Results 1,361-1,380 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003 [Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: On a point of order, if a number of amendments are grouped, we may speak to that group.
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003 [Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003 [Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: We are all agreed then.
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003 [Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: I move amendment No. 5: In page 22, line 16, to delete "The father of a child" and substitute "A man". I thank the Minister for helping me to understand the rights of alleged and unmarried fathers in the context of this section. On Committee Stage she clarified the matter very eloquently as follows. A father in Irish law is presumed to be a father if he is married to a mother and they have a...
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003 [Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: I am addressing cases where parents are not married. I thought I was being helpful to the Minister and I will try again. Section 22(1) as currently drafted states: The father of a child who was not married to the mother of the child at the date of his or her birth or at any time during the period of 10 months before such birth shall not be required to give information under this Act about the...
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003 [Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: Interestingly, under current law there is no such presumption.
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003 [Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: Do the Minister's statistics cover every maternity hospital?
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003 [Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: I understand the difficulty with the lack of definition in the phrase "a man". Perhaps substituting "Adam" would be an improvement.
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003 [Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: Sometimes Eve becomes Adam, if we are to include transsexual relationships. There is an interesting argument about married couples. There is a presumption that the husband is automatically the father of his wife's child, but this may not always be the case. Some people have even suggested that husbands should also be required to declare their paternity. I understand the dilemma faced by the...
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003 [Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: I move amendment No. 6: In page 22, line 17, to delete "the" where it firstly occurs and substitute "a". I propose to withdraw this amendment. If we were to refer to Adam as a man, it would require that we insert a reference to "a child", as against "the child".
- Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: Given the Government's decision to push ahead with legislation to bring about electronic voting for the June elections without the consensus of all parties, when will the legislation be before the House? When that legislation comes to the House, I intend to use Article 27 of the Constitution to ask a majority of Members in the House and at least a third of the Members in the other House to...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: Where are they now? Many elements of the Fianna Fáil Party have a difficulty with the concept of a paper trail, but it is vital that a paper trail exists, that votes can be verified and that people have confidence in the process. The Minister, Deputy Cullen, is not imbuing the system with confidence. I understand that the Minister of State, Deputy Noel Ahern, gave further ammunition to those...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: ââdoes not happen, which is why I will put Article 27 of the Constitution to the House when this matter comes before it.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: That is right.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: Let the people decide.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: If we get a debate.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)
Brian Hayes: Just for a while.