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Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister to the House. I congratulate her on her new portfolio and wish her the best of luck in the coming years. I have no doubt that she will do a magnificent job. She did that in the past in another portfolio and this one will be no problem to her. The previous Government deserves great credit in pulling everything together in a very short space of time during which the...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)

Paddy Burke: Now.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jul 2020)

Paddy Burke: I am sure the Leader will join me and other Senators in proposing a vote of sympathy for the late Mr. Terry Brennan, a former Member of this House. I ask that the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, CPP, discusses how we move forward with expressing votes of sympathy for former Members.It was usual that the family would come here on the day on which sympathies were expressed. I am sure...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Paddy Burke: I congratulate you, a Chathaoirligh, and wish you well in your term. I have no doubt but that you have the experience and the knowledge to do a wonderful job. I also welcome the new Members of the House and wish them well. I have no doubt at all but that this will be a very good Seanad. I congratulate Senator Hackett on her elevation to Minister of State with responsibility for...

Seanad: An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19) 2020: An Dara Céim - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Mar 2020)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Tánaiste to the House. I congratulate him, the Taoiseach, the other members of the Government and all the political parties and Independents on the very constructive proposals put forward and on demonstrating the speed at which the legislation can pass through both Houses of the Oireachtas.I express my sympathy to the people who have died in these trying times. They are...

Seanad: An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19) 2020: An Dara Céim - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Mar 2020)

Paddy Burke: The Tánaiste is doing a good job.

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Paddy Burke: I thank the Cathaoirleach and the Leas-Chathaoirleach for their courtesy over the past four years. It was a pleasure to work with both of them. It was not an easy task for them because there was no majority in this Chamber for one of the few times ever; we have probably had the most diverse Seanad in its history. I thank Martin Groves and Bridget Doody, and all the support staff who work...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: Not for the first time.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: I wish to be associated with the expressions of sympathy to the family of the late Cormac Ó Braonáin. I also offer my sympathy to the Labour Party on its great loss. It is obvious that he was a very fine young man. I wish the Cathaoirleach, Leas-Chathoireach, Mr. Martin Groves, Ms Bridget Doody and all of the Seanad staff well, as well as the Leader and his staff. People do not...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2019: Second and Subsequent Stages (18 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy. This is a short technical Bill but it is a very important one. As the Minister of State outlined, it is a mechanism that allows for the payment and carryover of unspent moneys so that social welfare, pensions and the pay of nurses and teachers can continue to be paid into the new year. It is a very important piece of legislation that has to...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2019: Motion for Earlier Signature (18 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: I move: That pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Appropriation Bill 2019 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to him.

Seanad: Migration of Participating Securities Bill 2019: Second Stage (18 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State. I am taking this Bill for Senator Kieran O'Donnell so I missed the briefings.

Seanad: Migration of Participating Securities Bill 2019: Second Stage (18 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: In the third paragraph, the Minister of State says it all. The Irish market relies upon a CSD based in the United Kingdom operated under the CREST settlement system. Once the UK becomes a third country under the relevant European legislation, the central securities depository, Euroclear UK & Ireland, may no longer be able to provide a service into Ireland, so it has to find a new...

Seanad: Migration of Participating Securities Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: The Minister of State clarified what will be needed for a quorum. We can take it then that he is acknowledging they will have to be there physically for the quorum.

Seanad: Migration of Participating Securities Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: This can be annulled by a resolution of either House within 21 days. If the Seanad annuls it, does the resolution then have to go to the Dáil? What is the protocol? Is a simple majority required in either House?

Seanad: Migration of Participating Securities Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: If it is annulled by the Seanad, it does not then have to go back to the Dáil. It is annulled and that is it.

Seanad: Migration of Participating Securities Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: On Tuesday, 21 January 2020 at 2.30 p.m.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: I did not see the film. I apologise for that. I hope to see it. I understand that it is very compelling and I thank the Senator for raising it in the House this morning. I watched a different film on RTÉ last night about McGowan's Funeral Directors in Ballina. It was a compelling documentary by RTÉ on how they embalm people and on the work of funeral directors. I congratulate...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: Funeral directors are to be congratulated on the work they do at an important time for people who lose loved ones. I raise an issue to which Senator Mulherin referred earlier in the week regarding the passive and A-rated houses that are being built throughout the country. I am calling on the Central Bank to relax the multiplier for mortgages, particularly in the context of A-rated and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: He could be Leader yet; He is are learning.