Seanad debates
Friday, 27 February 2009
Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Motion for Earlier Signature
2:00 pm
Donie Cassidy (Fianna Fail)
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I move:
That, pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to her.
The Dail Divided:
For the motion: 25 (Dan Boyle, Martin Brady, Larry Butler, Ivor Callely, John Carty, Donie Cassidy, Maria Corrigan, Mark Daly, Déirdre de Búrca, Geraldine Feeney, Camillus Glynn, John Gerard Hanafin, Cecilia Keaveney, Terry Leyden, Lisa McDonald, Brian Ó Domhnaill, Labhrás Ó Murchú, Francis O'Brien, Denis O'Donovan, Fiona O'Malley, Ned O'Sullivan, Ann Ormonde, Kieran Phelan, Jim Walsh, Mary White)
Against the motion: 15 (Ivana Bacik, Jerry Buttimer, Paudie Coffey, Paschal Donohoe, Frances Fitzgerald, Fidelma Healy Eames, Nicky McFadden, David Norris, Joe O'Reilly, Joe O'Toole, Eugene Regan, Shane Ross, Brendan Ryan, Liam Twomey, Alex White)
Tellers: Tá, Senators Camillus Glynn and Labhrás Ó Murchú; Níl, Senators Paschal Donohoe and Liam Twomey.
Question declared carried.
Donie Cassidy (Fianna Fail)
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Ag 2.30 p.m. ar an Mháirt, 3 Márta 2009.