Dáil debates

Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members]

 

The following motion was moved by Deputy Noel Grealish on Wednesday, 14 February 2024:

Debate resumed on amendment No. 1:

- Minister of State at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy Anne Rabbitte.

6:20 pm

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I must now deal with the deferred division on the ministerial amendment to the motion regarding Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. Today, on the question, "That the amendment be made", a division was claimed and that division must be taken now.

The Dáil divided by electronic means.

6:30 pm

Photo of Matt ShanahanMatt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent)
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Under Standing Order 83(3)(b) I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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As the gap was fewer than ten that is in order and can proceed.

Amendment again put:

The Dáil divided: Tá, 73; Níl, 64; Staon, 0.


Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Verona Murphy and Matt Shanahan.

Colm Brophy, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Jack Chambers, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Barry Cowen, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Frank Feighan, Joe Flaherty, Seán Fleming, Norma Foley, Brendan Griffin, Seán Haughey, Martin Heydon, Emer Higgins, Heather Humphreys, Paul Kehoe, John Lahart, James Lawless, Brian Leddin, Josepha Madigan, Catherine Martin, Micheál Martin, Steven Matthews, Paul McAuliffe, Charlie McConalogue, Helen McEntee, Michael McGrath, John McGuinness, Joe McHugh, Aindrias Moynihan, Michael Moynihan, Jennifer Murnane O'Connor, Hildegarde Naughton, Malcolm Noonan, Darragh O'Brien, Jim O'Callaghan, James O'Connor, Willie O'Dea, Kieran O'Donnell, Fergus O'Dowd, Roderic O'Gorman, Christopher O'Sullivan, Pádraig O'Sullivan, Marc Ó Cathasaigh, Éamon Ó Cuív, John Paul Phelan, Anne Rabbitte, Neale Richmond, Michael Ring, Brendan Smith, Niamh Smyth, Ossian Smyth, David Stanton, Robert Troy, Leo Varadkar.

Níl

Chris Andrews, Ivana Bacik, Mick Barry, Cathal Berry, Richard Boyd Barrett, John Brady, Martin Browne, Pat Buckley, Holly Cairns, Seán Canney, Matt Carthy, Sorca Clarke, Joan Collins, Michael Collins, Rose Conway-Walsh, Réada Cronin, Seán Crowe, David Cullinane, Pa Daly, Pearse Doherty, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Mairead Farrell, Peter Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Funchion, Gary Gannon, Thomas Gould, Noel Grealish, Johnny Guirke, Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Healy-Rae, Brendan Howlin, Gino Kenny, Martin Kenny, Claire Kerrane, Michael Lowry, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Michael McNamara, Denise Mitchell, Imelda Munster, Catherine Murphy, Paul Murphy, Verona Murphy, Johnny Mythen, Gerald Nash, Carol Nolan, Cian O'Callaghan, Richard O'Donoghue, Louise O'Reilly, Darren O'Rourke, Eoin Ó Broin, Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, Ruairi Ó Murchú, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, Maurice Quinlivan, Patricia Ryan, Matt Shanahan, Seán Sherlock, Róisín Shortall, Duncan Smith, Brian Stanley, Peadar Tóibín, Pauline Tully, Mark Ward.

Amendment declared carried.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 8.35 p.m. go dtí 9 a.m., Déardaoin, an 15 Feabhra 2024.

The Dáil adjourned at at 8.35 p.m. until 9 a.m. on Thursday, 15 February 2024.