Dáil debates

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Insurance Data (7 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Finance when the national claims information database and the integrated insurance fraud database will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Budget Targets (7 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Finance the resources available to him in budget 2019 based on known data; the way in which it has changed from the €3.2 billion cited in the summer economic...
  • Budget Targets (24 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Finance if demographics have been included in the calculations for gross fiscal space or net fiscal space; if investment in the rainy day fund is after the calculation...
  • Corporation Tax Regime (7 speeches)
    6. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to close corporate tax loopholes for special purpose vehicles, SPVs, real estate investment trusts, REITs, banks and corporations that are paying...
  • Criminal Prosecutions (16 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with the NAMA chairman or CEO regarding a court case involving a former NAMA official charged with leaking information that the DPP...
• Other Questions (0 speeches)
  • Corporation Tax (7 speeches)
    8. To ask the Minister for Finance if the billions of euro of intangible assets onshored during the period when there was no limit on the ability of companies to use these assets to write off tax...
  • Personal Contract Plans (9 speeches)
    9. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the contention by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission that personal contract plans, PCPs, should be covered by the Central...
  • NAMA Operations (10 speeches)
    10. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has discussed the Data Protection Commissioner's ruling on NAMA and a group (details supplied) with the NAMA CEO and chairman; the reason NAMA has not...
  • Tracker Mortgage Examination (8 speeches)
    11. To ask the Minister for Finance the latest engagement he had with the Central Bank on tracker mortgage issues; if he raised the issues of prevailing rate customers, customers of a building...
  • Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base Proposals (6 speeches)
    12. To ask the Minister for Finance the strategies he is developing to mitigate shocks to corporation tax revenues arising from President Macron's proposed 2019-2020 EU reforms or other factors...
• Leaders' Questions (27 speeches)
  I implore leaders to adhere to the time limit.
• Visit of Czech delegation (1 speech)
  Before calling the Minister, I extend a very warm welcome to the members of the Czech Parliament EU affairs committee led by their Chairman, Mr. Václav Hampl. They are most welcome.
• Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (8 speeches)
  I thank Deputy Róisín Shortall for raising this issue because it is a matter of concern for her and the House. The 1,631 cases to which she referred were not part of the CervicalCheck...
• Questions on Promised Legislation (72 speeches)
  In the context of the recent CervicalCheck scandal and litigation, the Government has been at pains to point out that it does not wish to take an adversarial approach to victims of State...
• Residential Tenancies (Rent Pressure Zones and Student Accommodation) (Amendment) Bill 2018: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as amended by the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act...
• 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 Peter Fitzpatrick - to...
• Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
  • Migration Data (13 speeches)
    1. To ask the Taoiseach the current rates of emigration. [19859/18]
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Services for People with Disabilities (4 speeches)
    I have been contacted by the campaign co-ordinators of Down Syndrome Ireland's Meath-Louth branch about the Health Service Executive's devastating decision to cut its funding by 60%. The branch...
  • Occupational Therapy Staff (8 speeches)
    I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Doyle, to the House. It is not his fault. This is a matter specifically to do with health. It is good to have the Minister of State at the Department of...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision (24 speeches)
    The purpose of this Topical Issue matter is to ask the Minister of State, Deputy English, who has responsibility for regeneration, to discuss a social and affordable housing scheme model for two...
• Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (257 speeches)
  Debate resumed on amendment No. 13: -(Deputy Róisín Shortall)
• Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Fifth Stage (11 speeches)
  Question proposed: "That the Bill do now pass."
• Message from Select Committee (1 speech)
  The Select Committee on Justice and Equality has concluded its consideration of the Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017 and has made amendments thereto.
• Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (165 speeches)
  I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes that:— the Affordable Housing Scheme was stood down by the Fine Gael-Labour Government in 2011; — the Confidence and Supply Arrangement...