Dáil debates
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Leaders' Questions (43 speeches)
Today again witnesses huge disruption for up to 155,000 passengers on our railway system, the DART and so on. These are people going to work and to hospital appointments on intercity routes....
- Order of Business (153 speeches)
Tuesday's business shall be No. 8, motion re terms of reference of Select Committee on Rural and Community Development, 14th report of the Committee of Selection and appointment of Chairman of...
- Terms of Reference of Select Committee on Rural and Community Development and Fourteenth Report of Committee of Selection: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Orders of the Dáil of 26th September 2017 or 16th June 2016, the number of members appointed to the Select Committee on Rural and Community...
- Finance Bill 2017: Financial Resolutions (1 speech)
I move:THAT Part 16 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39 of 1997), which provides for relief on investments in certain companies, be amended in the manner and to the extent specified in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Cabinet Committee Meetings (51 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [44867/17]
- Brexit Documents (13 speeches)
7. To ask the Taoiseach when his Department received the recent Revenue Commissioners report on Brexit; the actions being taken as a result; and his views on the observations made in the report...
- 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 Fiona O'Loughlin - the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Departmental Agencies Reports (13 speeches)
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all members of the Citizens Information Board unanimously signed off on the cost-benefit analysis report on the...
- JobPath Programme (13 speeches)
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has read Sinn Féin’s report on JobPath as issued to her; her views on the report's findings; the actions...
- State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (9 speeches)
51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the report she has asked her Department to prepare on the post-2012 contributory pension band rates is expected to be...
- One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (15 speeches)
52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason lone parents are being forced to seek child maintenance from an ex-partner in order to retain their one-parent...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Social Welfare Benefits (9 speeches)
54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports she is putting in place to support self-employed persons if, for example, the business fails or closes due to...
- Unemployment Levels (7 speeches)
55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to explain the reason the summer economic statement projects the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 5.5% from 2019 to...
- Pension Provisions (13 speeches)
57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to bring forward measures to address the anomaly whereby persons here dependent on a British state pension are...
- State Pension (Contributory) (10 speeches)
58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to re-examine the situation where women who were in the workforce and left in earlier years for family duties are...
- Legislative Programme (7 speeches)
60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the heads of the Bill regarding protection for persons on insecure low hour contracts will be published; when the Bill...
- Citizen Information Services (5 speeches)
61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the Citizens Information Board's refusal to appear before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Employment Affairs...
- State Pensions (9 speeches)
64. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she is taking to address the ongoing discrimination against over 35,000 older persons in the calculation of their...
- Working Family Payment (4 speeches)
65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason she no longer plans on introducing a new working family payment, as committed to in the programme for Government;...
- State Pensions (8 speeches)
66. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reinstate the State transition pension; her further plans to prevent persons forced to retire at 65 years of age...
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Care Services Provision (6 speeches)
I tabled this Topical Issue every day since we came back at the end of September. It is in regard to the day care centre on Drogheda Street in Monasterevin, which the Minister of State may or...
- Primary Care Centres (6 speeches)
I wish to raise an important local issue with the Minister of State. It relates to the HSE's plans to close the local primary centre in Passage West, County Cork. The Minister of State knows...
- Planning Guidelines (7 speeches)
I am sure many Deputies, particularly those representing the constituencies of the west, are deeply concerned about the apparent failure of Apple to proceed with a data centre in Athenry, as was...
- Housing Provision (4 speeches)
The House may not be aware, but council housing waiting lists have increased by 9% in the last 12 months. What this means in real terms is that the housing waiting lists for local authority...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (216 speeches)
All Members can speak twice on each amendment or group of amendments. The first contribution shall not exceed seven minutes and the second shall not exceed two minutes. Of course, the Member...
- Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (53 speeches)
I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes, with alarm, the revelations regarding breaches of minimum standards in the private rental sector contained in last weeks RTÉ Investigates...
