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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that Members not limit themselves to ten minutes each with regard to the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I suggest a limit of 20 minutes.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I wish to make one further point because the issue has cropped up. What has happened and what happens in Northern Ireland over the period around 12 July is horrific but it is nothing like what happened during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. When one looks back and sees the constraints the Nationalist people have placed on themselves, the trouble is all coming from one side alone. Those...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: Yes.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: Like all Members, I find this issue very difficult to handle. I am the fortunate father of five children and the fortunate grandfather of 16 children. I look at this from the point of view of born and unborn children rather than from the other point of view. I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Bill. Like others, I am concerned that its wording is so open to...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I assume someone else will second it. Is it possible for me to move the amendment now and for her to second it?

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I have just received permission. On that basis, I will move the amendment on the assumption that she will second it. If I am not allowed to do that, she will have to get somebody else to second it when she moves it. The amendment recognises the inadequacy of the Government's argument that a judgment applied to the particular circumstances of the X case should be applied generally regardless...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: Yes, her signature is on this note.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: She plans to second it when her turn comes.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: She plans to speak. I gather she is No. 20 or No. 24. Senator Mary Ann O'Brien is also a seconder.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after ''That'' and substitute the following: "'Seanad Éireann declines to give the Bill a second reading for the following reasons: (1) The X Case judgment, correctly interpreted, does not create a binding precedent with respect to the application of the criterion for a lawful termination of pregnancy (i.e. the test of 'real and substantial...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Tairiscint chun Bille a chur faoi Athchúrsa - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Motion to Recommit (17 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I move: That Seanad Éireann, pursuant to Standing Order 126 of the Standing Orders Relative to Public Business, directs that the Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013 in whole be recommitted to a Committee of the whole House.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Tairiscint chun Bille a chur faoi Athchúrsa - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Motion to Recommit (17 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me to move this motion. It is a very modest motion but a very important one. I believe that we have not had enough discussion on this Bill. It was guillotined in the Dáil and we have not had a sufficient opportunity to debate it here. The debate we have had has been very good and the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I support Senator Keane’s reference to nutrition and healthy eating. We had a very interesting debate and passed Second Stage of the Food Provenance Bill. This is something the Government can actually do. The Bill has passed Second Stage. It can be created and passed and it will give all citizens an opportunity to know where their food comes from and what is in it. We also had a...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (23 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: While I have not spoken during the Report Stage debate on this Bill before now, it feels like I have spoken in this House in the presence of the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, on many occasions recently. He is practically living here at this stage. It is quite shameful that the amendment we are debating - No. 28 - is the only one of the 78 amendments that has been accepted for...

Seanad: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (23 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I thank the Minister of State for his explanation. I did not speak during tonight's debate as it is 1,168 days since the Bill commenced and, as we have spoken a lot about abolition or reform of the Seanad today, I felt that we should not speak any longer on the Bill than needed. I wish to touch on some of the points that the Minister of State made. He said that the Bill came about due to a...

Seanad: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (23 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: The House gives an opportunity to Independent Members to introduce legislation on their own. The Government is prepared to accept good legislation and to help those proposing it to forge really good legislation that will help the community. I believe, as Senator Norris has already stated, that if we had been able to get this Bill enacted ten years ago, a number of jobs would have been...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: There was some criticism of the Meath East by-election in the opening hours of the polls on that occasion.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: There was criticism. I want to inquire of the Leader about the likely hours the polls will be open for the referendum on the abolition of the Seanad. We should make sure that a healthy vote takes place and that whatever are the correct hours of opening that criticism will not be levelled at the referendum for abolition of the Seanad, as happened during the Meath East by-election. Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jul 2013)

Feargal Quinn: I want to thank the staff of the House for their work in the past year and wish them well for the summer. I include in that all the other helpers, including those in the Library and elsewhere. It has been a tough session. I think we deserve a break but I hope we will come back invigorated, enthusiastic and ready to fight for the survival of this House. I refer not just to the retention of...