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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Senator Gabrielle McFadden was next. It is 5 p.m. and the order of the House was that this item was to be taken at 3 p.m. and adjourned no later than 5 p.m., if not previously concluded. I ask the Acting Leader to report progress.

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Is the Senator speaking on section 2?

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I remind the Senator that this is Committee Stage and not Second Stage. I ask her to conclude at this stage. I do not know how much more she has, but it is-----

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to take the next Stage?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I second Senator Wilson's proposed amendment to the Order of Business. I support his comments and those of Senator McFadden on councillors' pay and conditions. The Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, was in the Seanad before Christmas to announce these proposals and Senators were writing to councillors to congratulate them on what they were getting and accepting praise for all that they were...

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Naughten, to the House and invite him to proceed.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: For the information of Members, this matter was to be taken at 4.45 p.m. and is to adjourn not later than 6.15 p.m., if not previously concluded, with the time allocated to group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes and that to all other Senators not to exceed five minutes. The next speaker is Senator Terry Leyden, who has eight minutes.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, back to the House. The debate will resume on Committee Stage of the Technological Universities Bill 2015. When the debate adjourned last week, the House was discussing amendment No. 19 which had been moved by Senator Alice Mary Higgins. A number of Senators had contributed. Before I call on the Minister of State, do any other...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: To remind Members, we were discussing amendment No. 19. Amendments Nos. 19, 20, 32 and 38 are related and may be discussed together. That was agreed. Amendment No. 20 is an alternative to amendment No. 19.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: We are discussing amendment No. 19 at the moment. Senators Marie-Louise O'Donnell and Gerard Craughwell have indicated.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: It was in reference to the Universities Act. Not this Bill.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I think we have exhausted the debate on amendment No. 19 at this point. How stands the amendment?

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Amendment No. 20 has already been discussed with amendment No. 19. How stands the amendment?

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Amendments Nos. 21 and 23 are related and will be discussed together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Our Public Service 2020: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (13 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I thank the Minister for his opening remarks. On the Public Sector Standards Bill, I understand Deputy Dara Calleary has been working very well with the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, on it. I want to put on record some of the discussions we have had here with both the Association of Irish Local Government, AILG, and Local Authority Members Association, LAMA, who felt the initial...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I was reluctant to interrupt Senator Coffey in mid flow. However, I must remind Members we are discussing amendment No. 7, section 8, about the naming of a university. While the Senator did comment on it, much of what he said was not speaking to the amendment.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I did not say it was not. That is why I let him keep going. It was not about what we were meant to be talking about, however. I call Senator Craughwell.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: Is the Senator pressing the amendment?

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I heard the Minister of State refer a number of times to STEAM rather than STEM.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Gerry Horkan: I remind Members that we are almost two hours into this debate and we are on amendment No. 8. We have 38 amendments to try to get through in the next hour. I accept that we may not get through them and that we will sit another day, but I remind people that we have less than an hour left for this topic today.