Dáil debates

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Leaders' Questions (120 speeches)
  I beg the Ceann Comhairle's indulgence to wish the Taoiseach a happy birthday. Is it the Tánaiste's birthday as well?
• Order of Business (67 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 18 - Revised Estimates for Public Services 2013, Votes 11 to 19, back from committee; No. 20 - Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad] - Order...
• Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The select sub-committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 and has made amendments thereto.
• Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013: Motion (2 speeches)
  I understand it is proposed to discharge the order made last Wednesday referring the Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2013 to the Select Committee on Health and Children and to refer it...
• Estimates for Public Services 2013 (20 speeches)
  I move the following Revised Estimates:
• 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 Paudie Coffey - the need...
• Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality has completed its consideration of the Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012 [Seanad] and has made no amendment...
• Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
  I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
• Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (21 speeches)
  Amendments 1 to 3, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Exceptional Needs Payments (52 speeches)
    1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount of savings that she expects to achieve from the abolition of exceptional needs payments for religious ceremonies; the number who...
  • Social Welfare Code (5 speeches)
    2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason retained fire-fighters who are entitled to social welfare payments when they are not working in other employment are still having payments...
  • Job Protection (20 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the situation in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council owned Ballyogan Recycling Depot, where a number of...
  • Disability Allowance Payments (17 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the future of the domiciliary care allowance and the disability allowance in view of the Advisory Group on social welfare and taxation;;...
  • Job Initiatives (8 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a jobs club service funded by FÁS has been withdrawn from Bawnogue, Clondalkin, Dublin; and the reason jobs club workers have not been...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Rent Support Schemes (21 speeches)
    6. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is considering revising the rent caps in urban areas in view of the recent reports that rents are increasing in urban areas; and if she will...
  • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (4 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the most recent review of the income thresholds for jobseeker's allowance took place; the changes made as a result of this review, and if there...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Rural Development Programme Funding (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter, which is particularly topical as community and rural groups nationally await with interest announcements on the approval of funding for...
  • Credit Availability (4 speeches, 1 comment)
    A taxi driver in my constituency is a friend of my family. He contacted me a number of weeks ago. He had an issue with his car and needed finance to get his car repaired so he could continue...
  • Pension Provisions (6 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this very important issue arising from the report on pensions the Government commissioned from the OECD. The OECD report reveals a very...
  • Accident and Emergency Services Provision (4 speeches)
    In the past week or so a local newspaper in County Wicklow reported on what can only be described as a secret meeting involving the Tánaiste and senior administrators and medical personnel...
• Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 speeches)
  Debate resumed on amendment No. 2:In page 13, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"(2) The Board shall, as soon as is practicable after the commencement of this section, establish...
• Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to provide for declarations of non-use of motor vehicles; for certain payments out of the local government fund; to amend the Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952, the...
• Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Bill 2013: Second Stage (46 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to open the debate on the Non-Use of Motor Vehicles Bill 2013, the primary purpose of which is to provide for a system of...
• Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 speeches)
  The following motion was moved by Deputy Sean Fleming on Tuesday, 23 April 2013:That Dáil Éireann:notes the:-- rejection by public sector employees of the Labour Relations Commission's...