Results 201-220 of 459 for speaker:Phil Prendergast
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: Section 16 merely gives a right to the father to apply to be consulted on adoption. It is extraordinarily insulting and offensive to put in legislation that a father has only a right to be consulted about his own child being permanently removed from him. It is almost unbelievable that this minimal level of protection is proposed in law in 2009. I would like to see fathers protected in this...
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 22: In page 24, line 15, after "consideration" to insert the following: ", and it shall be presumed unless the contrary is shown that the welfare of the child is best promoted in the society of either or both of the child's natural parents".
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: As I stated earlier the test arose from the Supreme Court decision in the case of N v. the HSE. The principle set out in the amendment is pro-family, which leaves ample room for the rights of the child to be protected where the presumption is rebutted.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 26: In page 26, line 4, after "mother" to insert the following: ", father (if named on the child's birth certificate),".
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 39: In page 31, line 4, after "them" to insert the following: "(or either of them, if a failure by one only of the married couple to comply with this section would not seriously threaten the welfare of the child)". As for amendment No. 39, the qualification on who is suitable to adopt places an unreasonable requirement on the applicants, stressing "each" instead of...
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I move amendment No. 41: In page 31, line 28, after "section 37(1)," to insert the following: "or to an accredited committee or body on behalf of the Executive". We had a comprehensive discussion on this. The Bill appears to state that all applications for assessment must be made to the HSE, which currently manages over 90% of assessments and has presided over the growth of waiting times to...
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.
- Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)
Phil Prendergast: I second the amendment. Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.