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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Animal Welfare (26 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: The Senator is broadening the question.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Services (26 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: An bhfuil an Seanadoír sásta? Is the Senator happy?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Services (26 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: The Senator can ask a brief supplementary.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Services (26 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: The Senator's lack of pleasure with the reply is noted. However, the Minister of State is not the line Minister. If he wants to make a brief comment-----

Seanad: Business of Seanad (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: I have received notice from Senator Marie Moloney that, on the motion for the Adjournment of the House today, she proposes to raise the following matter: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the dedicated LPT helpline is unable to deal with queries such as the reason people are being issued with the wrong payment amounts or from people who are seeking to have the LPT letter reissued...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: Senator Burke should be allowed to speak without interruption.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: Senator Wilson should be allowed to speak without interruption.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: Senator MacSharry has moved an amendment to the Order of Business: "That a debate with the Minister for Health on the administration of the medical card scheme, the overrun of budget and waiting lists be taken today." Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Message from Joint Committee (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: A message has been received from the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine to the effect that it has completed its consideration of the following motion: That Seanad Éireann approve the following order in draft:Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2013, a copy of which order in draft was laid before Seanad Éireann on 12 November 2013.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: We will now hear expressions of sympathy on the death earlier this year of the former Senator Bernard McGlinchey.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: You are wearing well, Senator.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: I also want to be associated with the tributes to the late Bernard McGlinchey who, as has already been said, served in this House from 1961 to 1982, having been elected to both the Industrial and Commercial Panel and the Administrative Panel, and a Taoiseach's nominee on two occasions. I would not have known the late Senator McGlinchey as well as Senators MacSharry, Ó Domhnaill, Ó...

Seanad: Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Sean Sherlock, to take Report Stage of the Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013. Senators should note that the amendments in the name of Senator Sean D. Barrett on the numbered list of amendments should also be in the names of Senators Feargal Quinn and David Norris. Before we commence, I remind Members that a Senator may speak only once on...

Seanad: Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: Amendments Nos. 2 and 7 form a composite proposal and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Fixed Penalty Notice) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: I take great pleasure in seconding Senator Ó Domhnaill's Bill during Private Members' time. It is an old issue with me and I could write a thesis on the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006. Some of the effects and implementation of that Bill has halted me since that time, although on Committee Stage we managed to have 113 amendments. Some of those were technical or...

Seanad: Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Fixed Penalty Notice) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: The main message for the Minister tonight is that we are putting this Bill forward in good faith and are hoping to persuade him that a review of the 2006 Act is necessary. Such a review is overdue and I look forward to the Minister's response in that regard. There are serious problems facing the fishing industry which are festering and growing. They must be addressed at some stage. Now is...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (28 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: I have received notice from Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh that, on the motion for the Adjournment of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter: Fiafrú den Aire Talmhaíochta, Bia agus Mara an bhfuil sé i gceist aige gníomhú chun an stádas saor ón ngalar Ostreid herpes virus (OsHV1-uvar), i gCuan Baile na Cille i dtuaisceart Chonamara, a...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: By way of clarification, the Committee on Procedure and Privileges of the Seanad has not accepted the decision of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges of the Dáil. Consequently, the view was that Seanad Members should not be treated in the same way, if the committee on Procedure and Privileges of the Dáil took a decision affecting its Members. That clarification might by...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)

Denis O'Donovan: The matter is still sub judice, but I am informing the Senator and the House of the deliberations of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges of the Seanad.