Dáil debates
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.30 a.m.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (9 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will contact persons who have been refused domiciliary care allowance for the past two years in view of the decision of the High Court of 1...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (9 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to ensure that appropriate regard is given by deciding officers to the medical evidence submitted by applicants for...
- Job Creation (10 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rationale behind taxing income gained through employment on Tús programmes (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (36 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons under the age of 26 years now in receipt of reduced jobseeker's allowance; if this change has reduced the number of persons...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (14 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way rent allowance limits can differ so drastically by county and in local areas throughout the country particularly in Waterford where the rent...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Farm Assist Scheme Eligibility (24 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reversing the changes she made to farm assist with respect to income disregards in view of the fact that it has had a serious...
- State Pensions Reform (7 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the consequences for women of changes to the State pension introduced by her; if she will introduce a new homemaker's credit; if so, the...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (64 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will state definitively her Department's official position on and assessment of the true extent of rental top-ups being paid by persons to...
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 speeches)
SECTION 1
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known in the Irish language as An Coimisiún um Iomaíocht agus Cosaint Tomhaltóinríor in the English...
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This Bill, which is major reforming legislation, has three main objectives. First, as part of the programme of reform we are implementing...
- Topical Issue Matters (1 speech)
Acting Chairman (Deputy Bernard Durkan): 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...
- Leaders' Questions (61 speeches)
Yesterday the Taoiseach was asked questions in the House about the new water tax and standing charge and he gave very little information to the Members of the House. He referred to a draft memo...
- Appointment of Clerk Assistant of Dáil Éireann (2 speeches)
Before proceeding to the Order of Business, I wish to make a brief announcement for the information of the House. In accordance with section 5 of the Staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas Act...
- Order of Business (75 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 3, Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014 - Second Stage (resumed); and No. 20, statements on the White Paper on Universal Health Insurance. It is proposed,...
- Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Ombudsman Act 1980 (as amended) to make provision for the inclusion of Irish Water in the schedule of agencies...
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Athchóiriú Cuimsitheach Buiséid) 2014: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Inclusive Budget Reform) Bill 2014: First Stage (5 speeches)
Tairgim:Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú.I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (7 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for giving me the chance to raise this issue. Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, has been working well in this, its second year. There have not been...
- Child Care Services Funding (4 speeches)
I thank the Leas-Cheann Chomhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise this urgent issue, namely, the funding crisis at the Darndale-Belcamp integrated child care service in Darndale, Dublin...
- Community Employment Schemes Funding (6 speeches)
I appreciate the opportunity to raise this issue to ensure sufficient financial resources will be in place so people on community employment schemes in County Laois who are currently working in...
- Flood Prevention Measures (4 speeches)
At the outset, I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue for debate. January and February 2014 will be remembered for severe storm damage and flooding right across the country....
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a).
- Message from Seanad (1 speech)
Seanad Éireann has passed the Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014 without amendment.
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (40 speeches)
The current health system is both unaffordable and unfair. That it is unaffordable is evidenced by the fact that the spend relating to it quadrupled between 1997 and 2009 and that in January...
- Ambulance Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (33 speeches)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Billy Kelleher on Tuesday, 15 April 2014:That Dáil Éireann:acknowledging the:— selfless dedication to their work, of the paramedics in...