Robinson, MaryWednesday, 25 May 1983 |
Seanad Eireann Debate
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Order of Business.
My question fits in with the question asked by Senator Lanigan about the reports on developments in the Communities. I have asked, since the new Seanad was reconstituted and I will ask again, when th...
Companies (Amendment) Bill, 1982 [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages.
As the Minister indicated, substantially these are drafting amendments which have been effected by the Dáil. My purpose in rising is to ask the Minister if he could inform the House when the order wi...
Is there any reason why there should be any delay at all?
An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú ar an mBunreacht, 1982: An Tuarascáil. Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1982: Report Stage.
Like the proposer of this amendment, Senator McGuinness, I spoke at some length on Second Stage in opposition to a Bill to amend the Constitution on this particular issue, but like her I feel that ev...
I feel I must be entitled to ask whether the Minister is going to do what Ministers normally do and what the other Minister of State did on the Companies Bill. He was prepared and briefed to explain ...
It is certainly a matter for the Minister but it is also a matter for this House. Will we have a proper Report Stage in which Members of this House will ask difficult and searching questions about th...
It seems to be the only course open to me but, to a considerable extent, it changes the nature of the Report Stage on this Bill. It is utterly different from any other Bill. In my 13 years experienc...
An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú ar an mBunreacht, 1982: An Tuarascáil (Atógáil). Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1982: Report Stage (Resumed).
I might continue in the context of a discussion on the right to life. Like the Senator who sought to raise the matter of Nicky Kelly, many of us are concerned about the aspects of that life and about...
I appreciate that and the Chair has a difficult task but in the context of a discussion on the right to life the right to that individual life does not go unnoted.
I had been referring to the substantial natural wastage that occurs at the very early stage of the reproductive cycle and the figure I had commenced with in this quotation from the briefing drawn up b...
What I have just been saying, with all respect to the direction which you are giving from the Chair, is precisely on the point of this amendment but I will make that clearer if you so wish. The probl...
No, this exercise is precisely related to the amendment, with respect a Leas-Chathaoirligh. Senator McGuinness in this amendment is being precise in a way which would remove this charge of a sectaria...
Is there not to be a contribution from the Minister of State?
I missed it on the monitor. Cuireadh an Cheist: “Go ndéanfar an leasú”. Question put: “That the amendment be made”. Rinne and Seanad vótáil: Tá, 10; Níl, 18. The Seanad divided: Tá, 10; Níl, 18. Tá
That is the authoritative text.
Hear, hear.
I paused to allow some official spokesman from the Fianna Fáil group in the Seanad to respond not only to the questions we mere Seantors have been putting but also to the very personal questions put b...
I explained the circumstances of my absence.
Yes, but your contribution to the debate is not as authoritative if, as a result of your contribution, you do not do something about it. For example, how do I view the present worry of the Minister f...
Business of Seanad.
We have to take the Fifth Stage of this Bill once the amendments are dealt with and then we have a Referendum Bill and that could lake some very considerable time.
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