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

Diarmuid Wilson: Oh my God Almighty.

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

Diarmuid Wilson: If Senator Humphreys wants to rewrite history-----

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

Diarmuid Wilson: Obviously. I can see that.

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

Diarmuid Wilson: What about the future?

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

Diarmuid Wilson: Senator Humphreys will have the opportunity-----

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

Diarmuid Wilson: We will vote on it.

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

Diarmuid Wilson: Very little consultation.

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

Diarmuid Wilson: Thank you, Davy.

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

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, to the House. I am speaking on this Bill on behalf of my colleague, Senator Swanick, who is unfortunately unable to be here this evening. It is great to see this Bill get to this Stage. It has passed all Stages in Dáil Éireann and was prioritised by the Joint Committee on Health. This demonstrates the appetite there is for...

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

Diarmuid Wilson: We reserve the right to introduce an amendment on Report Stage to this section of the Bill that would retain subsection 4(2) of the 2001 Act. The Bill currently proposes its deletion. This provides some degree of additional and more specific protection. The Department of Health raised concerns over the relevance of subsections 4(3) to 4(6) of section 3 of the Bill, given that they are...

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

Diarmuid Wilson: We will propose an amendment on Report Stage to this section of the Bill to include a separate stand-alone section setting out guiding principles to apply to children who are voluntarily admitted. The proposal in the Bill to include child-friendly guiding principles in section 25 of the 2001 Act currently only applies to involuntarily detained children. It is important that guiding...

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

Diarmuid Wilson: On Report Stage, we will submit an amendment to remove reference to "voluntary patient". We will also submit an amendment to include a separate stand-alone section to address consent provisions for people who are voluntarily admitted. Legally, consent provisions for people who are voluntarily admitted should be addressed in a separate section of the Act. Regarding the definition of "the...

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

Diarmuid Wilson: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Diarmuid Wilson: Like the Cathaoirleach, I welcome to the Visitors Gallery Councillors Joe Carroll, Patrick Gerard Murphy, Mary Hegarty and Gerard Murphy, a former Dáil Deputy, and my good friend, Deputy Margaret Murphy O'Mahony. We are all aware that over the last year in particular, but at all times since I became a Member of this House, there have been attempts to improve the pay and conditions of...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Diarmuid Wilson: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Diarmuid Wilson: On the basis that the Minister of State is not available and that the Leader has given a commitment to the effect that he will be here next week, I will not push the matter. I am well aware that people on all sides want progress regarding the pay and conditions of councillors. It is an extremely serious matter that councillors going about their democratically-elected business are worse off...

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

Diarmuid Wilson: Before I call Senator Coffey, I welcome Deputy Peadar Tóibín and his guests to the Public Gallery.

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

Diarmuid Wilson: We have an academic council that decides these things.

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

Diarmuid Wilson: Is Senator O'Sullivan pressing the amendment?

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

Diarmuid Wilson: The Minister of State may continue, without interruption.