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- Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Sometimes it is very difficult to listen to what is being said but I ask colleagues to please do so.
- Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Could Senator Kieran O'Donnell please not interrupt?
- Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: We look forward to Senator Rose Conway-Walsh's contribution. Will she, please, allow Senator Gerry Horkan to continue, without interruption?
- Seanad: Budget 2019: Statements (9 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Senator Conway-Wash, without interruption.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: This is a Seanad Bill which has been amended by the Dáil. In accordance with Standing Order 148, it is deemed to have passed its First, Second and Third Stages in the Seanad and placed on the Order Paper for Report Stage. On the question, "That the Bill be received for final consideration," the Minister may explain the purpose of the amendments made by the Dáil. This is looked...
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: That is a matter for group 2.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Senator Norris will appreciate that I indicated that the amendments were grouped by the Cathaoirleach and that information has been circulated to Members. We are discussing group 1 at the moment, which concerns health related data, so there is fairly limited scope.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: I have allowed speakers to digress slightly but I will tighten up in a moment when we come to the other groups.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: I thank Senator Noone.That was a point of clarification.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: We will deal now with amendments in group 2, which are amendments Nos. 2, 3, 6, and 7, relating to labelling.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Does the Minister wish to comment?
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: The Minister has given an answer.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Sorry, colleagues, please.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: I thank colleagues for their assistance and advice on whether something is relevant, but if they will please listen to me, we will get through this a lot more quickly. I thank the Members. We are moving now to group 3, which is amendment No. 5, which concerns the size of labelling, so we might be clear on this point.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: As the Minister does not wish to add anything at this point, we will move on to the subject matter of amendments in group 4, amendments No. 4 and Nos. 8 to 14, inclusive. These are technical amendments relating to publications and result from the insertion of the cancer warnings.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: I will allow Senators a number of seconds to make a brief comment but these are not to be Second Stage speeches. I will allow the Minister in if he wishes at the end. Senator Swanick is first.
- Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (10 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Just before I call on the Minister to wrap up, I want to take the opportunity to welcome our former colleague, Jillian van Turnhout, to the House. She is very welcome. I understand that she is only taking a short respite. I hope to see her back on official duty, not too soon, but certainly in the next year or two. I now call the Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Senator Lawlor has ambitions to be a leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Like my colleague, Senator Conway-Walsh, I attended yesterday evening the presentation in the audiovisual room on autism assistance dogs, which was arranged by our colleague, Deputy Cahill. Like other colleagues from this House and the Lower House who attended, I was very impressed by the positive impact these dogs have not only on young people in improving the way they live their lives but...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2018)
Diarmuid Wilson: Has the Leader ever heard of Dickie Rock?