Dáil debates

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

• Prelude (0 speeches)
  Chuaigh an Acting Chairman (Deputy Bernard J. Durkan) i gceannas ar 2.00 p.m.
• Business of Dáil (2 speeches)
  It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that oral questions to the Taoiseach shall not be taken today and Leaders' Questions shall be followed by the Order of Business.
• Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (0 speeches)
  • Mortgage Interest Rates (7 speeches)
    1. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact on mortgage holders, tracker and standard variable rate customers and on the economy generally of the possibility that interest rates...
  • Mortgage Resolution Processes (7 speeches)
    2. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the pace of resolutions for cases of mortgages in arrears by banks, especially the number of permanent solutions being implemented; and...
  • Housing Issues (18 speeches)
    3. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the deepening housing shortage, rapidly rising rents and property prices and the National Assets Management Agencies plans for large-scale...
  • Credit Unions Restructuring (7 speeches)
    4. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the assessment of the financial health of the credit union sector and on the number and extent of regulatory interventions and...
  • Wage-setting Mechanisms (9 speeches)
    5. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of recent calls by trade unions and others for wage increases if he will consider a new wage policy to stimulate economic growth; and if he will...
• Other Questions (1 speech)
  Question No. 6 will not be taken as Deputy Dara Calleary is not present.
  • Pensions Legislation (10 speeches)
    7. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons the option of early encashment of AVCs has resulted in significantly less yield than expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16172/14]
  • Mortgage Arrears Proposals (7 speeches)
    8. To ask the Minister for Finance if in the aftermath of reports that AIB are giving debt write downs to distressed mortgage holders, the actions he will take to require other banks to follow...
  • IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (14 speeches)
    10. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he does not propose extending the consumer protection and recourse to the Financial Ombudsman to the mortgage holders who are at present with Irish...
• 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 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Jim Daly - the need to...
• Leaders' Questions (46 speeches)
  Rehab Group has appointed the independent management consultant Dr. Eddie Molloy to advise on strategy, rebuild morale within the organisation and repair a damaged reputation, according to its...
• Order of Business (51 speeches)
  It is proposed to take No. 9, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in an EDA Category B project on counter improvised explosive device manual...
• Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (5 speeches)
  I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 and to provide for related matters.The Bill proposes to increase the...
• European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (1 speech)
  I move:That Dáil Éireann approves Ireland’s participation in an EDA category B project on counter improvised explosive devices manual neutralisation techniques pursuant to...
• Service by the Defence Forces with the United Nations: Motion (1 speech)
  I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the report by the Minister for Defence regarding service by the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2013, copies of which were laid before...
• Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
  • Health Services Provision (4 speeches)
    I wish to discuss a case with which the Minister of State, Deputy White, might be familiar, that of Mrs. Eimear Lynch-Rowe who is based in Gorey, County Wexford. Eimear suffers from a very...
  • Home Care Packages (13 speeches)
    I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me to raise the very distressing and sad case on behalf of the Garvey family in Dundalk, County Louth. David Garvey is a young man, he is only 33...
• Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Order for Second Stage (1 speech)
  Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Coimisiún na hÉireann um Chearta an Duine agus Comhionannasor, in English language, the Irish Human Rights...
• Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage (14 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to present this Bill to the House. It is now 15 years since the Equality Authority was established and 14 years since the...
• Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 speeches)
  I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This Bill is an attempt to get the balance right with regard to planning and wind turbines. Every public representative from the midlands is...