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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I cannot get my head around the contract and the tender for the service where people arrive for 15 minutes of professional care. With most tenders and contracts, the provider inflates the tender such that it is often bigger than what is required in order that they can gain profit and so on. However, the system we currently have seems to be such that they have almost cut the costs out of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Sometimes it is not casual either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is Ms Duffy suggesting a similar income to that provided for artists?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have exhausted the Chair's patience.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle was not here for the portion of the debate to which I am going to refer. So much of the discussion tonight has not been about the substance of the amendments. So much of it has been about certain accusations being made by members of the Opposition. I suggest they refer those to the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO, to the Garda or to...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I would benefit from the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's advice as to how to ensure my good name is not damaged in the way Deputy Ó Broin did.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I repeat that Deputy Ó Broin's statement on the record reflects it.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Of course.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I am just talking about natural justice here. We have spoken at great length about issues that are not connected.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Ó Broin has taken my good name in the House. I am appealing to other Members in the House. What has happened is unfair.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: Is it in order for me to ask Deputy Ó Broin to withdraw the comments?

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: It was not.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I indicated and the Ceann Comhairle indicated that I would be called.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The comments were made in the Chamber.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The good name of a Member was taken in this Chamber.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is here to protect Members. I feel very unprotected given what has happened in the Chamber.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I have no option but to leave the Chamber. I am really disappointed because it is a very significant matter. Perhaps it was made in the heat of the debate but it was wrong and it was wrong to do it in that way. No other personal comments were made by any other Member of the Chamber and it was wrong to do so.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: I appreciate that.

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: That is an alarming statement: "there is a question mark over Deputy McAuliffe". Does Deputy Ó Broin want to reflect on that?

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: A Cheann Comhairle, the Deputy's phrase was "there is a question mark over Deputy McAuliffe".