Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion regarding an emergency budget. On Tuesday, 28 June 2022, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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The amendment is passed.

Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, there is no doubt that people across the State are calling for emergency intervention.

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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We are in the middle of a vote, Deputy. Please resume your seat. The amendment has just been carried and I am now obliged to put the question-----

Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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On a point of order, I am calling for a vote on the amendment by other than electronic means.

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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The Deputy can come back to that in a minute. I am in the middle of clarifying what has happened. The question now is, "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to."

Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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No. As a teller in the vote on the amendment and given that the public is calling out for an emergency intervention on the cost-of-living crisis, I am asking for a vote on the amendment other than by electronic means.

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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In the interest of clarity, the question is, "That the motion, as amended be agreed to." A vote has been called for other than by electronic means. I am going to allow a roll-call vote on the motion, as amended.

Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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To clarify, when the Leas Cheann-Comhairle announced the result of the vote on the amendment to the motion, I stood up as a teller in that vote and asked for a vote other than by electronic means. There has not been a division called on the substantive motion. We have not gone to that process. As a teller, I ask her to allow a vote other than by electronic means on the amendment.

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Chair has already ruled on this.

Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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That is what happened.

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I ask Deputies to show a little respect. This is complex and I am trying to clarify the situation. The amendment was carried. I stood up to put the question that the motion, as amended, be agreed to. I was interrupted by Deputy Doherty at that point asking that the vote be carried out by other than electronic means. I am conceding to that.

A Deputy:

The vote should be on the motion, as amended.

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I was putting that question when the interruption came, before I got to put it. I was in the process of putting it when the request came for a vote other than by electronic means on the amendment. I am allowing that.

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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Is the motion, as amended, agreed to?

Deputies:

No. Vótáil.

Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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A vote has been called for other than by electronic means. As the difference in the vote was ten or less, the Deputy is allowed to call for a roll-call vote under Standing Order 83(3)(b).