Dáil debates
Tuesday, 9 April 2019
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (66 speeches)
Last week I referred to the fact that as many as 80,000 women were waiting for cervical smear test results. There is an enormous backlog, largely because of a decision taken by the Minister for...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (73 speeches)
The business of this week shall be set out as in the second revised report of the Business Committee dated 9 April 2019. Tuesday’s business shall be No. 13, motion re Electoral...
- Electoral (Supplement to the Register of Electors) Regulations 2019: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft:Electoral (Supplement to the Register of Electors) Regulations 2019,a copy of which has been laid in draft form...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Instruction to Committee (1 speech)
I move:That, pursuant to Standing Order 154, it shall be an instruction to the Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, in relation to the Residential Tenancies (Amendment)...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 speeches)
Tomorrow I will attend a special meeting of the European Council in Brussels. This meeting, which will take place in Article 50 format, was convened by President Donald Tusk following the...
- 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 Bernard J. Durkan and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Housing Loans (9 speeches)
60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding status of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16449/19]
- Social and Affordable Housing (11 speeches)
61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the reason for the significant variance in the cost of the management and maintenance in the first tranche of social...
- Credit Unions (31 speeches)
62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the development of a special purpose vehicle by the Irish Council for Social Housing for the investment of funds...
- Water Services Infrastructure (19 speeches)
63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the oversight or review role his Department has with respect to the Shannon to Dublin pipeline project; and if he will make a...
- Housing Provision (11 speeches)
64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation will be brought forward to declare statutorily a homeless and housing emergency in view of the homeless figures...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision (7 speeches)
65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to reduce the social housing waiting lists particularly in County Wexford; and if he will make a...
- Planning Guidelines (8 speeches)
66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties encountered in a number of towns in obtaining planning permission for...
- Social and Affordable Housing (11 speeches)
67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the implications of rent, house prices and mortgage costs for public sector workers; his views on the lack of...
- Vacant Sites Levy (16 speeches)
68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish the 31 progress reports on the implementation of the vacant site levy he has received from local...
- Private Rented Accommodation (16 speeches)
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the significant increase in the number of institutional investors in the residential property market and the...
- Pyrite Issues (7 speeches)
71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a consultative forum will be convened for representatives from the Pyrite Resolution Board, the Housing Agency and Deputies...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Home Repossessions (12 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to discuss this matter. It concerns two citizens of Ireland, Patrick Halpin and Anne Keane of Aberdeen Lodge, and their young family....
- National Broadband Plan (7 speeches)
Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for your co-operation in having this important debate on broadband here this evening. It is not the first time I have raised it in the House. The reality is that...
- Garda Operations (4 speeches)
I am pleased that the Minister is here with us. The issue I raise concerns the criteria applied in the deployment of members of the Garda emergency response units or any other specialist entity...
- School Accommodation Provision (6 speeches)
As the Minister will be aware, when the four-year schools capital programme was announced last year, there was to be an eight-classroom primary school established in the...
- EU Regulations: Referral to Joint Committee (6 speeches)
I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the following:(i) the exercise by the State of the option or discretion, provided by Article 4 of Protocol No. 19 on the Schengen Acquis integrated...
- An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2018 : An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 speeches)
Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Is oth liom go bhfuil mé anseo arís ag impí ar Theachtaí...
