Seanad debates
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Suspension of Standing Orders: Motion
6:50 pm
Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail)
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I move: "That Standing Orders for today's sitting be suspended."
I want to move a suspension of Standing Orders under Standing Order 159. A short time ago in the Dáil, the Taoiseach stated that in order for terms of reference to be adopted and a mandate to be given to the banking inquiry, the Government needed to have a majority on it and that the matter was now being considered by the Seanad. I call for a suspension of Standing Orders because this is a grave imposition on the Seanad by the Executive and is totally uncalled for. If any consideration is being given by the Seanad to giving the Government a majority, I as a Senator would like an explanation of it because I am not aware of it. I, therefore, formally propose under Standing Order 159 that the Cathaoirleach grant a suspension of Standing Orders so that we might discuss what the Taoiseach said in the Dáil and get clarity on what exactly the Taoiseach claims is happening in the Seanad in his determination to impose a Government majority against the democratic wishes of this Chamber.
Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)
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I am not agreeable.
6:55 pm
Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail)
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Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.
Tá
- Sean Barrett
- Thomas Byrne
- John Crown
- David Cullinane
- James Heffernan
- Marc MacSharry
- Paschal Mooney
- Denis O'Donovan
- Ned O'Sullivan
- Trevor Ó Clochartaigh
- Brian Ó Domhnaill
- Labhrás Ó Murchú
- Averil Power
- Jim Walsh
- Mary White
- Diarmuid Wilson
- Katherine Zappone
Níl
- Ivana Bacik
- Terry Brennan
- Colm Burke
- Eamonn Coghlan
- Paul Coghlan
- Michael Comiskey
- Martin Conway
- Maurice Cummins
- Jim D'Arcy
- Michael D'Arcy
- John Gilroy
- Aideen Hayden
- Imelda Henry
- Caít Keane
- Marie Moloney
- Mary Moran
- Michael Mullins
- Catherine Noone
- Susan O'Keeffe
- Pat O'Neill
- Feargal Quinn
- Tom Shehan
- Jillian van Turnhout