Dáil debates

Wednesday, 4 October 2017

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 12 noon
• Leaders' Questions (56 speeches)
  The story for people with disabilities continues to worsen year after year. Access to therapies is simply appalling and respite care and opportunities for work for people with disabilities are...
• Questions on Promised Legislation (98 speeches)
  There is a lengthy section in the programme for Government on disability objectives and legislation. Focusing on one area, it states:Personalised budgets provide an individual with more control...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
  • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 speeches)
    1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Chancellor Merkel recently. [40409/17]
  • Ministerial Responsibilities (8 speeches)
    8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the delegation orders he has made in respect of Ministers of State assigned to his Department. [40533/17]
  • Irish Prisoners Abroad (12 speeches)
    10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation with the President of Egypt, Mr. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on 28 August 2017. [40534/17]
• Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Post Office Network (39 speeches)
    22. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to address concerns that wholesale closures of post offices are imminent; his further plans for the post...
  • National Broadband Plan (47 speeches)
    23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether he has sufficient control of the tender process of the national broadband plan to ensure that each...
  • National Mitigation Plan (11 speeches)
    26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on concerns that the national mitigation strategy will fail to reduce Ireland's carbon emissions sufficiently...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • North-South Interconnector (12 speeches)
    27. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the North-South interconnector project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41712/17]
• 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) Deputies Niamh Smyth and Mattie...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
  • National Broadband Plan Implementation (13 speeches)
    28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when it is expected a contract will be awarded for the national broadband scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Climate Change Negotiations (12 speeches)
    29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will be attending the Bonn COP conference in November 2017; if he will be able to give a commitment that the State...
  • National Broadband Plan Implementation (11 speeches)
    31. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of high speed broadband in County Kildare to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Energy Policy (4 speeches)
    34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is conducting a review of his Department's strategy to combat energy poverty 2016 to 2019; the way in which he...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Post Office Network (8 speeches)
    The first issue, tabled by Deputies Niamh Smyth and Mattie McGrath, is for the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, who is still with us.
  • Medicinal Products Availability (6 speeches)
    PKU is a rare genetic disorder that affects a person's metabolism. People with PKU are unable to break down an amino acid called phenylalanine, phe, a natural substance found in food. This...
  • Respite Care Services Provision (11 speeches)
    Bogfaimid ar aghaidh anois go dtí an chéad cheann eile in ainmnithe na Teachtaí O'Dowd, Adams agus Breathnach. Níl an Teachta O'Dowd anseo. Níl sé ábalta...
  • Direct Provision System (6 speeches)
    I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am glad to have the opportunity to raise this issue which is causing a lot of stress and concern to those affected who are living in direct provision. We are...
• Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (35 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This Bill creates a one-stop shop, which we would like to see, for approving refurbishment projects in local authorities, which will remove many...
• Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (1 speech)
  I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 141.
• Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill now be read a Second Time"
• Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registrations Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
  I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Employment and Social Protection pursuant to Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 149(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business.
• Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 speeches)
  Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."