Dáil debates
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Leaders' Questions (50 speeches)
As the country is recovering from and absorbing the impact of Storm Ophelia, I take the opportunity to offer my sympathy to the families of those who lost their lives - Clare O'Neill from...
- Order of Business (49 speeches)
Tuesday's business shall be No. 7, motion re Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Republic of Kazakhstan) Order 2017, back from committee; No. 8, motion re Exchange of Information Relating...
- Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Republic of Kazakhstan) Order 2017: Motion (4 speeches)
I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Republic of Kazakhstan) Order 2017,a copy of which was laid before Dáil...
- Taxation Agreement: Motion (2 speeches)
I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Exchange of Information Relating to Tax Matters (Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of...
- Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2017: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2017,copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil...
- Broadcasting Act 2009 (Designation of Major Events) Order 2017: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following draft Order:Broadcasting Act 2009 (Designation of Major Events) Order 2017,copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on...
- Estimates for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That Dáil Éireann take note of the Statement of Estimates of moneys required in respect of ongoing expenditure for the period beginning on 1st January, 2018 and ending on 31st...
- Estimates for Public Services 2017: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That, notwithstanding Standing Order 182(1) or (2) of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business and the Resolutions of the Dáil of 15th December, 2016,...
- Thirteenth Report of Committee of Selection: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the Thirteenth Report of the Standing Committee of Selection in accordance with Standing Order 27F, copies of which were laid before Dáil...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Cabinet Committees (42 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the newly formed Cabinet committees.. [40543/17]
- Seanad Reform (14 speeches)
3. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the reform of Seanad Éireann. [40544/17]
- Departmental Staff (41 speeches)
4. To ask the Taoiseach to set out the number of political staff and advisors he has employed; and the role of each. [41631/17]
- 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) Deputy Dessie Ellis - the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Child Care Costs (7 speeches)
29. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the subsidy levels under the single affordable childcare scheme are sufficient to account for the absence of increases...
- Child Poverty (8 speeches)
30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extra efforts being taken to tackle youth poverty and child homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43809/17]
- Departmental Expenditure (7 speeches)
31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding that will be ring-fenced for the roll-out of mandatory reporting in 2018; her views on whether this will be...
- Child and Family Agency Staff (7 speeches)
32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures or initiatives being undertaken to ensure the retention of highly skilled social workers within the Child and Family Agency;...
- Child and Family Agency Funding (7 speeches)
33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which the additional financial resources apportioned to Tusla announced in budget 2018 will be deployed. [43904/17]
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (7 speeches)
34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to set out the measures being taken to ensure child care services have the capacity to cope with the expansion of the free preschool year...
- Child Protection (7 speeches)
35. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the 572 adult retrospective reports of abuse that were unallocated by Tusla in June 2017; and if the number of unallocated...
- Child Abuse (7 speeches)
36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the resources in place to deal with allegations of child abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43440/17]
- Child Care Services Staff (11 speeches)
37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether an increase in capitation payments for early childhood care and education, ECCE, providers of 7% will be sufficient in...
- Early Years Sector (11 speeches)
40. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of her proposal to provide sectoral payscales for those working in community childcare settings. [43465/17]
- Child and Family Agency Funding (8 speeches)
42. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that the funding increase afforded to Tusla in budget 2018 will improve the current functioning within Tusla with regard...
- Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (10 speeches)
48. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the shortages in ECCE places particularly for the second free pre-school year in rural Ireland; and the...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Social and Affordable Housing (4 speeches)
I want to discuss the availability of Fingal County Council lands in Dunsink Lane for social and affordable housing and the positive effects that this would deliver and ask why we have sat on...
- Hospital Waiting Lists (6 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to raise this issue to the Chamber again and discuss it with the Minister of State. I discussed a similar issue with her last week. It is important that we make...
- Credit Union Regulation (4 speeches)
I thank the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this very important issue of the floor of the Dáil. Just after noon on Friday, the liquidators were appointed to...
- Pension Provisions (9 speeches)
The next topical issue is in the names of Deputies Broughan, Clare Daly and Jack Chambers. Each Deputy has one minute.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (71 speeches)
I call Deputy Michael Collins to move the motion. He and his colleagues have 20 minutes between them.
