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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: I must have given it to her.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: I better start with the final contribution in respect of abortion, repeal of the eighth amendment and lack of balance in the abortion debate on the part of the national broadcaster. I am ashamed at the exchanges I have listened to from all sides. The exchanges have not been respectful or fitting for this House. If legislators such as ourselves behave in such a manner, I am reluctant to...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: Senators Bacik and Mooney raised the Garda inspectorate report, which should be debated by the House. The Minister for Justice and Equality intends to send the report to Mr. Ray Magee and other parties, including the Garda representative organisations, first in order that they can review the issues raised. She also intends referring the report to the Cabinet Committee on Justice Reform....

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: Perhaps the portraits were so popular that they sold out.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: We are certainly not going to involve ourselves in the Civil War here. There is no question about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: I agree with Senator Wilson. Senator Conway complimented the Garda Síochána on their efforts to inform the people of their activities and giving reassurance by their presence. Senator Noone mentioned a medical card issue, a matter which Senator Healy Eames has raised, that people over the age of 85 should automatically have a full medical card. I would agree to the suggestion to...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: I know that case would be an exception to the rule. I have dealt with all of the other matters raised.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: I hope that the Senator has more Members here now than when he called a vote yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator called for a debate on flooding but nobody turned up yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator might have been here but a lot of his colleagues were not.

Seanad: Sitting Arrangements: Motion (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Standing Orders relative to Public Business: (1) The Seanad shall meet at 10 a.m. on Friday, 11thDecember, 2015 and the following arrangements shall apply: (a)Standing Orders 29 and 30 shall stand suspended; (b)there shall be no Order of Business; (c)the business to be taken shall be confined to the items set out in the Schedule to this...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2015: Referral to Joint Committee (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: I move:That the proposal that Seanad Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft:Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2015,copies of which were laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann on 9th December, 2015 be referred to the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht, in accordance with Standing Order 70A(3)(j), which, not later than 17th...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: Tomorrow.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: Several years ago, I introduced a Private Members' Bill in this House proposing that LAMA, the Local Authority Members Association, would have nominating rights to the Seanad. The previous Government voted against that Private Members' Bill. While I welcome the Bill, I welcome the amendments proposed by the Government more. Those proposals give rights to the Local Authority Members...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator is not addressing any of the amendments before us. It is a Second Stage speech.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: Island communities are not being disenfranchised.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: The Order of Business is No. 1, Finance Bill 2015 - Committee Stage, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and adjourned not later than 2.55 p.m. if not previously concluded; No. 2, Gradam an Uachtaráin Bill 2015 - Second Stage, to be taken at 3 p.m., with the time allocated for the debate not to exceed two hours; and No. 3, Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 - Committee Stage, to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: The Senator is wrong.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: Fianna Fáil was going to drain the Shannon 100 years ago.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Maurice Cummins: I cannot respond because I cannot hear what is going on.