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Seanad: Business of Seanad (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Haughey, to the House. Warm tributes were paid to him on the Order of Business from Government, Fine Gael, Labour and Independent Senators. He served in this House in a most distinguished manner. We are pleased that his first speaking function is in Seanad Éireann.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: It never happened to me in all my years in public life so I regret the Senator was absent when the Minister was present to take the Adjournment debate. The Order of Business is No. 1, Defamation Bill 2006, Second Stage (resumed), to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business and to conclude no later than 1.30 p.m. with the contributions of Senators not to exceed ten minutes and the...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Did the Senator win?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Brian Hayes raised the matter as to why the motion in my name with regard to Mr. Brian Curtin is still on the Order Paper. I will obtain a satisfactory explanation which is what the Senator seeks. Senator Hayes also congratulated the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science, Deputy Haughey. Most people in this House do so. Senator Hayes also spoke about Mr....

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Two different Governments were in power since 1993. The idea of selling the house over one's head as one lay ill was enforced. We have the example of the mother of Senator Dardis whose house was sold as she lay ill and dying to pay for her nursing home care.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I qualified it by stating I would not enter into a debate. I hope the debate gets a proper level of publicity and that its provisions are made public and understandable. Senator O'Meara also wants a debate on child care and asked why everybody is homing in on only one provision of the report of the committee. Nobody wants to talk about the 59 other worthwhile provisions. Senator Dardis...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (13 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I wish to express the sympathy of the House and of our party at the very sad death of the former Senator Andy O'Brien, who served for many years in this Chamber and whom the Cathaoirleach would have known very well. His family is here today. While for them it is a sad occasion, for us it is good to get to meet those he left behind. His lovely grandchildren show the recurring theme of...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: On policing?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The Morris and Barr tribunals and so on.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: It ended five minutes early.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: In speaking about the dreadful double murder this morning in Finglas, Senator Brian Hayes observed that for many years we all worried privately and in our public discussions about the activities of subversives and that what is happening now is another type of subversion, equally dangerous to that which occupied our minds for so long. He asked how the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Yes. Senator Ormonde called for a debate on auctioneering and congratulated the Minister for Health and Children on her imaginative scheme for care for the elderly. The weather on Sunday was dreadful but I thoroughly enjoyed Senator Ross's article in the Sunday Independent. It was a clever piece in which, under the name Seán de Rossa, he applied for an auctioneer's licence and received it...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Norris claimed the nursing homes Bill collapsed last week. I was in the Chamber for what was a lively debate on the Bill. Every Member who wished to speak on it had an opportunity to do so. It did not collapse in the real meaning of the term. It ended five minutes earlier than its allocated time.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Senator Norris spoke very well in the debate about his dear aunt who was in the Alexandria nursing home. Senator Norris called for the Minister for Foreign Affairs to call in the Iranian ambassador to rebuke him on a conference being held in Tehran. Senator John Paul Phelan spoke on armed crime in Finglas and the killing of the postmaster in County Kilkenny. The victim did have Roscommon...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: The Order of Business is No. 1, a motion to refer without debate to the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights for consideration the subject matter of No. 18 on the Order Paper, namely, the extension of the period of detention of an arrested person for questioning in a Garda station from 12 to 24 hours; No. 2, a motion to refer without debate to the Joint Committee...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: Seán de Rossa.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: They removed them.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: With regard to Senator Brian Hayes's first point on No. 25, the Curtin motion, I understand it will be removed from the Order Paper in time. Senator Finucane also referred to the issue. There is a roadmap with regard to what the committee examined and discovered, and that roadmap will be extremely useful for the future should judicial misdemeanours arise which would require action.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: I expect it will be removed from the Order Paper after Christmas.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2006)

Mary O'Rourke: We will not be debating the matter. It is a Government matter. There will not be a report on the motion in the House. The committee would have reported had the matter drawn to a conclusion but it did not do so, and, therefore, the committee could not issue a report. I expect that is the situation.