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Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: May a teller abstain from a vote?

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I understand that. Can a named teller——

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: Does the fact that I have seconded amendment No. 8 preclude me from discussing amendment No. 14?

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: Okay. I understand that this is a tricky and difficult issue for the Minister of State to deal with. I recognise that a great deal of side discussion, etc., is taking place in this regard. We need to examine a number of matters. While amendment No. 14, in my name, proposes to amend the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993, its intent is very much in line with that of amendment No. 8....

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) Bill 2007: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: One has to ask for the local woman in the brothel.

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: The reason I came here tonight was to talk on these two issues. I was having extraordinary difficulty reconciling the position on sections 34 and 35. I welcome that the Government, in an extraordinarily progressive move which has not been recognised outside of here, is taking libel out of the criminal area and making it a civil action. At the same time, section 35 appeared to provide for...

Seanad: Defamation Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I second the amendment. Senator Norris and I have not agreed completely on this Bill but there are a number of issues in respect of which we have managed to agree, including this amendment. It is very helpful and certainly does not interfere with the spirit of the Bill. It lends a raison d'être and gravitas to the findings of the Press Council of Ireland. I am very supportive of the...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (11 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I extend condolences from the Independent benches to the former Senator Kit Ahern's family and party. I never served with her but knew her quite well. She was a pleasant woman and a great conversationalist. She never visited the House without going out of her way to speak to any of us with Kerry connections or from Kerry. I used to always tell her, like I tell all people from that part of...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: The Leader must use Mr. O'Leary's taxi to get here in that amount of time.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I also wish to refer to the Portlaoise report. Looking at it from a disinterested point of view in terms of trying to take the patient and emotion out of it, extraordinary questions must be asked on both sides of the House about the process. This is not a matter solely for the Opposition benches. I do not want to make this into a political issue. However, I want to know how the risk...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Second Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I seek to share time with Senator Rónán Mullen.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Second Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister to the House and I listened carefully to his speech. I envy him his ability to get to grips with the minutiae of this brief. I find it hard to concentrate on this so I presume he mostly told us the truth.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Second Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I wish to raise an issue that I tried to raise in the past year, previous to the Minister becoming the incumbent of his high office. The Minister is a practical man and I do not believe he will disagree with me on this subject, though his answer may be another matter. I am referring to the issue of a spouse employed by a spouse, which will often happen in accountants' offices, veterinary...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2008: Second Stage (5 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: However one looks at adult dependant allowances and contributory pensions, these spouses lose out. They have certain entitlements but there are also the issues of personal satisfaction, recognition and identification. I came here to raise this single matter and I ask the Minister to respond to it. How can this issue be justified? If the Minister feels this situation is wrong I ask him to...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I concur with the points made concerning the reports due to be issued today on developments at Tullamore Hospital. During the course of the discussion of the issues that gave rise to the reports, there was a rush to judgment regarding the role of an individual who, it appears, has been found not to have been responsible. This serves as a good lesson about the ease with which a person's...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: What secrets on autism and other issues must be related at a private meeting and kept from the rest of us?

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: I do not have the slightest problem with Fianna Fáil Party members meeting Ministers. The issue is whether new information is available of which we all need to be made aware. I want to know what those attending the meeting were told about the implementation of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act. Having discussed this issue several weeks ago, Senators are no wiser...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2008)

Joe O'Toole: It has not come in yet.