Dáil debates
Thursday, 24 November 2016
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10 a.m.
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (44 speeches)
Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, are related and will be taken together.
- Leaders' Questions (53 speeches)
I ask Members leaving the House to do so quietly. I call Deputy Barry Cowen.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (35 speeches)
There was a commitment in the programme for Government to publish an updated action plan for educational inclusion to narrow the gap between DEIS schools and non-DEIS schools and to examine how...
- Commissions of Investigation (Amendment) Bill 2016: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 to permit the disclosure or publication of evidence given or the contents of...
- Estimates for Public Services 2016: Leave to Introduce (1 speech)
I move:That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2016:-Vote 32 — Jobs,...
- Estimates for Public Services 2016: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That, subject to leave being given to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on 31st December, 2016, the Supplementary Estimates be referred to...
- Business of Dáil (53 speeches)
I call the Government Chief Whip to move a proposal arising out of today's Business Committee meeting.
- Business of Dáil (2 speeches)
Pursuant to Standing Order No. 27E(8), it is proposed that No. 10c, motion re establishment of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services, be taken now without debate...
- Establishment of Committee on Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (40 speeches)
I move:That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders— (a) a Special Committee (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Committee’) is hereby appointed, to be joined with a...
- Social Welfare Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (44 speeches)
I move amendment No. 6:In page 14, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“Unfair Dismissals Employer Reimbursement 27. Any employer who has had a finding made against them of...
- 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 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Declan Breathnach - the...
- Messages from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016, and has made no amendments thereto, and of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Lansdowne Road Agreement (9 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether it is necessary to re-examine the figures in the context of the provision of €0.3 billion in 2017 and 2018;...
- Public Sector Pay (18 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is committed to equal work for equal pay for post-2011 entrants within the public sector; and if he will provide a roadmap for equal...
- Public Service Pay Commission Establishment (9 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the budget that has been assigned to the public service pay commission, PSPC; if he will provide its final terms of reference and its...
- Lansdowne Road Agreement (14 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the Lansdowne Road agreement, dealing with pay restoration for public service workers, is now unsustainable; and his...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Appointments to State Boards (12 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of vacancies on State boards in his Department, the number filled since he took office, the number filled through the Public...
- Drainage Schemes (5 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions he or his Department has had with the authorities in Northern Ireland in relation to the need to have drainage work...
- Departmental Contingency Planning (9 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the preparations his Department is taking for the presidency of Donald Trump in the United States; the contingency planning being...
- Lansdowne Road Agreement (9 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way he is addressing the current public sector industrial unrest; his plans to address fairly the concerns of public sector workers;...
- Flood Prevention Measures (10 speeches)
12. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects to approve the final flood risk management plans for the Wad, Santry, Moyne and other rivers and streams in Dublin Bay...
- Lansdowne Road Agreement (7 speeches)
18. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the Lansdowne Road agreement in respect of public expenditure remains intact; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Government Expenditure (7 speeches)
20. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department's review of Government expenditure ceilings as set out in the ministerial brief; the progress made and timeframe involved;...
- Flood Relief Schemes Status (7 speeches)
21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to advance detailed design of the Baile Bhuirne flood defences; and when the scheme will advance to construction....
- Flood Prevention Measures (5 speeches)
22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent in each of the past three years on the Baile Mhúirne flood defences; the funding in place to advance same; if this...
- Estimates for Public Services 2016: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the year ending 31 December 2016 :Vote...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Services for People with Disabilities (4 speeches)
The crisis in the health system and in this instance in the provision of disability services trundles on. It is widely recognised that early intervention is of critical importance when it comes...
- Medicinal Products Supply (11 speeches)
I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for selecting this matter. I have tried to raise it on Topical Issues for three weeks, so I am very grateful to be able to speak. I want to raise the cases...
- Mortgage Lending (6 speeches)
First off, when the 20% rule was brought in a while back, some people criticised it, but I did not. I thought it was a good idea, as it would help avoid the pitfalls that so many people fall...
- Tillage Sector (4 speeches)
I acknowledge Deputy Margaret Murphy O'Mahony's input on this issue. I had intended to share time with the Deputy but she had another commitment this evening and was unable to come to the House....
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] - Thirty-Fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 speeches)
Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis an Teachta Seán Crowe. The Thirty-Fifth...
