Dáil debates

Tuesday, 20 February 2018

  • Prelude (0 speeches)
    Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
  • Leaders' Questions (27 speeches)
    Many thousands of people in the State right now are living in fear and with a considerable degree of anxiety following the news that the PTSB is about to offload some 20,000 mortgages to...
  • Order of Business (80 speeches)
    Today’s business shall be No. 7, motion re seventeenth report of the Committee of Selection; No. 8, motion re Sectoral Employment Order (Mechanical Engineering Building Services...
  • Public Health (Availability of Defibrillators) Bill 2018: First Stage (7 speeches)
    I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to require the management boards of schools to install and maintain defibrillators so that they are available for public use and...
  • Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (5 speeches)
    I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2015 to allow for the regulation of loan owners and...
  • Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Referral to Select Committee [Private Members] (4 speeches)
    As this is a Private Members' Bill it must, under Standing Orders 84A(3)(a) and 149(1), be referred to a select committee. The relevant committee for this Bill is the Select Committee on...
  • Seventeenth Report of the Standing Committee of Selection: Motion (1 speech)
    I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the Seventeenth Report of the Standing Committee of Selection in accordance with Standing Order 27F, copies of which were laid before Dáil...
  • Sectoral Employment Order (Mechanical Engineering Building Services Contracting Sector) 2018: Motion (1 speech)
    I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft:Sectoral Employment Order (Mechanical Engineering Building Services Contracting Sector) 2018,a copy of which has been laid...
  • Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2016: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
    I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the report by the Minister with responsibility for Defence, regarding service by the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2016,...
  • Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
    I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 12th December, 2017, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for...
  • Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 Regulations: Referral to Joint Committee (1 speech)
    I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft:(i) Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 4(7)) (Membership of Council)...
  • Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
    • Departmental Staff Data (71 speeches)
      1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff within his Department who have decided to return to work after their official retirement date. [6005/18]
    • Seanad Reform (35 speeches)
      3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his address to Seanad Éireann and the new Seanad reform group. [6006/18]
    • Proposed Legislation (10 speeches)
      6. To ask the Taoiseach the legislation under preparation or planned in his Department. [6883/18]
  • 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 James Browne - the need...
  • Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
    • Income Inequality (13 speeches)
      36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a recent ESRI report (details supplied) and in particular the high rate of deprivation being experienced by...
    • Child Maintenance Payments (9 speeches)
      37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to proposals (details supplied) regarding the establishment of a child maintenance service;...
    • Employment Rights (20 speeches)
      38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to deal with the issue of bogus self-employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8466/18]
  • Other Questions (1 speech)
    Deputies Niamh Smyth and Bríd Smith have sent apologies in respect of Questions Nos. 41 and 42, respectively.
    • Jobseeker's Payments (7 speeches)
      43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the report into the impact of the reduced jobseeker's payment rates for jobseekers aged 18 to 25 years, further...
    • Social Welfare Code Reform (8 speeches)
      44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the uptake to date of treatment benefits which were recently extended to the self-employed; her plans to extend additional...
    • Departmental Priorities (7 speeches)
      46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy changes she plans to pursue in 2018; her priorities in view of the publication of the social impact assessment of...
    • Public Services Card Authentication (17 speeches)
      47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have been refused access to social protection payments for not having a public services card, PSC;...
    • Fuel Allowance Payments (7 speeches)
      49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the rates of payment and the periods of time for which the fuel allowance is paid by her Department; and...
    • Public Services Card (7 speeches)
      52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the public services card is mandatory or compulsory; and her views on whether elderly persons and other persons depending...
    • Public Services Card Data (6 speeches)
      55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is a legal requirement to accept a public services card if a card is needed to legally access some services; if the...
  • Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
    • Respite Care Services Provision (4 speeches)
      As we know, respite provides alternative family or institutional care for persons with disabilities in order to give their carers a break, but it also provides a break to the people suffering...
    • Long Stay Residential Units (7 speeches)
      Táim buíoch go bhfuil deis labhartha ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo agam agus ag an Teachta Ó Gallchóir. The Minister of State will recall that about two years ago,...
    • NAMA Portfolio (12 speeches)
      This is a really important issue in the Dublin West and Dublin 15 community. NAMA seems to be allowing whoever owns the land under its jurisdiction to ask the local GAA club to move off that...
    • Crime Levels (4 speeches)
      I am glad the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, is here and I thank him for taking this Topical Issue himself. I am sure the spike in the number of burglaries is not unique to...
  • Project Ireland 2040: Statements (18 speeches)
    I understand the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, is sharing time with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy. Is that agreed? Agreed.
  • Dublin Traffic: Motion [Private Members] (94 speeches)
    I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes:— the increased investment in the Luas; — the introduction of Luas Cross City; — the extra carriages to meet demands on the Luas;...