Results 2,361-2,380 of 2,438 for speaker:Caít Keane
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: A number of amendments have been tabled. My question goes back to an amendment tabled by Senator Norris on the previous day on legal representation afforded to people if their funds are dwindling and have dwindled without their notice. I asked about the financial reports. The Minister of State said they would now be given to the director. Obviously the director will hand them on to the...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: That is fine. I think it is better now. It is the performance when they are non-performing.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: It is the reporting, that they are informed.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: The director or whoever, the co-decision maker.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: That is what I am trying to find out. They have not been performed to date.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: Would it all be open there?
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: When they are good, the suggestions are taken on board.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: I would like to be associated with the remarks of Senator Conway.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: My last interruption was not an interruption. It was simply to agree with everything Senator Conway said, rather than repeat it, in deference to the people who have been sitting in the Gallery for hours. I congratulate the Minister of State for a job well done. It has taken the Minister of State several hours and I thank her for the work she has put into this Bill, not only the hours she...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: I join other Senators in wishing everybody a very happy Christmas. Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise orthu go léir, including the staff in the office and all the ushers who help us throughout the year, our Leader, who has led by exemplary example and has made many changes to the Seanad, and the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I welcome Deputy Barry and his daughter, Fiona, to the Seanad....
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: We have another day to go. Today, three Deputies are to appear in the Special Criminal Court offering themselves as bail sureties for a man arrested on IRA charges and in possession of explosives. While I will not mention their names, we all know who they are. Two of them spent an hour in prison wasting Garda time last week. The Garda Síochána is trying to do a job, and the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: The head of the Garda special detective unit will be in court objecting in the strongest possible terms to bail. Is there anything in Standing Orders in this or the other House that ensures people elected to uphold the law shall uphold the law, themselves and by example, and provides for penalties in that regard? I ask for a review of Standing Orders to include something about it.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Order for Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, and his staff to the Chamber.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: I thank the Minister. I call Senator Marc MacSharry who has eight minutes. All the lead speakers have eight minutes while all other Senators have five minutes.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: In accordance with the Order of Business, we must adjourn the debate at 2.15 p.m. and I cannot call the Minister back in again. We have to move to No. 5.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: I am advised that my hands are tied.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: I am advised that unless the Leader comes in and changes it, we cannot do that.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: As the acting Leader, can Senator Mullins propose that the Minister take one minute to respond, and we can conclude?
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: The acting Leader, Senator Michael Mullins, seeks an extension of time of five minutes. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)
Caít Keane: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?