Seanad debates

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Cathaoirleach i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
• Business of Seanad (1 speech)
  I have received notice from Senator John Whelan that, on the motion for the Adjournment of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter: The need for the Minister for Finance to...
• Order of Business (172 speeches)
  The Order of Business is No. 1, Private Member's business, Privacy Bill 2012 - Second Stage, to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business and conclude not later than 1.45 p.m.; No. 2,...
• Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (32 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, to the House. I express my sympathies to him on the recent burglary that took...
• Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (10 speeches)
  This is a Seanad Bill which has been amended by the Dáil. In accordance with Standing Order 113, it is deemed to have passed its First, Second and Third Stages in the Seanad and is placed on...
• Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (82 speeches)
  I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, to the House. I invite her to proceed with her presentation.
• Small Business: Motion (51 speeches)
  I move: That Seanad Éireann: - notes with grave concern the difficult economic position faced by many of those engaged in small business at this time; - notes the need to make more supports...
• Adjournment Matters (0 speeches)
• Illegal Fuel Laundering (4 speeches)
  I am grateful to the Minister of State for taking the time to come to the House to take this Adjournment debate. Unfortunately, fuel smuggling and fuel smugglers have not gone away you know....
• Immigration Services (5 speeches)
  My Adjournment matter concerns the need for the Minister for Justice and Equality to review Ireland's position on the issuance of visas so as to best serve its economic needs so far as potential...
• Rare Diseases (4 speeches)
  My matter relates to the medical condition epidermolysis bullosa, commonly known as EB. It refers to a group of genetic conditions, the central feature of which is extreme fragility of the skin....
• Redundancy Issues (4 speeches)
  Today I took a short walk from these buildings to Dawson Street. I called into the Game shop to offer support and solidarity to the workers in the shop who are currently engaged in a sit-in. As...