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- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Both the Senator and the Minister have spoken on amendment No. 5, when speaking on amendment No. 4. How stands amendment No. 5, Senator? If Senator Warfield wishes, he can speak to the overall section 5, at which point he can raise any point he has missed on the earlier amendments.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Have we a way of resolving this as we have already moved and withdrawn amendment No. 4 with the agreement of the House? We can, however, speak to the overall section 5, which includes amendments Nos. 4 and 5, and in that way the same points can then be made by the Senator. Is that fair? Can I suggest to Senator Warfield then that he move and withdraw amendment No. 5. We can then move to...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: I welcome to the Visitors Gallery David Burns and Loy McParland from Ravensdale, County Louth, and indeed Deputy Gannon, who is here with his guests. We are discussing the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity (Amendment) Bill, which I am sure they will all agree is important.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: That is no problem.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Would Senator Warfield like to speak to the amendment?
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Is Senator Warfield pressing the amendment?
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Amendments Nos. 7, 8, 11, 12, 23, 24 and 33 to 35, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Amendment No. 9 has been ruled out of order as there is a potential charge on the Revenue.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Amendments Nos. 13, 14 and 25 to 27, inclusive, may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Amendments Nos. 15 and 16 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Amendments Nos. 17 and 18 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: I am 31 years of age and I am the youngest Member of this House. I was thinking back to 2009 when I did my leaving certificate. We were coming out of the height of the economic recession and some of the toughest financial times, not just this country but the world had seen. When I think about people I know who emigrated back then, they did so out of economic necessity because they were no...
- Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: If it is all right, I am just trying to speak without the theatrics. We are all allowed to express different points of view. The people who have tabled this motion, quite rightly, have a point of view but those on this side of the House also have a point of view.
- Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Unfortunately, no speakers from the Gallery are allowed, only Members, whether people put their hands up or not. The point is, without the theatrics, I am putting forward a point of view based on my experience as a young person in this country. I am someone who came out of the height of a recession in 2009. I have seen what my friends in their 20s have done throughout that period and what...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: Over the past number of weeks, many Senators will have received representations from and spoken to members of the Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO, ahead of next week's budget. I did that consistently with people in my own hometown of Dundalk. I met one teacher who made to points that hit home. Her name is Muireann O’Keeffe and she teaches at a school in Ravensdale in...
- Seanad: School Transport: Motion (21 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: To follow on from Senator Lombard, the reason we brought this matter to the attention of the House and sought a Commencement debate is to get clarity. I am a team player when it comes to my party and this Government. I am a team player because of the way I was brought up, the sports I have played and everything else. I will go out and defend to the bloody hilt, but this is one example of a...
- Seanad: School Transport: Motion (21 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: It is seven to eight thousand.
- Seanad: School Transport: Motion (21 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: I have time and I would like to finish. The number is not 78,000 because only 38,000 children in the country getting this school transport, not triple that. I am coming into the House not because I am frustrated but because I am upset. We all have personal stories, and no doubt the Minister has the same issue in her constituency of Kerry, of parents who are going through serious issues, be...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Education Policy (14 Sep 2022)
John McGahon: As there is a vote in the Dáil, I ask Senator Cummins to propose the suspension of the sitting.