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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: Members can come in on the section but we cannot debate amendments that have been ruled out of order. Amendment No. 2, which has been ruled out of order, would require the District Court to appoint a guardian ad litemin all childcare proceedings and would enable the court to discharge that order where the child makes a request to that effect. Appointing a guardian ad litemin every childcare...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: Briefly. I must follow the rules.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: I only permitted the Minister to come in on it to provide additional information to members. Normally, there is no debate when items are ruled out of order other than what I put on the record.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: I regret this for the reasons I have already outlined and I voiced my support for other members on Second Stage. We are all on the same page here.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: This is not new but, unfortunately, it is the way the House works.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: The Deputy is not new - she has been here for four years.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: It does not show disregard.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: I am not reopening the rationale as I have already set it out very clearly.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: I know we did.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: That is the way it happens.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: The Deputy should take it up with the Bills Office or the Ceann Comhairle's office. I cannot make a decision on advice I was not given until 6 p.m. I would like to facilitate a debate but I will not do so on amendments that have been ruled out of order. If Deputies want to have another bite of the cherry, and I invite them to do that, they can do so in a general discussion on section 6...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: The Deputy will have to forgive me-----

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: I had made the assumption that the Deputy was familiar with how Committee Stage worked.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: I apologise for making that assumption.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: That is understood. On Committee Stage in the Dáil, as is the case with local authorities, when items are ruled out of order, leeway is given. I have provided that leeway. The Minister made a contribution on an item that had been ruled out of order. We cannot have a debate on items that are out of order but the members can make general contributions on each section and I encourage...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: I have. I have read out the rationale for amendment No. 2 being ruled out of order. Amendment No. 3 cannot be moved because it is consequential on amendment No. 1. The same rationale applies. Would the Deputy like me to read it out again?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: Amendment No. 3 would require the District Court to appoint a guardian ad litemin all childcare proceedings and would enable the court to discharge that order where the child makes a request to that effect. Appointing a guardian ad litemin every childcare case before the District Court would create a substantial increase in the costs to the State. The amendment must, therefore, be ruled out...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: Amendments Nos. 6 and 7 have been grouped and will be taken together. Amendment No. 7 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 6.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: The amendment is jointly tabled. The Deputies will have to come to an arrangement on it.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Farrell: Deputy Funchion's name is on amendment No. 7. The amendment cannot be withdrawn unless all the Members who tabled it agree to so do. Deputy Rabbitte also wishes to press amendment No. 6. Does anyone wish to make a concluding remark?