Dáil debates
Thursday, 6 April 2017
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 12 noon
- Leaders' Questions (86 speeches)
I call on the leader of Fianna Fáil, who has three minutes.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (65 speeches)
We have 15 minutes for questions on promised legislation and I will cut off the discussion after 15 minutes. I ask Deputies to confine their remarks to promised legislation.
- Local Government (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (9 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Local Government Act 1991 to ensure that the county status of a community shall not be altered without the explicit...
- Public Transport Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009. Our bus network is an essential public service. If we are to have private...
- Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Garda Síochána Acts 2005 to 2015 to provide for enhanced powers to be granted to the Policing Authority for...
- 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 Ruth Coppinger - the...
- Defence Forces: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 speeches)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Lisa Chambers on Tuesday, 4 April 2017:
- Personal Explanation by Member (2 speeches)
Deputy Clare Daly has been given permission to make a personal statement under Standing Order 46 on a matter she wants to clarify.
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Colscaradh) 2016: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Divorce) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 speeches)
Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to present the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Divorce)...
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Colscaradh) 2016: Tarchur chuig Roghchoiste - Thirty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution (Divorce) Bill 2016: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
Tairgim:Go gcuirfear an Bille faoi bhráid an Roghfhochoiste um Dhlí agus Ceart agus Comhionannas de réir Bunordú 84A(3)(a) agus 141. I move:That the Bill be referred to the...
- Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (6 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The purpose of this Bill is to update and modernise Irish law relating to hallmarking by, first, amending the law relating to the assaying and...
- Hallmarking (Amendment) Bill 2016: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 149(1).
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Social and Affordable Housing Funding (7 speeches)
1. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his Department's engagement with the European Strategic Investment Fund on social housing PPP investment; and his...
- Commercial Rates (9 speeches)
3. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for reforming the commercial rates and valuations system in local authorities; the details of progress being...
- Social and Affordable Housing (15 speeches)
5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider reintroducing an affordable housing scheme to assist those on low and middle incomes, in view of...
- Homelessness Strategy (21 speeches)
2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that levels of homelessness have increased by 27% in the past 12 months, and that February...
- Voluntary Housing Sector (16 speeches)
4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of voluntary housing organisations that have been provided with assistance from his Department in County...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Social and Affordable Housing (14 speeches)
6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the level of social housing to be provided on the last council-owned site in Blanchardstown (details...
- County Development Plans (10 speeches)
7. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will recommend that the changed plan be resubmitted for public consultation in view of the fact that the...
- Local Authority Housing (9 speeches)
9. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authority new housing starts initiated by each local authority in the past 12 months; the number...
- Rent Controls (17 speeches)
8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to large rent rises in areas adjoining the rent pressure zones; if he will reconsider...
- Housing Policy (10 speeches)
10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress being made on the Government's vacant housing strategy; the reasons for the delays in forming this...
- Private Rented Accommodation (21 speeches)
11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the level of enforcement of residential tenancies legislation on landlords; if additional regulations...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Sports Funding (21 speeches)
We have all been following the revelations this week regarding the treatment of the national women's soccer team. I believe negotiations have taken place and some matters have been resolved but...
- Schools Building Projects Status (7 speeches)
For considerable time I have been raising, through correspondence to the Department and parliamentary questions, the need to progress the proposed building project for the Holy Family special...
- Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (6 speeches)
I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, for coming to the House to deal with this matter, which I am disappointed to have to raise on the floor of the Dáil but I have...
- Youth Services (14 speeches)
I do not know whether the Minister of State has ever had an opportunity to visit my home town of Rathangan in County Kildare.
- Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am well aware that the Bill is far from perfect. There are some clerical errors in it and Deputies can see that we did not include amendments...
