Dáil debates
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Leaders' Questions (78 speeches)
I ask all Members who are raising issues today to keep an eye on the clock.
- Order of Business (94 speeches)
I call the Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, Deputy Joe McHugh, to announce the Order of Business.
- 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 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Clare Daly - the need...
- Consumer Rights (Gift Vouchers) Bill 2017: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to protect consumers by limiting expiry dates on gift vouchers and banning certain fees and charges. Obviously we are heading into...
- Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 to provide clarity with regard to certain applications before the courts. I am pleased...
- Property Services Regulatory Authority (Amendment) (Bidding Transparency) Bill 2017: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to enhance and expedite the transparency of the bidding process during the sale of land other than by auction. This short Bill is...
- Community Energy (Co-ownership) Bill 2017: First Stage (5 speeches)
I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to create a planning condition that enables local communities to invest in a renewable energy project; to create a new prescribed...
- Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2017: Leave to Introduce (1 speech)
I move:That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2017:—Vote 5 — Office...
- Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2017: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That, subject to leave being given to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on 31st December, 2017, the Supplementary Estimates be referred to...
- Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 6th May, 2016, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral...
- European Defence Agency Projects: Referral to Select Committee (1 speech)
I move:That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects – (1) Joint Procurement Arrangement for EU SatCom...
- Standing Orders: Motion (1 speech)
I move:That, in accordance with the recommendation under Standing Order 107(1)(a) of the sub-Committee on Dáil Reform, and with effect from Thursday 23rd November, 2017, Standing Order 71 of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (0 speeches)
- Programme for Government Implementation (35 speeches)
1. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the implementation of measures in the programme for Government. [48128/17]
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (45 speeches)
5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings in the west coast of the USA; the companies he visited; and the issues that were discussed. [47081/17]
- Priority Questions (0 speeches)
- Post Office Network (69 speeches)
37. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the implementation status of the Kerr report and the date by which the strategic plan for the network will be published....
- Waste Disposal Charges (7 speeches)
38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of progress towards proposed changes to household waste collection charges; and if he has considered an...
- National Broadband Plan Implementation (9 speeches)
39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the implementation status of the national broadband plan; and the date by which the contract for the State intervention...
- Mobile Telephony Services (12 speeches)
41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the steps that have been taken to improve mobile telephone coverage in rural parts of the country in the past...
- Other Questions (0 speeches)
- Television Licence Fee (7 speeches)
42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to reform the funding model for public service broadcasting in view of the fact that there is an evasion rate...
- National Broadband Plan Implementation (7 speeches)
43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date on which finalisation of the national broadband plan will be complete in view of the fact that the expenditure...
- Broadband Service Provision (14 speeches)
44. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he expects to be in a position to provide broadband services to those areas outside the proposed or...
- Electric Vehicles (18 speeches)
45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures his department will take to address the lack of availability and poor management of Ireland's electric...
- Business of Dáil (3 speeches)
Before we move on to the Topical Issue debate, I call the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, who has an announcement to make.
- Topical Issue Debate (0 speeches)
- Pensions Legislation (4 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to discuss this important issue. The Minister will agree that what we are dealing with is an injustice - where a defined benefit pension scheme is wound up and, as a...
- Fodder Crisis (18 speeches)
I thank the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, and the Minister of State, Deputy Doyle, for taking this matter. The reason eight Fianna Fáil Deputies have tabled...
- EU Defence Issues (18 speeches)
On Monday, 13 November, 22 EU defence ministers signed the permanent structured cooperation agreement, PESCO. Ireland was not one of the 22 to sign up immediately. However, after the meeting,...
- Legal Metrology (Measuring Instruments) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (1 speech)
The Dáil went into Committee to consider amendments from the Seanad.
- Finance Bill 2017: Order for Report Stage (1 speech)
I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."
- Finance Bill 2017: Report Stage (70 speeches)
Amendment No. 1 is out of order.
- Justice Issues: Statements (104 speeches)
This business, which was proposed by the Business Committee and adopted by the House, is the statement by the Tánaiste on justice issues. The Tánaiste will have ten minutes for an...
- Rural Crime: Motion (43 speeches)
I call Deputy Jim O'Callaghan.
