Dáil debates

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

  • Prelude (0 speeches)
    Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2.00 p.m.
  • Leaders' Questions (93 speeches)
    The public is genuinely shocked by the revelations of last week in regard to operational activities by An Garda Síochána, in particular the fact that 146,000 people were wrongly...
  • Order of Business (87 speeches)
    Today's business shall be No. 5, motion re changes to Standing Orders 84, 108 and 111A; No. 13, Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad] - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages;...
  • Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
    • Government-Church Dialogue (29 speeches)
      1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with religious leaders. [13920/17]
    • Constitutional Convention Recommendations (31 speeches)
      4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on outstanding recommendations arising from the Constitutional Convention. [13986/17]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 speeches)
      8. To ask the Taoiseach if he and his departmental officials have carried out an assessment of the legislative changes that will have to be made following the British Government triggering...
  • Business of Dáil (12 speeches)
    It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or in the order of the Dáil of 22 March 2017 that: (1) the Topical Issue debate shall not be taken today; (2) the divisions...
  • An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2017: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: First Stage (5 speeches)
    Tairgim:Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the...
  • Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (5 speeches)
    I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to require medical practitioners to declare any income or gift received from medical suppliers or pharmaceutical companies to the...
  • Standing Orders: Motion (1 speech)
    I move:That, in accordance with the recommendation of the Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform under Standing Order 107(1)(a), the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public...
  • Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (7 speeches)
      16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when her Department will arrange for payments to be issued to community early years child care providers in recognition of the impact on...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 speeches)
      17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered pursuing an injunction on sites in which mother and baby homes and county homes are located; the action she will take...
    • Child Care Services Administration (7 speeches)
      18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the information technology infrastructure that will be used to deliver the single affordable child care scheme; her...
    • Child Care Services Staff (7 speeches)
      19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she is implementing as part of the new affordable childcare scheme to tackle the issue of poor working conditions of the early...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 speeches)
      20. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will publish the second interim report of the Commission of Inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes; if she in conjunction with her...
  • Other Questions (0 speeches)
    • DEIS Scheme (8 speeches)
      21. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the impact that the recent Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, announcements will have on the work that is being carried...
    • Child Care Services Provision (10 speeches)
      23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has given further consideration to concerns raised regarding the proposed single affordable childcare scheme that some of the poorest...
    • Youth Services (7 speeches)
      24. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she has regular contact with youth organisations with a view to ensuring a continuous dialogue with an emphasis on the...
    • Emergency Accommodation Provision (7 speeches)
      25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address the gap in services for persons under 18 years of age in emergency homeless services that are out of emergency...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 speeches)
      26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the implementation of the access and inclusion model; her views on whether it will be sufficiently accessible to all children...
    • School Completion Programme (7 speeches)
      27. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the success of the school completion programme; her plans to expand it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14939/17]
    • Child Care Services (14 speeches)
      28. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the IT portal that will be used to receive applications for the affordable child care scheme due to be introduced in September 2017 will...
    • Aftercare Services Provision (4 speeches)
      29. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has carried out or is carrying out a review of aftercare services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15214/17]
  • Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
    I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
  • Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 speech)
    Bill received for final consideration and passed.
  • Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 speeches)
    I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The purpose of this Bill is to make the necessary provision in Irish law to enable the State to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention on the...
  • An Garda Síochána: Statements (184 speeches)
    An chéad phíosa gnó eile ná ráitis maidir leis an nGarda Síochána, statements on An Garda Síochána. We have two hours for this debate. I call on the...
  • Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (47 speeches)
    I move:That Dáil Éireann: accepts:- the vitally important work undertaken by the Citizens Information services, CIS, and the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, offices across...
  • Estimates for Public Services 2017: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
    The Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2017:...