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Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: The contents of the legislation cannot be discussed now. All that can be asked is when will the legislation be introduced.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: The content of the legislation cannot be pursued now.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: I am afraid the Deputy has gone beyond all boundaries there.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: No legislation is promised in that area. The Deputy will have to table a question to find out about the matter.

Order of Business (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: The Deputy will have to table a question.

Vote 41 — Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised Estimate). (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: Question put, "That the Revised Estimates for public services, Votes 1 to 41, inclusive, for the year ending 31 December 2009 be agreed to."

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are consequential on amendment No. 6. Amendment No. 3 is a technical alternative. Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, and amendment No. 6 may be discussed together. A recommittal is necessary in respect of these amendments because they do not arise out of committee proceedings. I call on the Minister to move that the Bill be recommitted in respect of these amendments.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: Is that agreed?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: Would the Minister of State like to make an explanatory statement before we move any further? Then we can listen to the argument.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: There is no need to go into the amendments, only to explain the need for recommittal. Does Deputy Reilly have a problem with the recommittal?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: Deputy Ó Caoláin cannot say to the House that the Attorney General is definitively wrong on any matter, when he has not been proved wrong. I cannot allow that happen when he is not here to defend himself.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: I suppose he is not. The proposal before us is whether to recommit these amendments to Committee Stage. The question as to whether the amendments are acceptable to Members is a different matter and goes to the substance. The Bill, as its Title suggests, is a miscellaneous Bill, the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009. Therefore, the amendments are in order. I want to advise...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: Strictly speaking, there can only be one intervention by each spokesperson. Unfortunately, I will have to put the question.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: Go on.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: The amendments need to be recommitted as they do not arise out of Committee proceedings. To that extent, the Deputy is correct and they would not be in order. The issue is whether Deputies wish to have a vote on this. If there is a vote on this, the result will decide if amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, and amendment No. 6 are recommitted. The vote will take up a certain amount of...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: We cannot go back on it now. That debate is over.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: That debate is over. I will ask the Minister of State, Deputy Moloney to move amendment No. 1. Deputy Reilly can talk about it when his turn comes. I am not going back on it now. I must move along. Amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, and amendment No. 6 will be discussed together.

Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: Amendment No. 1 arises from committee proceedings. Amendment No. 38 is related and will be discussed with amendment No. 1.

Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: Amendment No. 2 in the name of Deputy Ó Snodaigh arises out of committee proceedings. Amendments Nos. 2, 3 and 5 are related and will be discussed together.

Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (24 Jun 2009)

John O'Donoghue: It is being circulated.