Seanad debates
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Motion for Earlier Signature
4:00 pm
Pat Moylan (Fianna Fail)
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On No. 4, I call the Leader to move the motion for earlier signature.
Rónán Mullen (Independent)
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On a point of order, could the Leader tell the House why we have had to face a guillotine again today?
Donie Cassidy (Fianna Fail)
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I move:
That, pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to her.".
The Seanad Divided:
For the motion: 28 (Dan Boyle, Martin Brady, Larry Butler, Ivor Callely, James Carroll, John Carty, Donie Cassidy, Maria Corrigan, Mark Daly, Mark Dearey, John Ellis, Geraldine Feeney, Camillus Glynn, John Gerard Hanafin, Cecilia Keaveney, Terry Leyden, Marc MacSharry, Lisa McDonald, Niall Ó Brolcháin, Brian Ó Domhnaill, Labhrás Ó Murchú, Francis O'Brien, Denis O'Donovan, Fiona O'Malley, Ned O'Sullivan, Ann Ormonde, Mary White, Diarmuid Wilson)
Against the motion: 16 (Paul Bradford, Paddy Burke, Jerry Buttimer, Ciarán Cannon, Paul Coghlan, Maurice Cummins, Paschal Donohoe, Frances Fitzgerald, Fidelma Healy Eames, Michael McCarthy, Nicky McFadden, Rónán Mullen, Joe O'Toole, John Paul Phelan, Shane Ross, Brendan Ryan)
Tellers: Tá, Senators Niall Ó Brolcháin and Diarmuid Wilson; Níl, Senators Paschal Donohoe and Joe O'Toole.
Question declared carried
Pat Moylan (Fianna Fail)
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I remind Members that points of order cannot be raised once the Chair has begun to put the question.