Dáil debates
Thursday, 16 April 2015
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.30 a.m.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- General Practitioner Services (7 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement his proposals for free general practitioner care for all children under six years of age; the projected annual cost of this plan; and if...
- Drug Treatment Programmes (7 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that the Health Service Executive recruitment embargo has resulted in a crisis in the executive's counselling services and dangerously high...
- Disability Services Funding (7 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure there are no further cuts to ChildVision services for multi-disabled and blind children in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Mental Health Services Provision (34 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Health the way he proposes to address the increase in cases of electroconvulsive therapy being used against a patient’s will; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospitals Funding (18 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm from where the minimum 2% to 2.5% reduction in hospital budgets this year is envisaged to come; if he will address the deficit in acute...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Medicinal Products Availability (12 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Health the number of seizures of mifepristone and misoprostol, which had been ordered online by women, placing Ireland in the position of banning access to their bodily...
- HSE Waiting Lists (9 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time targets for scheduled inpatient and day case treatment and outpatient consultant appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Staff Recruitment (17 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Health to set out his views on whether the recruitment embargo and the reliance on staff on temporary contracts was a major factor in the overcrowding crisis in...
- Drug Treatment Programmes Funding (7 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to restore the cuts to funding for drugs and alcohol treatment, particularly in relation to County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Services for People with Disabilities (7 speeches)
11. To ask the Minister for Health if he will pursue the implementation of agreed measures, targets and timelines for disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14659/15]
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- 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 Dan Neville - the need...
- Leaders' Questions (85 speeches)
May I begin this morning by letting the parents, family and friends of Karen Buckley know that we are all thinking of them at this horrific time. Yesterday, the Simon Communities briefed us...
- Order of Business (18 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. a13, Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 - Financial Resolution; No. 7, Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015 - Second Stage (resumed); and No....
- Public Electronic Communications Networks (Improper Use) Bill 2015: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for certain offences in connection with the improper use of public electronic communications networks; and to provide...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Financial Resolution (1 speech)
I move:THAT provision be made in the Act giving effect to this Resolution for the charging in accordance with regulations made by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government,...
- Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 speeches)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Peadar Tóibín on Wednesday, 15 April 2015That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges the establishment of the Low Pay Commission and the...
- Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Regulation of Health and Social Care Professions (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter as we have discussed the need to regulate psychotherapy and counselling over the past ten years. There is no regulation at present in...
- Hospice Services (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter and the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, for making the effort to attend to take it. The Minister is very familiar with this issue...
- Garda Resources (4 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to raise this extremely important topic in the Dáil. I mean no offence to the Minister of State, but I am disappointed that the Minister for Justice and Equality...
- Mortgage Interest Rates (15 speeches)
I welcome the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, to the House and thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this Topical Issue for debate. It concerns a hugely pressing issue...
