Dáil debates
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
- Leaders' Questions (174 speeches)
Last night Ulster Bank confirmed that it would close 40 more branches and lay off additional staff. In that bank alone we are looking at the loss of employment of between 1,400 and 1,800 jobs,...
- Order of Business (135 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 10a, motion re membership of committee; No. 17, Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No....
- 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 David Stanton - to ask...
- Membership of Committee: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That Deputies Peter Mathews and Billy Timmins be discharged from the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and that Deputies Regina Doherty and Paschal Donohoe be...
- Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (105 speeches)
Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are related and are being taken together.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision (29 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether children qualifying for a special needs assistant this coming September will experience reductions in their allocated special...
- Back to School Costs (8 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to implement the recommendations of the Oireachtas Select Committee on Education who have proposed that pupils should not be obliged to...
- State Examinations Reviews (9 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the serious concerns regarding the subject of history in the proposed reform of the junior certificate, if he will consider including...
- Student Grant Scheme Administration (12 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Student Universal Support Ireland applications for 2012-13 still to receive a final answer; the number of appeals outstanding; the...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision (6 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he expects to update the plan for implementation of the Education For Persons with Special Educational Needs, EPSEN, Act to prioritise access...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision (7 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he can improve the provision of special needs services to post-primary students who require them; and if he will make a statement on the...
- School Staffing (10 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of resource teachers that will lose their jobs or have their teaching hours reduced in the 2013/14 academic year; if he will confirm...
- State Examinations Issues (7 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which he decided teachers would correct the junior certificate examination work of their own students and schools would provide their...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision (31 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reassure parents and teachers there will be no cuts to other education services following his announcement not to implement his planned...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Ambulance Services (4 speeches)
Clearly, the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, is not the Minister for Health. I accept that this week is an extraordinary one in that there is a Committee Stage debate so I ask the Minister of...
- Fisheries Protection (11 speeches)
The next issue is in the names of Deputy Gerald Nash and Dominic Hannigan who have four minutes in total and a minute each for supplementary questions.
- Child Care Reports (6 speeches)
I thank the Minister for attending. As she recalls, she informed me at an Oireachtas committee meeting last July that the audit had been completed and that the report was being prepared, yet the...
- Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit (5 speeches)
The next matter is in the name of Deputy Derek Keating. The Deputy has four minutes.
- Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (35 speeches)
Amendment No. 1 has been ruled out of order as it is in conflict with the principle of the Bill as read a Second Time.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (78 speeches)
Amendments Nos. 1 to 13, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement.
- Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (32 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Message from Seanad (1 speech)
Seanad Éireann has passed the Further Education and Training Bill 2013, without amendment.
- Estimates for Public Services 2013: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for the Public Services for the year ending 31 December 2013 - Votes 27 and 28.
- Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public...
