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Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: I ask the Senator to sit and listen quietly. The Minister will be invited to respond. You may resume, Senator Butler, but you are being provocative.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Senator Butler to continue, without interruption.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Senator Doherty is being most unfair. He has interrupted constantly despite not being interrupted when he spoke. Senator Buttimer cannot expect other Senators to refrain from interrupting him given that he constantly interrupts other speakers. I ask Senators to show courtesy and allow Senator Butler to continue without interruption. The Minister will respond to all the contributions.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: I ask the Senator to speak to the section before the House.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Good.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Is the Senator proposing to read the entirety of the e-mails?

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: That is okay, as long as it is relevant.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Did the Senator read them into the record on the Order of Business?

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: They are different.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: I draw the Senator's attention to the fact that he has been speaking for eight minutes. Two other speakers are offering. Senators may wish the Minister to reply before this debate adjourns at 5 p.m. I hope Members are conscious of what needs to be done if they would like the Minister to reply before 5 p.m.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Absolutely not. I am merely making a point.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Of course she will return. It might be better for her to respond to the comments on this section of the Bill while they are fresh in her mind. I am merely putting it out there.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Of course it is in order. The Senator has every entitlement to continue at that stage.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: I am merely trying to save time. Members have spoken on this section for an hour. I am not saying they are not perfectly entitled to do so. I am reminding the Senator that his colleagues might like the Minister to reply to their queries before we adjourn at 5 p.m. I am giving the Senator that option.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: I ask the Senator to continue his remarks on section 7.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Okay. I am not cutting the Senator off.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: I am not.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Please speak on the section.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: Senator Buttimer should make his contribution and allow me to make mine.

Seanad: Budget 2010: Motion (16 Dec 2009)

Fiona O'Malley: It makes me extremely cross to come in here time after time to listen to Fine Gael, particularly but not exclusively, lamenting every little cut or everything that has happened. In both of the debates we have had today, it has claimed that it would have found much more. Senator Buttimer was waving a document and presenting it all to us. When I asked him for it, he gave me a little quarter...