Order amendments and debate timings
The Leader refuses to impose an earlier guillotine but agrees to conclude Seanad abolition Committee Stage at 6 p.m.; several proposed debates are formally pressed, with one amendment falling for lack of a seconder.
I asked the Leader about setting time for Committee Stage.
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I am giving plenty of time and we will see. I have no intention of putting a time on it. We will see how the debate progresses.
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Senator Darragh O'Brien moved an amendment to the Order of Business, "That a one hour debate with the Minister for Finance on the new code of conduct for mortgage arrears be taken today." Is the amendment being pressed?
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Senator O'Donovan has moved an amendment to the Order of Business, "That a debate on the withdrawal of the bus service to Garretstown, the Old Head of Kinsale and Ballinspittle in County Cork be taken today." Is the amendment being pressed?
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Senator Ó Clochartaigh has moved an amendment to the Order of Business, "That a debate on the entitlement of medical card holders to cancer treatment be taken today." Is the amendment being pressed?
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Senator Daly has moved an amendment to the Order of Business, "That a debate on SI 325 be taken today." The amendment was not seconded so it falls.
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Senator Mooney did genuinely second the amendment.
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I propose that Committee Stage of the Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill will conclude at 6 p.m., if not previously concluded.