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- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Clifford-Lee, on the section please.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind the Senator we are on section 71. It is on governance frameworks, not reports.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: Can you clarify that remark to the House?
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: Before I call the Minister, I welcome the president of the Association of Irish Local Government, AILG, Councillor Gail Dunne, to the Public Gallery. I thank him for being here today.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: I call Senator Clifford-Lee and ask her to speak to the section and to avoid repetition.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is straying.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: The Senator is straying beyond a point of order.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: If the Senator will let me adjudicate on the point of order, which I have just done, I will give him clarity, if he would like to hear it. The Chief Whip is not answerable to the House with regard to the proposal. It is for the Government to reflect upon the request of Members. If the Government decides to come back with an amendment to the Order of Business of the day, the Leader may,...
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: The House agreed on the Order of Business and the arrangements for the sitting of the House for today. Members of the House have asked the Leader to look at changing the Order of Business but that is a matter for the Leader and the Government. To be fair to Senator Gallagher, it is not a matter for the Government Chief Whip. He should not be put on the spot in the Chamber. I call Senator...
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: There is no such thing as a point of information.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: I say to all Members of the House that, if the Leader comes back with such a proposal, I, as Cathaoirleach, the Leas-Chathaoirleach and other Members who act as temporary chairs will facilitate that. However, that is a matter for the Government and the Leader alone.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Keogan was about to start. I hope she is not making a point of order or a point of information.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: It is open to any Member to amend the Order of Business, if they so decide.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator Craughwell is a long-standing Member of the House and will know better than most that comments like that are unnecessary, unwelcome and irrelevant.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: Senator McGahon indicated that we wished to make a point of order.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: Okay, then the Senator may not speak.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: It is whoever the Leader decides to appoint in her absence.
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: The Acting Leader, whoever that person-----
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: It is great that the Senators are all experts on Standing Orders and the rules of the House. I hope they will all adhere to them in future because it would make the running of the House an awful lot better, enhance the debates and lend-----
- Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)
Jerry Buttimer: Amendments Nos. 50, 51, 66, 106, 107, 126 and 127 are related and may be discussed together, by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.