Dáil debates

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.30 a.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Area Based Childhood Programme (7 speeches)
    1. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his Department's plans to ensure that the area based childhood programme remains fully resourced and funded for the upcoming number of years....
  • Child Care Services Regulation (7 speeches)
    2. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to implement a system of registration, inspection and support for childminders in order that they do not have to work in complete...
  • Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (7 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the fact that all core funding for Rape Crisis Network Ireland has been cut and transferred to Tusla; and his views on the loss...
  • Early Childhood Care Education (11 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures his Department is taking to improve access to the early education and preschool care for children with delayed development and...
  • Child and Family Agency (7 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the spend for Túsla-Child and Family Agency in 2014; if there will be increased investment for the coming year; and his views on whether...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Early Childhood Care Education (9 speeches)
    6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the 0.2% of gross domestic product investment in early-years services by comparison with the average of 0.8% across OECD...
  • UN Convention on Children's Rights (13 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the preparations he is making for the upcoming review with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child; and if he will make a...
  • Domestic and Sexual Violence Support Services (12 speeches)
    8. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the discontinuation of funding for Rape Crisis Network Ireland by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency; the measures that have...
  • Foreign Adoptions (10 speeches)
    9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on the current status of negotiations between Russia and Ireland on a bilateral treaty on adoptions. [27335/15]
• Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (38 speeches)
  Debate resumed on amendment No. 2.In page 6, line 29, after “land” where it secondly occurs to insert “not owned by a local authority or publicly owned housing...
• 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 Pat Breen - the need for...
• Leaders' Questions (155 speeches)
  Over 300,000 families across the country are still being screwed by the banks in regard to standard variable rate mortgages. These are families who have benefited least from the current low...
• Order of Business (175 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 37, Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No. 12a, National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 - instruction to...
• Topical Issues (0 speeches)
  • Tracker Mortgage Data (5 speeches)
    I thank the Minister for coming to the House to take this issue. I refer him to 1 July 2014 when I asked the following parliamentary question:To ask the Minister for Finance the number of...
  • Suicide Prevention (4 speeches)
    I welcome the opportunity to raise the recently published report, Connecting for Life: Ireland's National Strategy to Reduce Suicide 2015-2020. It is an important report, widely accepted...
  • Northern Ireland Issues (4 speeches)
    I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle giving me the opportunity to discuss this important issue, which I am raising again following a number of meetings that I have had with relatives of those...
  • Back to School Costs (10 speeches)
    We raise this issue at this time every year. Students are no sooner out of school on their summer holidays than parents start to worry and fret about the cost of sending them back to school at...
• Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (131 speeches)
  I move amendment No. 6:In page 6, to delete line 35 and substitute the following:“(iii) an area of the site greater than 0.05 hectares is vacant or idle,”.
• Central Bank (Variable Rate Mortgages) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 speeches)
  Debate resumed on amendment No. 34:In page 20, to delete lines 5 to 39, and in page 21, to delete lines 1 to 41 and substitute the following:"33.Section 96 (inserted by section 3 of the Planning...