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Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: I would ask the Senator who removed the cancer services from Sligo General Hospital.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: Sligo people have clearly been discriminated against for 14 years.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: This Government will try to redress that situation in the coming years. Senator Bradford and others called for a debate on political reform in general and Seanad reform in particular. We have a difference of opinion on whether that debate should take place here or outside the House. I understand a wonderful debate on the subject took place in Trinity College last night, in which the Deputy...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: Whether the debate takes place in this House or in an appropriate forum outside the House, that issue will get an airing. I will certainly consider having such a debate in the House, but there is a difference of opinion on whether we should take up the time of the House to discuss its future or if the debate should take place elsewhere. Senator Quinn proposed that there be a cost benefit...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: Senator White also raised the issue of shared parental leave. She will have an opportunity to raise that with the Minister during next week's debate on the Social Welfare Bill. Senator Comiskey referred to problems with dental treatment services, which I will raise with the Minister for Health. However, the reality is that resources are very scarce and there will have to be cutbacks, as we...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: The Order of Business is No. 10, NAMA Transparency Bill 2011, motion to discharge Order for Second Stage, to be taken without debate; No. 1, motion of referral to the Joint Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture on the provision of funding through the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund, to be taken without debate at the conclusion of No. 10; No. 17, motion 6, calling on...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that we resume Committee Stage at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow, when it had been agreed that we would take Report Stage.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: We will adjourn at 7.30 p.m.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: Flawed amendments.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: Yesterday on the Order of Business Senator O'Brien rightly raised the question of the disability allowance and many other Members have raised it since then. As was stated, in the other House today the Taoiseach announced that the Minister for Social Protection has paused the disability measure until Ms Ita Mangan, the chairman of the taxation and social welfare advisory group, has carried...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: It is a response to the wishes of Members on all sides of this House and shows a caring Minister who is willing to respond to requests from Members of her own and all parties. The Minister, Deputy Burton, is to be commended on that. There has been a request to amend the Order of Business in the shape of four or five amendments. No, there are six.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: There are eight. That is totally unreasonable. Effectively, we are requesting the entire Cabinet to come to the House today to debate. There will be two or three days of debate on the Social Welfare Bill next week during which Members will have ample time to make many of the points they wish to raise and which were raised today. I ask Members to be reasonable, to confine their remarks and...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: There seem to be constant interruptions from Senator Walsh, for whatever reason.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: We will treat such remarks with the contempt they deserve. In her comments on the proposal to move to Central European Time, Senator Bacik complimented Senator Quinn. As the Senator mentioned, the relevant committee dealt with the issue. It may be possible to have a debate on that matter in the new year and its implications for business and for all walks of life. We should do that. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: If Senator Leyden wanted an amendment to this, he should have raised it last year when his Government signed up to it.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: Senator Mullins called for an all-Member debate on job creation in which each Member could provide two or more proposals, a good suggestion. One of the first items scheduled for when the House returns after Christmas is a discussion on the report of the advisory group on small businesses. The debate will take place on 11 January 2012. Members now have plenty of notice to come up with ideas...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: The Order of Business is No. 1, Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011 - all Stages, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business and to conclude no later than 3 p.m., with the contributions of group spokespersons on Second Stage not to exceed ten minutes and the contributions of all other Senators not to exceed eight minutes, and the Minister to...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: He has none.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: He has not.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Maurice Cummins: Senator Daly is welcome back.