Dáil debates
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Leaders' Questions (74 speeches)
The extent of the homelessness and housing scandal represents a damning indictment of our society and the Government's inability to come to terms with it. There are about 5,187 adults, 1,400...
- Appointment of Ministers of State (1 speech)
I wish formally to announce the following change to the titles and functions of a Minister of State: the Government has appointed Deputy Seán Kyne to be Minister of State at the Department...
- Order of Business (60 speeches)
I wish the Tipperary ladies the very best on Sunday in the all-Ireland match. Today's business shall be: No. 8, motion re special meeting of joint committees for engagement with Mr. Guy...
- Special Meeting of Joint Committees with Mr. Guy Verhofstadt MEP: Motion (54 speeches)
I move:That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders:(a) two or more Joint Committees, in accordance with their orders of reference, may hold a joint meeting or meetings in this Dáil for...
- Broadcasting Act 2009 (Designation of Major Events) Order 2017: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following draft Order:Broadcasting Act 2009 (Designation of Major Events) Order 2017,copies of which were laid before Dáil...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Cabinet Committee Meetings (38 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action. [32150/17]
- Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 speeches)
6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Cabinet Committee on Social Policy and Public Service Reform. [32097/17]
- Brexit Issues (35 speeches)
7. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet Committee on Brexit will be retained when Cabinet committees are re-established. [32321/17]
- Messages from Seanad (1 speech)
Before moving to questions to the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, I will deal with messages from the Seanad. Seanad Éireann has passed the National Shared Services...
- 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 Brendan Smith -...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Community Employment Schemes Administration (7 speeches)
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the community employment scheme known as Pathways to Employment at Southill,...
- JobPath Programme (8 speeches)
31. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the numerous ongoing issues facing persons seeking employment who have engaged with...
- Public Services Card (11 speeches)
32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the scope of the public services card; the measures currently in place to ensure data protection and...
- Low Pay Commission Remit (7 speeches)
33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the remit of the Low Pay Commission to provide for the achievement of a living wage; and if she will make a...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service (11 speeches)
34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efforts she has made to halt the restructuring of MABS and CIS until such a time as the concerns of the many staff and...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Jobseeker's Benefit (15 speeches)
35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will change the way in which jobseeker's benefit is calculated for those in casual or part time work or on temporary...
- Employment Rights (7 speeches)
36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the employment legislation that has been transferred to her remit; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Pension Provisions (7 speeches)
37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider in budget 2018 extending the homemaker's scheme to ensure women who took time off work to raise their...
- Social Welfare Code (7 speeches)
39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will disregard means testing of family income supplement with rent assessments; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits Reviews (7 speeches)
40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she monitors the number of applications for disability allowance, invalidity pension, carer's allowance or...
- Jobseeker's Payments (27 speeches, 1 comment)
41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to end reduced jobseeker's payments for those between 18 and 25 years of age and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Insurance (10 speeches)
42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to tackle bogus self employment; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the amount collected...
- Public Services Card (5 speeches)
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the requirement for the public services card; her views on whether other Departments and agencies should...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Road Network (4 speeches)
I thank the Leas-Ceann Comhairle. I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle selecting this Topical Issue. It is an issue of huge concern in the Cavan-Monaghan area and in the general Border region,...
- Schools Building Projects (4 speeches)
I welcome that the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, is here this evening to respond to this issue concerning the land in Harold's Cross which was purchased by his Department...
- School Management (4 speeches)
Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle as an deis an t-ábhar tábhachtach seo a phlé anseo um thráthnóna. Táim buíoch as an Aire as a bheith i...
- Medicinal Products Availability (4 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle and his staff for giving me the opportunity to raise this important issue which is a matter of life and death for a constituent of mine and many others throughout the...
- Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (48 speeches)
Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to share time: eight minutes for myself, seven minutes for Deputy Bríd...
