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Seanad: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: I welcome the Minister back to the House. This is a Seanad Bill which has been amended by the Dáil. In accordance with Standing Order 118, it is deemed to have passed its First, Second and Third Stages in the Seanad and is placed on the Order Paper for Report Stage. On the question "That the Bill be received for final consideration", the Minister may explain the purpose of the amendments...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: I am sorry, but Senators can only contribute once on each grouping of amendments. I am not trying to stymie debate. That is simply the rule.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: I ask the Minister to speak on the subject matter of the amendments in group No. 4.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: The Senator is wandering away.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: First, we do not want to have a debate here on corporate donations or on electoral boundaries.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: The Minister is constrained in what he can say in regard to this Bill. As we are discussing a particular Bill, I do not want Members to wander. I certainly will not allow a debate on corporate donations here today.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: The Minister may now move on to the subject matter of the amendments in group No. 5.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: The Senator has put it on the record.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: All of these comments support the concept of the Bill and praise the Minister for his work. I think we can move on to the sixth grouping.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: We will move on to the sixth group of amendments.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: The Senator is going down the ghost-path route and is wandering a little.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: I call Senator Keane. The gender balance today is very positive for the females.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: The Senator should not transgress into other matters.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: I call Senator O'Keeffe, last but not least.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: I now call Senator Mooney to bring a bit of male balance to the debate.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: I ask the Senator to confine himself to the debate at issue now.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: I will call on the Minister to respond but before he does I wish to tell him he is a very tall fine man at 6 ft. 4 in. or 6 ft. 5 in. and perhaps he will be walking a little taller this evening after all of the nice comments. I am not sure who said this but it was quoted to me once: Do I sleep? do I dream? Do I wonder and doubt? Are things what they seem? Or is visions about? The Minister...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: It is easy to know the curtain is falling on this term of the 24th Seanad.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Jul 2012)

Denis O'Donovan: I hope it will not be played back to me in Bantry some night.