Dáil debates

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • After-School Support Services (9 speeches)
    98. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of parents who have been awarded places on the after-school child care scheme, CETS II, since its launch in April 2013; his...
  • Preschool Services (7 speeches)
    99. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will support the growing demand of preschool childcare facility providers for their facilities and services to be seen and accepted as...
  • Adoption Legislation (12 speeches)
    100. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason he has not yet addressed the anomaly with respect to adoption by step-parents, including the requirement, as part of step-parent...
  • Child Care Services Provision (7 speeches)
    101. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will review the criteria for the capital grant programme 2014 to enable a wider range of child care service providers to access the...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  Question No. 103 replied to with Written Answers.
  • Child Detention Centres (7 speeches)
    104. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on the Oberstown development, including from a construction, staffing and management perspective; and if he...
  • Child Detention Centres (7 speeches)
    105. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which adequate accommodation remains available for juvenile offenders with particular reference to ensuring adequate...
  • Child Abuse Prevention (7 speeches)
    106. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of the budget for his Department to meet the ongoing and increasing demands...
  • Preschool Services (7 speeches)
    107. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to extend the free preschool year to a second year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21036/14]
  • Inter-Country Adoptions (7 speeches)
    108. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on a Russian bilateral agreement in relation to adoption, an update he indicated would likely be due at the...
• Leaders' Questions (55 speeches)
  Last Friday, we had the publication of the Guerin report into serious allegations that were made into the handling of various complaints of malpractice within Bailieborough Garda station and...
• Visit of Kenyan Delegation (1 speech)
  Before proceeding with business I wish on my own behalf and on behalf of the Members of Dáil Éireann to offer a céad míle fáilte, a most sincere welcome, to the...
• 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 P. Kitt - the...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
  • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (45 speeches)
    1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Ballymurphy group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6188/14]
• Appointment of Ministers (1 speech)
  For the information of the Dáil I wish to announce that having informed the Commission constituted as provided in section 2 of Article 14 of the Constitution, that Dáil Éireann has...
• Order of Business (61 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 9, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; and No. 4, Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. It is...
• Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
  I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 9 March 2011, setting out the rota in which questions to members of the Government are to be asked, questions for oral...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Driver Licences (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this important matter. I also thank the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Deputy Ciarán Cannon, for coming to...
  • Water Charges Exemptions (8 speeches)
    On a point of information, I was initially scheduled for the second slot. Why was I changed to speak in the fourth slot?
  • Child Care Services Funding (9 speeches)
    The three Deputies sharing are Deputy Dessie Ellis, Deputy Thomas P. Broughan and Deputy Seán Kenny. They will have two minutes each. I call Deputy Ellis first.
  • Tobacco Control Measures (4 speeches)
    I have been following with increasing alarm the debate about the dangers of electronic cigarettes. Today, Dr. Edel Duggan, clinical director of the National Poisons Information Centre, informed...
• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to make further provision in relation to housing provided by housing authorities and for that purpose to amend and extend the Housing Acts 1966 to 2014, to provide for...
• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (12 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to be here today to initiate the passage of this important housing Bill, which provides for innovative and necessary changes to...
• Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (25 speeches)
  I move:That Dáil Éireann:noting the:— continuing dramatic fall in the number of persons granted or retaining discretionary medical cards; — persistent refusal of the...