Results 2,441-2,460 of 4,295 for speaker:Catherine Noone
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: We agreed in private session that I would put the question that Article 40.3.3° should not be retained in full. Every member is entitled to vote against that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: There is a proposal here; there is no motion. The Senator was here for the private meeting. Many different things were discussed and various people submitted motions. There was a counter-motion and then a proposal was made. We are taking a vote on a proposal suggested by Deputy O'Brien. Senator Mullen knows why we reached this point as we have been discussing this for the past hour.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: My understanding from the clerk is that the question has been put and that, in line with procedure, we must now take a vote on it. I do not think we should even be having this debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: We are not hiding anything.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: I do not understand what Senator Mullen and Deputy McGrath are proposing and seconding. The question has already been put.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: We agreed as a committee that we would give notice of any motions so that they be submitted in advance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: This is not a motion. It is a proposal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: The question has been put so in terms of procedure I am correct in saying that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: I am telling the committee what the clerk has told me. He has a very good knowledge of procedure and both he and the legal adviser have informed me that the question, "That Article 40.3.3° should not be retained in full", has been put and that we are now to vote on it. We discussed this for the past hour and this is how we came to this point. It is usual in committees that we have a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: Okay. To be fair, before I let other members in, many members had indicated early on that they wanted to go into public session early and Senator Mullen is not alone there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: Because we needed legal advice on the conversation we were having and one is not entitled to have legal advice while in public session. That is the reason we were in private session. Let there be no ambiguity about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: Excuse me, members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: Deputy Mattie McGrath indicated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: Deputy Mattie McGrath is making his views known now, that is fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: Please finish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: Thank you, please finish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: We can do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: We can do that at any stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: Exactly, sorry. Senator Ruane had indicated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)
Catherine Noone: Sorry, will members who have indicated please raise their hands again?