Dáil debates

Thursday, 16 June 2011

  • Credit Availability (2 speeches)
    The Minister for Finance and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation need to act urgently because the banks in this State are actually destroying viable businesses. The Government and...
  • Community Employment Schemes (2 speeches)
    I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this matter. The recently announced jobs initiative is extremely welcome, particularly for anyone who obtains an internship or a place on a...
  • Bloomsday Public Holiday (6 speeches)
    Today is Bloomsday, 16 June. It is the annual occasion when Ireland celebrates its giant of Irish literature, James Joyce. The celebration was begun in the 1950s by a number of Joycean scholars...
  • Accident and Emergency Services (7 speeches)
    Of course Joyce was a socialist who left the country because he felt those who were going to inherit the Irish revolution would replace one form of subservience with another. The IMF-EU deal...