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- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: We spent an hour on them the last day.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Is the amendment being pressed?
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Amendment No.5 in the name of Senator Zappone has been ruled out of order.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Amendments Nos. 6 and 7 are related. Is it agreed that they be discussed together? Agreed.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: The Minister, without interruption.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: We are not debating septic tanks at the moment. We are discussing amendments Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: We are on the amendments, not the section.
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Amendment No. 12, in the names of Senators Cullinane, Ã Clochartaigh and Reilly, seeks to delete the derogation provision from section 7(2) which provides that the equal treatment in respect of pay only will not apply to an agency worker provided certain conditions are met. This would bring an additional group of agency workers within the scope of equal treatment. Accordingly, this would...
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: It is a tax through the public sector hirer of agency workers. I have ruled that it is out of order.
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: We are not having a discussion on it. I have made my decision on it. Amendment No. 13 is ruled out of order because it would have the effect of excluding agency workers assigned to work for public sector hirers from the scope of the derogation. This would have the effect of imposing an additional cost on a public sector hirer of agency workers as well.
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Amendments Nos. 14 and 16 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Before we commence I remind Senators that with the exception of the proposer of an amendment, who may reply to the discussion on it, Senators may speak only once on Report Stage. Also, each amendment must be seconded.
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Amendments Nos. 2, 19, 20 and 23 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Amendments Nos. 4, 5, 8, 11, 18, 21 and 22 are related, amendments Nos. 6 and 7 are also related and are alternatives to amendment No. 5 and amendments Nos. 9 and 10 are also related and are alternatives to amendment No. 8. Therefore, amendments Nos. 4 to 11, inclusive, 18, 21 and 22 may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Report of Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments: Statements (24 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: I thank the Minister of State. That concludes the debate. When is it proposed to sit again?
- Seanad: Report of Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments: Statements (24 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Senator Paschal Mooney to continue, without interruption.
- Seanad: Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: Will the Deputies claiming a division, please, rise?
- Seanad: Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: As fewer than five Members have risen, I declare the question carried. The names of the Members dissenting will be recorded in the Journal of Proceedings of the Seanad.
- Seanad: Ráiteas faoi Eolas do Vótálaithe: TairiscintStatement for Information of Voters: Motion (24 Apr 2012)
Paddy Burke: This motion was debated in conjunction with the Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012.