Results 44,481-44,500 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, but there is no use in going on with this nonsense any longer. I again remind the Deputy that we are dealing with the Adoption (Amendment) Bill.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Just wait one second.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: No, the Deputy should hold on.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: If the Deputy wants to go off on a tangent, he may, by all means, make a passing reference to housing as a contributory factor which affects children, but he is not to-----
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: No, the Deputy will not decide.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is an experienced Member of the House and knows full well what the rules are.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: It may well be bizarre, but the Deputy must continue on the Adoption (Amendment) Bill. He may make a passing reference to another matter, as he has already done. As someone who has himself been called to order on this subject on many occasions in the House-----
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: -----I want to tell the Deputy that he is moving outside the remit of the Bill.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I have.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I want to tell the Deputy-----
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: A passing reference is allowed.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: If the Deputy wishes to challenge the Chair, he should take up the matter somewhere else.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: By all means, the Deputy may do so.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: That is quite in order.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I can tell the Deputy all about that. First, if that were the case, it would be included in the Bill, but it is not.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy may cover the issue of housing and many others in the context of the Bill by way of a passing reference, which is allowed. That has always been the tradition of the House. Otherwise, one comprehensive Bill to cover everything would be the order of the day, but it is not that way. Therefore, the Deputy should not continue with this nonsense.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: Then the Deputy is out of order. I am sorry, but I do not want to rule him out of order because I would have to move on to the next speaker.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: If the Deputy persists, I will have to move on to the next speaker. His behaviour is not allowed. Everybody else is entitled to fair play also.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: I remind the Deputy that it is not in order to challenge the Chair; it never has been. Unless he changes Standing Orders – he may, by all means, do so, bearing in mind that they are being revised and considered – he is not in order to challenge the Chair. He may continue on the Adoption (Amendment) Bill if he wishes to speak to it.
- Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy’s consideration of the issue must still be within the scope of the Bill. He knows this as a long-standing Member of the House and I am sure he has learned all about it in the past five years or more. He should, please, refrain from straying outside the scope of the Bill. He has made his passing reference. The Deputy persistently zooms in on the housing issue, which would...