Dáil debates
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.30 a.m.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (27 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the social impact assessment her Department has undertaken of her changes to the one-parent family payment; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Employment Support Services (8 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has read the document, A Fair Recovery for Jobseekers with Disabilities: Sinn Féin Proposals for Immediate Action from the Department of...
- One-Parent Family Payments (13 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of lone parents currently working part-time who are on rent allowance; the provision that has been made for them to ensure they benefit...
- Social Welfare Overpayments (9 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide for each of the years 2011 to 2014 and to date in 2015, the total overpayments made by her Department in each year, indicating the...
- Social Welfare Payments Administration (13 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will withdraw new social protection forms encouraging persons to abandon their local post offices in favour of financial institutions, when...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- One-Parent Family Payments (7 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will acknowledge the concerns of many homeless charities to the effect that changes to the one-parent family payment structure will lead to an...
- Disability Support Services (11 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend all Intreo services to persons with disabilities, including all the voluntary activation schemes, including the Youth Guarantee and...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Data (36 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of applications for an uplift in rent supplement that have been received in 2015 to date; the number...
- One-Parent Family Payments (14 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which alternative payment arrangements for lone parents whose one-parent family allowance has ceased or been reduced continue to match...
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (23 speeches)
Amendment No. 1 in the name of Deputy Catherine Murphy has been ruled out of order.
- Leaders' Questions (81 speeches)
It is accepted nationally and internationally that the scale of mortgage arrears continues to be a major problem, and is one that impedes our economic development and impacts socially on the...
- Order of Business (104 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 35, Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015 - Report and Final Stages (resumed); No. 1, National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015...
- 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 Helen McEntee - the need...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- School Accommodation (4 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State for taking this debate. As he knows, and as the Acting Chairman pointed out, Dunboyne College of Further Education recently received independent status and an...
- Mortgage Resolution Processes (7 speeches)
According to reports that were published in today's The Irish Timesand elsewhere, seven lenders are in breach of the mortgage arrears code that was drawn up by the banks and the Government. They...
- Nursing Staff Recruitment (4 speeches)
This Government is fully committed to job creation and ironing out the red tape that prevents employers from taking on staff, yet at the moment there are 300 vacancies in the private sector...
- Hospital Waiting Lists (10 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this important matter for discussion in the Topical Issue Debate. Waterford Regional Hospital, now known as Waterford University Hospital, is the...
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 speeches)
I move amendment No. 4:In page 7, line 28, to delete "postcode contractor" and substitute "Data Protection Commissioner".
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015. Given the purpose of the Bill, it is also worth taking...
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: 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) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public...
- Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to present the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill 2014 on behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality,...
- Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality pursuant to 82A3(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business and paragraph (8) of...
- Children (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Children (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs pursuant to Standing Order 82A(3)(a) and 126(1).
- Credit Unions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (56 speeches)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Michael McGrath on Tuesday, 23 June 2015:"That Dáil Éireann:agrees that:— the Government has no clear policy to support the strategic...