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

Darragh O'Brien: It is.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Costello, and I know the Minister of State, Deputy White, has been listening intently to this discussion and thank him for that. I also thank my constituency colleague, the Minister, Deputy Reilly. We are all agreed that nobody finds this legislation easy to grapple with, but dealing with it is our job. It is our job as legislators to deal with...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: I second the amendment. It is safe to say that the Government is going to give away its biggest stick with which to beat the banks, which would make them do what we all apparently believe they should do. Senator Byrne mentioned the revised code of conduct on mortgage arrears. I have tried every day over the past two weeks to get a response from the Minister for Finance as to why the...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: That is outrageous.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: On a point of order, the Minister claims our outrage is mock and that we do not care, even though we have brought forward Bills to resolve the mortgage crisis.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: That is an outrageous statement for the Minister to make and I ask him to withdraw it.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: I have heard the Minister at it before.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: Those comments do nothing to help the people who are about to have their homes repossessed. The Bill will do that very thing.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: I will not have a charge like that made against my colleagues. It is an outrageous charge. The Minister has been a Member for a long time and should know better.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: We stuck to the Bill.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: No. The Minister should define "sustainable".

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: The Minister is being disingenuous.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: If everyone who congratulates Senator Gilroy on publishing his book buys one, he might be in the top ten next week. I encourage people to do so. On many occasions in the House, I have called on the Minister to recommence Garda recruitment. I congratulate the Minister for Justice and Equality in this regard, although I do not often do so. I am sure that having announced the recommencement...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: Regardless of what one thinks of section 9, specifically with regard to sections 7 and 8, the wording of the Title of the Bill is correct, that is, Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill. Prior to the 2002 referendum, the Title was the Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy) Bill 2001; therefore, this is a minor change in wording. I do not see...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: I have made my point with regard to the 2001 Bill and I take Senator Walsh's point that it did not contain a suicide clause. The Long Title of the Bill is important for those who are seeking a balance in the right to life of the mother and the unborn baby. The Long Title is "Bill entitled an Act to protect human life during pregnancy; to make provision for reviews at the instigation of a...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: I will be brief, having listened to the debate on the monitor. I refer to fatal foetal abnormality and the group of amendments tabled in that regard which I cannot and will not support. I, too, attended those meetings at the kind invitation of Senator Mullen. I met the One Day More group and have had personal experience of families who have made that very tough decision, who have had...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: Will Senator Walsh explain how this amendment fits in with section 7, risk of loss of life from physical illness, or section 8, risk of loss of life from physical illness in emergency? Section 7 states, “It shall be lawful to carry out a medical procedure in respect of a pregnant woman in accordance with this section in the course of which, or as a result of which, an unborn human...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: It is very relevant. We have a fraud of a Taoiseach.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: Senator Norris can speak on Fifth Stage.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Darragh O'Brien: This is a depressing evening. I have no selfish vested interest in the House. I served in the Lower House and I am proud to serve here. Like most of my colleagues, I do my best to serve the State and to do the job we are elected or appointed to do. I make no distinction between one Senator and another, we are all here to do a job. I do not use the word likely but what has happened here...