Seanad debates

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Motion for Earlier Signature

 

1:35 pm

Photo of Maurice CumminsMaurice Cummins (Fine Gael)
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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 Social Welfare Bill 2012 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to him.

The Seanad divided by electronic means.

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Sinn Fein)
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Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again by other than electronic means.

Question put:

The Seanad divided: Tá, 29; Níl, 27.

Tellers: Tá, Senators Paul Coghlan and Aideen Hayden; Níl, Senators David Cullinane and Diarmuid Wilson.

Question declared carried.