Dáil debates

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.30 a.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Early Childhood Care Education (15 speeches)
    1. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs for details of the changes to the early childhood care and education scheme announced as part of budget 2016; a breakdown of the number of...
  • Children in Care (9 speeches)
    2. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs how he plans, to accommodate the 60% of persons who leave care who currently have not been assigned aftercare workers; to reduce the 68% of...
  • Domestic Violence Refuges (9 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the Cuan Álainn women's refuge centre in Tallaght in Dublin 24; that since 2012 it has housed 71 women and 96 children...
  • Family Resource Centres (9 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will commit to providing adequate resources to put family resource centres, FRCs, on a sustainable financial footing to protect their...
  • Family Resource Centres (8 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the retention of the family resource centre national programme is an issue he believes to be of paramount importance to his Department;...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • School Completion Programme (7 speeches)
    6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will engage with the Department of Education and Skills regarding moving the school completion programme back to that Department; and...
  • Child and Family Agency Funding (7 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps he will take in response to the funding pressures to child and family services, as highlighted by Tusla, the Child and Family...
  • Inter-Country Adoptions (8 speeches)
    8. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the announcement that his Department is no longer pursuing an adoption agreement with Russia; the reason for this; and if he...
  • School Completion Programme (9 speeches)
    9. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 8 July 2015, if the Economic and Social Research Institute review of the School Completion...
  • National Carers Strategy (6 speeches)
    10. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his assessment of the level of support that is currently available to young carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35325/15]
• Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
  I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
• Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (108 speeches)
  Amendments Nos. 1, 5, 81 to 87, inclusive, 121 and 148 form a composite proposal and may be discussed together by agreement.
• Topical Issue Matters (1 speech)
  Before commencing Leaders' Questions, 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...
• Leaders' Questions (124 speeches)
  The report on paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland comes to a very stark conclusion that the IRA army council still exists and the report endorses PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton's...
• Order of Business (97 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 41, Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No. 7, Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015 -...
• Electoral (Amendment) (Moriarty Tribunal) Bill 2015: First Stage (19 speeches)
  I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the implementation of the findings of the Moriarty tribunal, to provide for an increased level of transparency in...
• Education (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to establish an Ombudsman for Education, to provide an appeal mechanism for decisions of boards of education concerning decisions...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Northern Ireland Issues (4 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this very important matter for discussion. Yesterday's report by the PSNI and MI5 on paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland contained serious...
  • Hospital Services (4 speeches)
    In 2011, promises were made by other politicians that the accident and emergency unit in Roscommon would remain open. Certain events happened and the Mallow report stated accident and emergency...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision (8 speeches)
    This is a proposition from the Irish League of Credit Unions that has been with the Minister, Deputy Kelly, since before the budget on 29 September. It proposes to invest in a State-owned...
  • Post Office Network (4 speeches)
    I welcome the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy White, to the Chamber. It is good have the opportunity to discuss in the short term the question of the closure of...
• Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (124 speeches)
  I move amendment No. 66:In page 49, to delete lines 34 to 41, and in page 50, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following:“(8) A decision-making representative for a relevant...
• Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (43 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
• National Asset Management Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (38 speeches)
  The following motion was moved by Deputy Michael McGrath on Tuesday, 21 October 2015: