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Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Kelleher will have a chance to respond to the Minister of State.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Does the Minister of State have a further point of clarification? He is entitled to do make one.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: On Report Stage Senators can only speak once but I am advised there is no restriction on a Minister.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I hate to interrupt but I think the Minister of State has gone beyond speaking to the amendment. That information might be more appropriate when we come to the Final Stage of the Bill. We are dealing with an amendment now.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I have been advised that I must deal with the amendment. I am sorry about that.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Order. We are dealing with an amendment at this point.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: The Minister of State will have an opportunity to comment further, as will others briefly, when we come to the next Stage of the Bill. We are dealing with an amendment and Senator Kelleher has responded so I must ask her if she is pressing the amendment.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Kelleher omitted to vote, so her vote has been added.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: When is it proposed to take Final Stage?

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Ruane omitted to vote, so her vote has been added.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I am sorry, but applause from the Gallery is out of order. I am awaiting the Minister of State's return. If he wishes to say a few brief words, he has the floor. Order for the Minister of State, please.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: It is quite all right.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Before I call on Senator Kelleher, I invite the Minister of State to make a brief comment.

Seanad: International Protection (Family Unification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I thank the Minister of State. I call Senator Kelleher..

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council, Brexit, Future of Europe and Western Balkans: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: They were not politicians.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: General Affairs Council, Brexit, Future of Europe and Western Balkans: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (7 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Helen McEntee, and her officials. We are glad she is here with us today because everything she is dealing with is very important, nothing more so than the whole question of Brexit. We salute the Minister of State on everything she achieved in phase one in December but now we are in the crucial phase, as my colleagues have just said. We have so much...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I have received notice from Senator Colm Burke that, on the motion for the Commencement of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter:The need for the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider amending legislation to permit notaries public to perform civil marriage ceremonies, given that registrars are not available at weekends. I have also received...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Civil Marriages (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: The Minister of State, Deputy Pat Breen, is very welcome as ever.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Primary Medical Certificates (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I welcome Mr. Ryan Tubridy to the Chamber. I am sorry that I missed most of his programme. I miscued at 9 a.m.

Seanad: Message from Joint Committee (8 Mar 2018)

Paul Coghlan: The Joint Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following orders:(i) Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 4(7)) (Membership of Council) Regulations 2017, and (ii) Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 4(2)) (Designation of professions: counsellors and psychotherapists and establishment of registration board) Regulations 2017.