Dáil debates
Thursday, 16 July 2015
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.30 a.m.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Septic Tank Grants (8 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will commit to extending eligibility for the domestic wastewater treatment systems grants to include septic tanks that...
- Water Charges Administration (16 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions position regarding water charges and a referendum to ensure that water...
- Housing Assistance Payments (7 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the housing assistance payment will be confined to existing rent cap limits for rent supplement in locations where those...
- Leader Programmes Applications (13 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of companies/entities that have been selected to deliver the Leader programme in various areas around the...
- Irish Water Establishment (11 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current position; when he expects a EUROSTAT report on Irish Water's finances to be completed; and if he is satisfied...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Housing Provision (7 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he remains satisfied about the effectiveness of the steps taken to date by his Department to deal with...
- Housing Assistance Payments (7 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider raising the housing assistance payment rental levels for applicants in recognition of the fact that it...
- Pyrite Remediation Programme (7 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views regarding the operation of the pyrite remediation scheme, with particular reference to any consideration being...
- Septic Tank Inspections (7 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the number of houses in County Wexford that have their own septic tank unit; if he is...
- Building Regulations (7 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he and his colleague, the Minister of State with responsibility for housing and planning, wrote to each chief...
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (10 speeches)
Amendment No. 1 has been ruled out of order.
- Business of Dáil (1 speech)
For the interest of Members as it is their last day, we have received notification that Alexis FitzGerald, a former Member of this House and the Upper House, married to Mary Flaherty, has just...
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 speeches)
I move amendment No. 5:In page 5, to delete lines 25 to 31, and in page 6, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following:“ “debt” does not include a debt for repayment...
- Topical Issue Matters (1 speech)
The following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A were received by the Ceann Comhairle and this is a list of the names of the members in each case: (1)...
- Leaders’ Questions (331 speeches)
The Tánaiste will be aware there has been a massive investment in the post office network for several years. I am sure she will acknowledge that this happened primarily during the lifetime...
- Order of Business (38 speeches)
My God, we will miss them. They left very fast.
- Referendum (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Referendum Act 1994 to provide for a time frame within which the Courts must ordinarily hear and make a finding on a...
- Banded Hours Contract Bill 2015: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for banded hour contracts, the right for a worker to request increased hours and a corresponding obligation on an...
- Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2015 [‘Jake’s Amendment’]: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Act of 1962 to provide for a verdict of Iatrogenic Suicide and related matters.This Bill is to be known as "Jake's...
- Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 speeches)
Debate resumed on amendment No. 10:In page 6, between lines 32 and 33 to insert the following:“relevant total amount” means in relation to a relevant order, the total amount...
- Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2015: From the Seanad (9 speeches)
The Dáil went into Committee to consider amendments from the Seanad.
- Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: From the Seanad (32 speeches)
The Dáil went into Committee to consider amendments from the Seanad.
- Appointment of Chairperson of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (6 speeches)
I move:That Dáil Éireann, noting that, in order to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Simon O'Brien as the chairperson of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission,...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
Bill entitled an Act to allow for the transfer of shareholdings in certain port companies to local authorities, for the transfer of certain port companies to local authority control and for the...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Second Stage (26 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." On behalf of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, I am pleased to introduce to the House the Harbours Bill...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public...
- Topical Issue Debate (1 speech)
Before moving on to Topical Issues, I wish to say on my own behalf in particular that we are reaching the end of a very long term. I pay tribute to all our staff, who are in need of a...
- Human Rights Issues (4 speeches)
I first raised the case of Asia Bibi in 2011 and I have raised it a number of times in the years since then. She has been imprisoned for the past five years since she was accused of the offence...
- Planning Issues (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for affording me the opportunity to raise this issue. This relates to the town centre development in Naas, development of which has been suspended for the...
- Home Help Service Provision (4 speeches)
I thank the Minister for being in the Chamber to take this Topical Issue matter. I know and understand only too well the needs of older people in our families and communities. As I said last...
- Architectural Heritage (4 speeches)
The Rock of Cashel is a complex of secular and religious structures of national and international importance. It is dramatically situated high above the surrounding plain. It dates from the 4th...
