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Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Deenihan, to the House. I am somewhat puzzled about how and why the Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, is not present. I mean no disrespect towards the Minister of State, for whom I have considerable regard. Anyway, I have some idea of why the Minister of State responsible is not here today: it is probably because he...

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: I am not aware of many Bills that completed Second Stage and were not subsequently amended on Committee and Report Stages. This Bill makes a start and allowing it to proceed to the next Stage would send out a message to more than 4,500 people in direct provision that the State is doing something and there may be a pathway forward. The Government has not even set a clear timeframe for...

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: Where is he?

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: How would Senator Ó Clochartaigh get a Bill through?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: I believe the Minister for Health is scheduled to come into the House on 4 November next and I ask that he pays particular attention to the issue of medical cards for the over-70s and discretionary medical cards. I wish to bring to the attention of the House that between September 2013 and September 2014, 71,251 medical cards were removed. Of these, over 17,543 were over-70s medical cards....

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: We know why they are not here.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: I know why they are not here this morning.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: It is also a long-standing practice that people would respect the arms and laws of the State. I want to know - perhaps the Leader through the Taoiseach can assist on this - how many paedophiles and rapists they banished to towns and villages all over the Republic of Ireland. How many did they banish? Who are these people? Will they furnish a list of these people to the authorities here?...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: Was he involved in a Sinn Féin court?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: Senator Cullinane has information and his party has information.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: It is not false outrage. I ask Senator Cullinane to withdraw that remark.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: It is not false outrage. How dare he say that?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: Well, the Senator should.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: He said he did not know whether he believed Maíria Cahill.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: As a Dub, I would also like to extend my welcome to Mr. Boylan. He has ruined many Septembers for me over the years, and many Junes, too. Tomorrow the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, will come to the House to discuss the situation with Irish Water, so I do not propose to go into it in great detail today. However, people will note that there...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: I am asking the Leader to give an indication of when the Social Welfare Bill will come to the House. Will it be this month? Could he give a commitment that it will not be required to pass all Stages in the one day and that, as has previously been done, this House will be allowed the time to debate it on each Stage?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: If it stacks up.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Leader.

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister for Health. I have not yet had the opportunity to congratulate him on his appointment. I hope he has more fortune than his predecessor, a colleague of ours in the county of Fingal. I concur completely with Senator Gilroy in respect of the matters he raised with regard to mental health services. The House will engage in a debate on that matter shortly. I do not have...