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- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: I also wish to offer my congratulations to Senator Naughton and to welcome her to the House. I wish her every success and I hope she will enjoy many pleasant days here. As a former Taoiseach's appointee - I was first appointed in 1989 - I can inform her that have had many enjoyable years as a Member of the Seanad. I hope the Senator will be here for as long as I have been and that she will...
- Seanad: Membership of Committees: Motion (19 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: I have a brief point of order. I am usually brief anyway. I have been in this House for approximately 14 years. This is the first time I have stood up to raise a point of order. I am deeply concerned that what has been proposed is an abuse. I want to get the advice of the Leader and the Cathaoirleach. This Standing Order is usually used in emergency situations, such as severe economic...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: I rise to support a comment made by the Leader and Senator Mullen regarding item No. 1 on the Order Paper. As Chairman of the Committee of Selection, I want to put on the record that we had no meeting; neither was I requested formally to have a meeting. Not alone should the Committee of Selection have met, but the Committee on Procedure and Privileges should have met. This particular...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: It is like a kangaroo court. There have been no meetings. There has been no attempt to do this in a fashion, as is normal, that complies with the Standing Orders that have applied in this and the other House for many years. I am disappointed at the way in which the power and duties of the select committee have been usurped. We have been sidelined. Maybe we should be disbanded. I am not...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: The other amendments relate to different sections.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: Does the Senator wish to press the amendment?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: As there are no tellers on the Níl side, the vote will not proceed, and so I declare the question carried.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: That is more appropriate to section 9.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: That is the critical section on the whole area of suicide, to avoid repetition.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: I wish to remind Members that we are dealing with the risk of loss of life from physical illness and that the suicide issue is confined to section 9. I would like to remind Members who are maybe of an opposing view not to concentrate on that because it is ultra vires the issue before us now. I call Senator Mullen.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: Senator Cullinane has not spoken yet. He should try to avoid the suicide issue which is in section 9. There are a lot of other amendments on that issue.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: Is Senator Mullen pressing the amendment?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: Senator Mullen has tabled this amendment. I accept that he has done so in good faith and he is entitled to expand on it. At the same time I think that it is unwise and foolish to-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: There is one issue on which I have ruled, and that is that the suicide clause is dealt with in section 9 and Senator Gilroy probably wandered into that section unintentionally or otherwise.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: For the merit of Senator Mullen's amendments, he is quite capable of dealing with them without going down the road of the suicide clause.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: The Minister for Health has already said what he can say on this section, so we will move on to amendment No.15.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: It cannot be moved. That is the ruling. Amendments Nos. 15, 33 and 54 are related and may be discussed together.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: It cannot be moved because it has already been discussed with amendment No.13. That is the procedural agreement.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: Amendment No.13 has been dealt with. Amendments Nos. 13 and 14 are related and so it cannot be moved as it has already been dealt with under amendment No.13. That is my ruling. I call on Senator Mullen.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Denis O'Donovan: Senator Gilroy, your interventions might be unhelpful to the debate.