Dáil debates

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.30 a.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Social Welfare Benefits (21 speeches)
    1. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to expand social welfare entitlements for self-employed persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33329/15]
  • Disability Activation Projects (17 speeches)
    2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department failed to extend or replace the Disability Activation Project, at least until such time as the...
  • Anti-Poverty Strategy (21 speeches)
    3. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her Department's strategy to combat food poverty; her views on the current level of food poverty in the population; and if she will...
  • Poverty Data (64 speeches)
    4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to reduce relative and absolute poverty rates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33330/15]
  • Employment Rights (12 speeches)
    5. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding pledges made by the Government in 2014 to remove an anomaly in the insolvency payments scheme, whereby...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • State Pensions Payments (11 speeches)
    6. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to correct the discriminatory and inequitable discrepancy between the treatment of persons in receipt of a...
  • One-Parent Family Payments (6 speeches)
    7. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection in the context of any review, if she will ensure that lone parents who are working part-time do not find themselves disadvantaged by...
  • Social Welfare Payments Administration (10 speeches)
    8. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of the one-parent family payment who have transitioned to jobseeker's payment since the beginning of July...
  • Pension Provisions (12 speeches)
    9. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the inequality experienced by persons who are in receipt of reduced pensions because of the marriage bar, the...
  • Poverty Data (7 speeches)
    10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the survey on income and living conditions, SILC, 2013, which was published earlier this year and clearly shows that...
• Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (37 speeches)
  Debate resumed on amendment No. 27: (Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Ann Phelan)
• 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 James Bannon - the need...
• Leaders' Questions (147 speeches)
  I am sure the Taoiseach is aware of the harrowing accounts in today's newspapers of the incredible trauma that Mark and Emma Corcoran had to endure at the hands of seven criminals who travelled...
• Order of Business (127 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 46, Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015 - Report Stage (resumed); No. 6, Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and...
• Referendum and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the timely hearing of Referendum Petitions; to provide that appeals from decisions of the High Court in relation to...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Road Traffic Legislation (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise this important issue. The issue of dirt bikes has plagued not just my community but communities across the country. People are...
  • Tourism Promotion (4 speeches)
    When Waterford's 147 km coastline was excluded from the Wild Atlantic Way initiative I then sought assurances from the Department that my constituency was not being left behind in what we all...
  • Health Strategies (4 speeches)
    I thank the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this matter. As the Minister of State will be aware, yesterday was World Heart Day and it was fitting that in Brussels the heart failure...
  • Home Help Service Provision (5 speeches)
    What have the HSE and the Government against HSE-employed home helps? There is no doubt that there has been an assault on the hours available to home helps across the country over the past...
• Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 speeches)
  Debate resumed on amendment No. 31:
• Business of Dáil (2 speeches)
  It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or the Order of the Dáil of this day, that the arrangements agreed today in relation to the proceedings on No. 13a, motion re...
• Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (240 speeches)
  Amendment No. 32 is ruled out of order.
• Social Housing Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (77 speeches)
  The following motion was moved by Deputy Dessie Ellis on Tuesday, 29 September 2015: