Results 10,241-10,260 of 11,812 for speaker:Denis O'Donovan
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: If the Chair ruled on it earlier, I will change my view. I ask Senator Mullen to be cúramach.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: Please allow the Senator to proceed.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: I ask Senator Mullen to try to stick to the amendment.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: The more often Senators interrupt Senator Mullen, the more they prolong the debate. I am sure he will get back on track very quickly.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: Before we proceed, do I hear somebody on a phone behind those shutters? I hear a voice in the background. The person should leave the Chamber and use the anteroom. I can hear a voice, and if a Senator is using his or her phone in the Chamber, I will suspend for half an hour.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: Hold it for a second. There appears to be somebody using a phone in the Chamber.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: There is a conversation going on and I am finding it difficult to hear the Senator.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: Does the Minister wish to respond?
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: The Minister has nothing further to add. Is the amendment being pressed?
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: Amendments Nos. 47 to 52, inclusive, are related. Amendment No. 48 is a physical alternative to No. 47. Amendments Nos. 47 to 52, inclusive, may be taken together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: The debate on the last amendment took 26 minutes, only for the amendment to be withdrawn rather than put. I am inclined to disallow debating an amendment for 26 minutes only to withdraw it with a view to resubmitting it on Report Stage. One cannot have two bites at the cherry. Anyhow, I will let the Senator proceed. I will reflect on this but it is my view that if a Senator debates an...
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: I am just giving the Senator my view.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: Through the Chair, please.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: I am trying to prevent interruptions to Senator Norris's flow of speech.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: I have listened very carefully to the Senator and I thought that he would be selective in what he said or did not say.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: I take it from what Senator Ó Domhnaill has said, the midwife objects to the entire Bill and not the section. I do not dispute the sincerity of the person who wrote the letter. I understand that the entire Bill does not suit her, and she is entitled to her view. We are debating a particular section here. When I allowed the Senator to read the letter I presumed that it would just be a...
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: I have to be fair to everyone. I was told earlier that we will probably be sitting until 2.30 a.m. I do not mind. I am quite happy to stay here, but others may not be.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: With all due respect, a letter is a letter but that is like an epitaph. I have to be very careful in allowing it to be read because somebody else could come in and keep us here all night by reading ten such letters onto the record. As I said earlier, with all due respect, the letter broadly says "No" to this legislation and does not refer exactly to the amendment before us. I cannot allow...
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: I am not doing so.
- Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)
Denis O'Donovan: I am checking everybody's time. Senator Ó Domhnaill has spent almost 12 minutes reading a letter into the record. I presumed it was a couple of paragraphs. The Senator said he was reading "some" of it into the record It must be an awful long letter. Anyway, the Senator has made his point. There are three or four more speakers. I will let them in in due course.