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Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: The Minister should consider this for the other House and I shall withdraw the amendment.

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: This is a very big point if the interpretation I have is right.

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I want to facilitate the Minister. We are not at all at odds.

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I agree with the rationale put forward by Deputy Flanagan on this matter. We are discussing the partial exclusion of people from availing of the provisions of cohabitation based on marriage. In its consultation paper, the Law Reform Commission originally proposed to exclude all cohabiting relationships where one or both cohabitants is married to a third party. I understood the reasoning...

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: We are not going to win, so we might as well withdraw.

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I also have extensive advice that this will prove to be a difficulty. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No.36: In page 86, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: 170.—It shall be the objective of the court in exercising powers under this Part, insofar as possible, to make such orders as will finally determine the financial arrangements between the parties and avoid further proceedings between them.". This is an important addition. We had problems with divorce...

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I would like it to be accepted because many people who have dealt with litigation in divorce proceedings would like us to revisit that and end matters. It is very difficult for people who are in a relationship and when the relationship ends, there are matters to be settled. The notion that in five, six or ten years' time, when people have gone on to live another life, somebody will haul...

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: The responsibility of the cohabitee surely ends somewhere.

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: That is not what I intended with this amendment, but I will not labour the point.

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: We often put the intention of the House into statute. For example, on the simple matter of mandatory sentencing on which the Minister has argued, we do not ever put absolute mandatory sentencing into statute law except in regard to murder. There is always an opt-out clause for the court to make a different determination. Even when we say this is the mandatory sentence, we give flexibility...

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the amendment. It brings clarity to the process, which is important.

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Fifth Stage (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: This is an historic moment. I said on 3 December 2009 when I spoke on Second Stage that it was an historic day and one that was a long time coming. We have spent several months working on this difficult but very important legislation. The Bill we will pass in this House tonight is practical in that it gives concrete legal benefits to thousands of Irish citizens who are in committed loving...

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Fifth Stage (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: It is very good of the Minister to consider us.

Civil Partnership Bill 2010: Fifth Stage (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: This is a Second Stage speech.

National Drugs Strategy (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I will allow a brief supplementary question from Deputies Ring and Wall.

Message from Seanad (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Seanad Éireann has passed the European Financial Stability Facility Bill 2010 without amendment.

Adjournment Debate Matters (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Joan Burton - the withdrawal of English language support teachers from Mary Mother of Hope Senior School, Littlepace, Clonee, Dublin 15; (2) Deputy Pat Breen - the future of the newly refurbished dementia unit at St. Joseph's...

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when his Department received an application for redundancy payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; when this application is likely to be processed to completion and any entitlement awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28901/10]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Question 251: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has prepared regulations to ensure that central and local government purchases of wood products are both certified and sustainable in view of the revised programme for Government commitment to green public procurement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29087/10]