Dáil debates
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (69 speeches)
On a number of occasions since late 2017 I have raised the disgraceful treatment consistently meted out to hospices, disability organisations and mental health services by the Government,...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (39 speeches)
Today's business shall be No. 19, motion re Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures Order 2018 and Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income and Capital Gains) (Republic of...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (41 speeches)
As the Taoiseach is aware, before the summer break the Attorney General advised the Government that it could not proceed with legislation to give effect to the people's decision to repeal the...
- Taxation Orders 2018: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Orders in draft:(i) The Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures Order 2018, a copy of which...
- Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Financial Resolution (1 speech)
I move:THAT provision be made in the Act giving effect to this Resolution for the amendment of subsection (2) of section 133 of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 (No. 52 of 2012), in the...
- Message from Seanad (1 speech)
Seanad Éireann has passed the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017, without amendment; the Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018, without amendment; the Children and Family...
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - 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 Fiona O'Loughlin and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [27644/18]
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 speeches)
6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Ms Christine Lagarde. [28850/18]
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 speeches)
8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his bilateral meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. Theresa May, at the Council of the European Union. [30645/18]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Post Office Closures (7 speeches)
42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether it is acceptable that a minimum of 159 post offices will imminently close; and the steps he will...
- National Broadband Plan Implementation (7 speeches)
43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the fact there is only one supplier left in the tender process for the national broadband plan; his further...
- National Broadband Plan Implementation (7 speeches)
44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband plan process; and the dates by which construction of the broadband network will...
- Energy Infrastructure (7 speeches, 2 comments)
45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to proposals to build a liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal here; his views on whether...
- Sustainable Development Goals (7 speeches)
46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding Ireland's first voluntary national review for sustainable development goals, SDGs, in July 2018;...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Waste Management (7 speeches)
47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports available to facilitate communities interested in establishing local community-based waste collection...
- North-South Interconnector (30 speeches)
48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to publish two reports that his Department has commissioned on the feasibility of undergrounding the...
- Waste Disposal Charges (11 speeches)
49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the waste collection price changes have led to a change in customer behaviour, that is, increased use of the green...
- Petroleum and Gas Exploration (8 speeches)
51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extensions and renewals to licences for petroleum exploration issued in 2018; and the way in which the issuing of...
- National Broadband Plan (11 speeches)
We will move on to Deputy Bríd Smith's next question but I ask her to forfeit her initial 30 seconds and call on the Minister to respond immediately.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Home Care Packages Provision (6 speeches)
I assume the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, is taking this as, unfortunately, the Minister for Health is not here. I wish to raise the horrific situation in which so many patients and...
- Social and Affordable Housing (16 speeches)
I do not know if the Minister of State is aware of the financial situation of MDY Construction. Some reports suggest it is in receivership or, if not, it is definitely in financial trouble,...
- An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: Ordú don Dara Céim - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
- An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 speeches)
Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I apologise to the House, to the Ceann Comhairle and Deputy O'Callaghan. I did...
- An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 speeches)
Amendments Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, in the names of Deputies Coppinger, Barry and Paul Murphy are out of order.
- Ráiteas faoi Eolas do Vótálaithe: Tairiscint - Statement for Information of Voters: Motion (1 speech)
Tairgim:GO nDÉANFAR an ráiteas atá leagtha amach sa Sceideal a ghabhann leis an Rún seo a fhorordú mar eolas do vótálaithe, de bhun alt 23 d’Acht an...
- Business of Dáil (1 speech)
Private Members' business is a motion in the name of Sinn Féin Deputies on the future of the post office network. We need Sinn Féin Deputies in the House. We will suspend the sitting...
- Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (91 speeches)
Private Members' business is a motion on the future of the post office network. I note, given some of the events of the day, that many of the personnel from our Whips' offices must have decamped...