Dáil debates
Tuesday, 16 May 2017
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Leaders' Questions (75 speeches)
We hear much talk about rural Ireland and about the need to bring employment to, and create opportunities in, rural Ireland but invariably Government and State interventions are becoming more...
- Order of Business (112 speeches)
Tuesday’s business shall be No. 5, motions re EU regulation in justice area and in insolvency proceedings - referral to committee; No. 6, Financial Resolutions for Minerals Development...
- Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: First Stage (7 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to consolidate and reform the criminal law concerning harassment and harmful communications, to repeal certain provisions of the...
- EU Regulations: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in...
- Minerals Development Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Financial Resolutions (1 speech)
I move:THAT provision be made in the Act giving effect to this Resolution for the charging in accordance with the Act of application fees for a mining licence. andTHAT provision be made in the...
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 6th May 2016, setting out the rota in which questions to members of the Government are to be asked, questions for oral...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his summit meeting with the Dutch and Danish Prime Ministers; and the agreements and proposals made for future engagements. [21873/17]
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 speeches)
5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation with the British Prime Minister, Ms Theresa May, on 18 April 2017 following her announcement of a general election. [21952/17]
- EU Meetings (12 speeches)
9. To ask the Taoiseach if he has made particular suggestions to the EU Council on the way the Government views the manner in which the EU should reform in the short, medium and long term. [21844/17]
- Topical Issue Matters (1 speech)
Before we move on to Priority Questions, 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...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (1 speech)
As Deputy Niall Collins is not present, I will take Question No. 49 first.
- Departmental Funding (8 speeches)
49. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that InterTrade Ireland is chronically underfunded; and the reason she is not providing it...
- Brexit Issues (9 speeches)
48. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the contingencies and supports in place to safeguard Irish jobs and exports in a hard Brexit scenario; the number of EU Competitiveness...
- Employment Rights (7 speeches)
50. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when in 2017 the heads of a Bill regarding protections for workers on insecure, low-hour contracts will be published; and if she will...
- Arms Trade (9 speeches)
51. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the recently published report under the Control of Exports Act 2008 covering the period 1 January 2015 to 31 December...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Employment Rights (17 speeches)
Question No. 52 is in the name of Deputy Bríd Smith. Permission has been given to Deputy Gino Kenny to take the question in the House.
- Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (20 speeches)
53. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to facilitate a Dáil Éireann debate on the CETA before the summer recess; the reason a debate has not been held to...
- IDA Supports (11 speeches)
54. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will liaise with IDA Ireland and Meath County Council to help to facilitate and expedite the provision of a football pitch on...
- Zero-hour Contracts (7 speeches)
57. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out how she intends to tackle the prevalence of zero-hour contracts; her policies in relation to pay and conditions in...
- Brexit Issues (5 speeches)
58. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the grave uncertainty regarding Brexit is impacting negatively on the motor industry and car sales sectors; the steps she will take...
- Science Foundation Ireland Remit (5 speeches)
60. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether the shift in Science Foundation Ireland's mission from basic oriented research to applied research, as per the...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Occupational Therapy (4 speeches)
Tá mé lán-sásta gur thug an Ceann Comhairle an deis dom an t-ábhar tábhachtach seo a lua ar an Athló inniu. I am very grateful to the Ceann Comhairle for...
- Bord na Móna (6 speeches)
I find it incredible that a Minister of State at the Department of Health who is from inner city Dublin, although, in fairness, originally from Galway, as I found to my cost in a recent national...
- School Enrolments (4 speeches)
It is hardly necessary for me to rehearse all of the issues again. We have had this discussion several times already. On 1 March, the Minister advised me that one of the primary schools in...
- Passport Applications (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this Topical Issue. I also thank the Minister and I am pleased to see him in attendance. I compliment his Department and officials in...
- Minerals Development Bill 2015: Instruction to Committee (3 speeches)
I move:That, pursuant to Standing Order 154, it be an instruction to the Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment that it has power to make provision in the Minerals...
- Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time".
- Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 speeches)
I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." We live in a State where it is legal to keep a child out of school based on the religion of his or her parents or the lack of religion. We live...
- Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment has completed its consideration of the Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 and has made no amendments thereto.
- Estimates for Public Services 2017: Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
The Select Committee on Education and Skills has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2017: Vote 26 -...
