Results 7,921-7,940 of 13,254 for speaker:Seán Sherlock
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: There is no other committee in these Houses that would try to close off debate at this point on Committee Stage.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: In that case, will the Chairman please allow me to make my point?
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: I am not trying to be obstreperous. I merely wish to make a point in respect of the fact that our amendments were ruled out of order. The Minister has declared that she is sympathetic to the views and she has also said, if I understood her correctly, that there are other reasons they have been disallowed. I know that the Minister will get to that.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: However, it still does not address the fact that our amendments were ruled out of order at the 11th hour last night-----
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: I ask the Chairman to please allow me to finish.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Time has been allocated for this debate.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: If the Chairman keeps interrupting me-----
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: I am not being pedantic.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: This is very important-----
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: We have not had this row before.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: This is not a row. I merely wish to ask why we are being told that our amendments are out of order and that there was advice to that effect but we have not physically received the advice. I have not been able to read the advice which the Chairman said he would make available to us-----
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Quite frankly, we need that advice if we are to determine how to proceed on Committee Stage. I do not think the Chairman understands this.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: The Chairman has made his point.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: I would like to hear the Minister's response to the amendment and I reserve the right to revisit it on report Stage. I anticipate that the Minister may not be in favour of the amendment.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: I accept that.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: I am prepared to withdraw the amendment but I reserve the right to revisit the matter on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 8: In page 8, to delete lines 6 to 11 and substitute the following: “(a) furnish to the court reports that— (i) convey to the court any views expressed by the child in relation to the matters to which the proceedings relate, and (ii) contain the recommendations of the guardian ad litem regarding what is in the best interests of the child and the...
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 9: In page 8, lines 32 and 33, to delete “to that party” and substitute “that party shall be provided with a reasonable opportunity to read the report,”.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: To quote the Minister, we will withdraw and reflect on the amendment.
- Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: The Minister again makes the point that the Bill needs to be read as a whole. Looking at the section 35 provisions from an Opposition point of view, there can be gaps geographically in the system at District Court level. In some parts of the country there is quite a robust service. Again, to quote the Minister, in the absence of a family court system where we are relying on the District...