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Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (9 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Yes, it is a point of order. I understand we are on Second Stage.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (9 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I understand we are discussing Second Stage of the Bill.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (9 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister is obliged to answer at the end and not at this point.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (9 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I find this behaviour contemptuous. We are dealing with a very important subject for which I have complete regard.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (9 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That sort of behaviour is contemptuous.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (9 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is contemptuous.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is fitting to ask that when we speak about life and death matters, be it abortion or euthanasia, we be very tempered in the language we use, knowing our words affect others. All I ask for is tolerance and respect. Clearly, Senators are coming from different starting points. That is fine, but let us be careful about the language we use. Will the Leader ask the Minister for Education and...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil): An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed): Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for sticking with us. We are at a defining moment in Irish parliamentary democracy and we must proceed with great care lest we be sorry in the future. The fundamental question we need to answer concerns what type of parliament we need to best serve the Irish people and whether the abolition of the Seanad will provide for that through this Bill....

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil): An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed): Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That is a terrible indictment of them.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I add my words to the request for the Leader to accede to a greater amount of time on the abortion Bill. It would be helpful. I join in the welcome for the report on the youth guarantee produced this morning by our great colleague, Senator Kathryn Reilly. She is absent at the moment but we are very proud of her and it needs to be kept up. If we are not concerned about our youth, we are not...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is urgent and important that we have a debate on the new mortgage code of conduct before the summer recess. Anything that threatens people's homes must be fully scrutinised and debated in this House. That is our job. The Irish people have lost enough. To say that the revelations in the Anglo Irish Bank tapes have angered the public is an understatement. We must give people a hand...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Getting at the truth is more important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: How does Ireland fair vis-à-vis the other European countries with regard to reasoned opinions in terms of testing the subsidiarity principle? Where do we feature in terms of the number of reasoned opinions Ireland submits versus other parliaments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Were we sending more reasoned opinions when we had a centralised European scrutiny committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I know, but the witness has no way of checking the quality of our scrutiny. At least when there is a reasoned opinion, it is a quantitative check that we have done something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I think so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I might suggest to the Vice Chairman a useful proposal that this committee could make, namely, that it would make a comment and not just submit reasoned opinions. That has to be helpful to the Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the witness. There has been much debate about democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU. What initiative by the EU has best increased democratic legitimacy and accountability, and how is that measured in terms of effectiveness. A second question relates to the three initiatives by the European Parliament, and the witness spoke about the election of MEPs and new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with CEPS (2 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On that point, does the witness consider there are enough reasoned opinions coming from national parliaments to assist the depth of scrutiny that surrounds subsidiarity?