Seanad debates

Wednesday, 19 October 2005

  • Prelude (0 speeches)
    Chuaigh an Leas-Chathaoirleach i gceannas ar 2.30 p.m.
  • Business of Seanad. (3 speeches)
    I have notice from Senator Finucane that, on the motion for the Adjournment of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter: The need for the Minister for Education and Science to...
  • Order of Business. (87 speeches)
    The Order of Business is No. 1, statements on the report of the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resource on salmon drift netting and angling, to be taken on the conclusion...
  • Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements. (48 speeches)
    As a consequence of the delay arising from the robust nature of the debate during the Order of Business, particularly in respect of recent events at Monaghan General Hospital, there may be...
  • Home Help Service: Motion. (94 speeches)
    I move: "That Seanad Éireann, conscious of the valuable and mainly unrecognised work carried out by home helps, calls on the Minister for Health and Children to: —regulate their contracts of...
  • Adjournment Matters. (0 speeches)
  • Schools Building Projects. (2 speeches)
    I raised the matter of the urgent necessity for a new primary school in Kilfinane, County Limerick, previously in the House and also when I was a Member of the Dáil. There was great excitement...
  • Plant Diseases. (6 speeches)
    I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Environment and Local Government, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. I look forward to learning more from him than I can impart on this subject....
  • Fisheries Protection. (7 speeches)
    I thank the Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, for coming to the House this evening. I am aware the Minister was under pressure to get here and I appreciate his attendance. This matter concerns the...