Dáil debates
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.30 a.m.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- HSE National Service Plan (64 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive Service Plan 2014 is to be published; the reason it remained unpublished eight weeks after Budget 2014; if there are any...
- Substance Misuse (7 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind having those in addiction put into mental health services as opposed to general health services; the resources that are being considered for...
- Mental Health Services Provision (27 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which community mental health services will be developed in 2014; the new funding being provided for same; the number of new posts this will support;...
- Health Services Staff Remuneration (7 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a timeframed independent inquiry into the practice of top-up payments to senior executives at section 38 entities; the steps he has taken to...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Ambulance Service Response Times (14 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in the Health Service Executive West region since the introduction of standardised ambulance response times; the steps being...
- Hospital Waiting Lists (13 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to reverse the 18.6% year-on-year increase in day case and inpatient waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54086/13]
- Health Insurance Data (10 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Health the policy measures he has taken to level the playing field in the health insurance market between competitors that have low levels of elderly policy holders and...
- Proposed Legislation (11 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Health if he will legislate for access to a termination of pregnancy here when a woman is diagnosed with a fatal foetal abnormality [54012/13]
- 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 Joe McHugh - the...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (16 speeches)
The first amendment, in the name of Deputy Willie O'Dea, is out of order.
- Leaders' Questions (73 speeches)
In the past few days in the media and elsewhere there have been very serious allegations made about NAMA and its operations. My colleague, Senator Darragh O'Brien, has come to possess material,...
- Order of Business (67 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. a10, motion re presentation and circulation of Revised Estimates 2014; No. 20, statements on pre-European Council meeting of 19 and 20 December; No. 5, Appropriation...
- Presentation and Circulation of Revised Estimates 2014: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That, notwithstanding Standing Order 159 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business, Revised Estimates for the Public Services for the year ending 31st...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (71 speeches)
As I will be at the European Council Meeting in Brussels tomorrow, on behalf of the Government I wish Members on all sides of this House, Members of the Upper House and everyone who works here in...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Cabotage Regulations (7 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this issue, which, as the Minister is well aware, is of great concern to the road haulage sector. It certainly appears that Irish authorities have...
- Health Services Provision (6 speeches)
I am raising this issue on behalf of some parents who have boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare disease that affects approximately 100 boys in Ireland. Before I discuss the specific...
- HSE Investigations (7 speeches)
The Minister for State will be aware that in recent weeks worrying facts have come to light regarding the sale of used orthodontic braces by a dentist employed by the HSE in Merlin Park, Galway....
- Thalidomide Victims Compensation (4 speeches)
The Minister of State is aware that RTE's "Prime Time" programme recently shed light on the Government's handling of the thalidomide scandal in the 1960s. Documents produced show that the...
- Appropriation Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: All Stages (2 speeches)
In accordance with the Order of the House today, I must put the following question: "That the Bill is hereby read a Second Time; that the amendment set down by the Minister to section 1 is hereby...
- Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (19 speeches)
I move amendment No. 3:In page 9, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“9. The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following new section after section 47:"47A Where the...
- Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (43 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to have this opportunity to introduce the Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 to the House. The Bill represents a very important step...
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Planning and Development (Transparency and Consumer Confidence) Bill 2013: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government, pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 118.
