Seanad debates

Thursday, 2 May 2013

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Cathaoirleach i gceannas ar 10:30:00
• Business of Seanad (1 speech)
  I have received notice from Senator Terry Brennan that, on the motion for the Adjournment of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter: To ask the Minister for Finance to review...
• Order of Business (114 speeches)
  The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re: arrangements for the address to the House by the EU Commissioner, Ms Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, on 8 May 2013, to be taken at the conclusion of the...
• Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2013: First Stage (4 speeches)
  I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled the Corporate Manslaughter Bill to create the indictable offence of corporate manslaughter by an undertaking, to create the indictable...
• Address to Seanad Éireann: Motion (1 speech)
  I move: That Seanad Éireann agrees with the recommendation of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges that, in accordance with the provisions for the address to Seanad Éireann by...
• Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Marian Harkin, MEP (26 speeches)
  I welcome Ms Marian Harkin, MEP, to the Seanad. It is her first time here. She was a Member of the Dáil for a number of years. She is my MEP in the North West constituency. We wish her...
• Adjournment Matters (0 speeches)
  • HSE Properties (5 speeches)
    I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brian Hayes, to the House. I call on Senator Colm Burke.
  • Carbon Tax Implementation (12 speeches)
    Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire go dtí an Seanad. This matter is local to County Louth. Standard Brands of Kilsaran, Castlebellingham, County Louth, has been manufacturing firelighters...
  • Departmental Staff Redeployment (5 speeches)
    Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. This matter has arisen out of concerns in a small town of 800 to 900 people, with 70 permanent and full-time Government jobs which, hopefully, will be there...