Dáil debates
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.30 a.m.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Government Pay Policy (7 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he is taking to ensure that all top-up payments over and above taxpayer funded salaries paid by agencies contracted by the...
- Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (14 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has lifted the ban he imposed in 2011 on performance bonuses for chief executives of commercial semi-State companies. [2890/14]
- Public Sector Reform Implementation (14 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how he expects to reduce the public service pay bill over the next two budgets by the introduction of new technologies and more efficient...
- Public Sector Staff Issues (7 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is still his intention to further reduce public sector numbers by 10,000 whole time equivalents by 2015; and the percentage of this...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Departmental Staff Redeployment (7 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff in his Department involved in or responsible for overseeing the budget and expenditure of the Department of Health;...
- Freedom of Information Remit (10 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when and if the freedom of information legislation will be extended to include Irish Water within its remit. [2667/14]
- Sale of State Assets (8 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the State is achieving value for the taxpayer from its privatisation programme; the use to which the funds raised...
- Commercial Rates Valuation Process (10 speeches)
11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to revise the valuation system to provide for a fairer basis for commercial rates; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Public Sector Reform Implementation (8 speeches)
13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he continues to be satisfied with the performance of each Department in meeting its targets in the context of public...
- Appointments to State Boards (11 speeches)
14. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether all senior appointments to taxpayer-funded positions, including appointment to State boards, should be publicly...
- 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 Michael Moynihan - the...
- Appointments to the Standards in Public Office Commission: Motions (12 speeches)
I move:That, pursuant to subsection (2A) (inserted by section 2 of the Standards in Public Office Act 2001 (No. 31 of 2001)), of section 21 of the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 (No. 22 of...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: From the Seanad (50 speeches)
The Dáil went into committee to consider amendments from the Seanad.
- Leaders' Questions (63 speeches, 1 comment)
Yesterday I asked the Taoiseach questions about the establishment of Irish Water, particularly whether he could confirm that senior members of local authorities had left their positions in local...
- Order of Business (107 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 24a, motion re Standing Orders 38, 39 and 124; No. 24b, motion re membership of committees; No. 1, Local Government Reform Bill 2013 - amendments from the Seanad; and...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (7 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Water Services Act 2013 to make provision to include Irish Water under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor...
- Standing Orders: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders and with effect from 28th January, 2014, the following amendments be made to the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to...
- Membership of Committees: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That Deputy Mattie McGrath be discharged from the Select Committee on Health and Children and that Deputy Clare Daly be appointed in substitution for him. That Deputy Mattie McGrath be...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Post Office Banking Services (4 speeches)
I ask the Minister for Finance to clarify his plans to move towards processing most of the State's business electronically. This issue arose previously in the context of social welfare payments....
- Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (79 speeches)
I raise this issue because of a letter written by the Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees Association to HIQA and the HSE. By any stretch of the imagination, it is extraordinary that people would...
- Foreshore Licence Applications (5 speeches)
The Minister of State is familiar with this case through parliamentary questions she has answered. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, and the Minister for the...
- Stardust Fire (4 speeches)
Today I raise the issue of new and important evidence relating to the Stardust fire tragedy. It is important to remember what happened in the early hours of 14 February 1981, when a catastrophic...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: From the Seanad (Resumed) (107 speeches)
The Dáil went into Committee to resume consideration of Seanad amendment No. 16:Section 31: In page 41, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “Amendment of certain...
- Messages from Select Committees (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality has completed its consideration of the Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013 and has made amendments thereto. The Select Sub-Committee on...
- ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
Bill entitled an Act to enable the Electricity Supply Board to engage in electronic communications networks and electronic communications services, to define the meaning of an electric line and...
- ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to have the opportunity to present the ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013 for the consideration of Dáil...
- Charities (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
