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- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: How many amendments are ruled out of order?
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: That is fair enough.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Really? I would have argued the toss on that.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: It is probably easier to say which amendments are in order.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Amendments Nos. 4 to 6, inclusive, 11 and 16 are in order. So amendment No. 4 is in order.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: That is most unfortunate.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I move amendment No. 7: In page 54, to delete lines 31 to 40, and in page 55, to delete lines 1 to 5. We will take them as they come. What we seek to do in amendment No. 7 relates to page 54 of the Bill. I have been caught on the hop because I was ready for the other amendments, but I am not ready for this one. Would it be possible for the Minister of State to respond to the...
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Minister of State for responding to the amendment. If tenants of a voluntary housing association or housing body such as the housing section of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul do not remit their water charges, I take it that the Government will deduct it from the housing application grant. In effect, housing bodies are being made responsible for collecting the charge. How...
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: It is €1 per tenant.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: What does that have to do with the amendment?
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: We are on Report Stage. This is all nonsense. The Senators are grandstanding.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Why is the Senator asking Senators Gerard P. Craughwell and David Cullinane that? The Minister of State is here to take Report Stage.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: We are not living in a fascist state. They can make up their own minds.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: The Senator would set up a hierarchy of citizens in our republic.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: It usually does not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: I wish to be associated with the Leader's remarks about our colleague, Senator Jimmy Harte, whom I wish health and happiness in his retirement. We all agree that he is an absolute gentleman. He is an avid sports fan, particularly soccer. He has had a rough couple of years and I hope his health will improve in retirement. We will certainly miss him in the Seanad where he played a very...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: On health matters, I advise the House of a very serious issue in Dublin. As of last Tuesday, 15 September, north County Dublin, an area with a population of 350,000, has been without the National Ambulance Service. There has been no coverage whatsoever since 7 o'clock last Tuesday owing to the fact that a new ambulance base in Lissenhall north of Swords which cost €500,000 has not...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: ----- so I am formally proposing an amendment to the Order of Business that the Attorney General, under Standing Order 56, be invited to attend and be heard in Seanad Éireann.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Hold on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Darragh O'Brien: Senator D'Arcy should call for a debate on the issue.