
  I move: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 Animals Act 1966 (No. 6...
• Topical Issues (0 speeches)
  • Fish Farming (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this Topical Issue matter. I welcome the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, to the Chamber to debate this very...
  • Housing Adaptation Grants Expenditure (13 speeches)
    I am grateful for this opportunity to refer to the letters that were issued by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to local authorities last Friday. They announced...
  • Youth Services (4 speeches)
    Go raibh maith agat agus go raibh maith ag an Aire as bheith anseo chun éisteacht a thabhairt don méad atá le rá agam. It is very important that the Minister is here to...
  • Hospital Facilities (4 speeches)
    I raise this matter on account of the serious ongoing trolley problem at Mayo General Hospital, which is in the red zone as it has between ten and 12 patients, on average, on hospital trolleys...
• Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (23 speeches)
  SECTION 1
• Health Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (37 speeches)
  I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes that: - there is an ongoing and persistent increase in the cost of private health insurance, with a crisis of affordability for both individuals and...
• Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (211 speeches)
  SECTION 1