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Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: A Chathaoirligh, I should inform the Deputy we are not discussing that Bill. This is the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill. The Appropriations Bill has not yet been taken.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Is that not what we are discussing?

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: We are not; this is the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill. The Deputy is referring to the Appropriations Bill, which is later today.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister. I am ahead of my time. I will let my colleague come in.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Marian Harkin: I call Deputy Collins.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I do not always agree with the Minister but I thank him. It is a bad day you do not learn something.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Michael Collins: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. I give support to the Houses of the Oireachtas Bill because we have to look at the work and the amount of work staff do daily for TDs, Ministers, Senators and everybody here who is elected. I pay tribute to my own staff, who work extremely hard, and Independent Ireland staff, who have been very strong workers with us through the years. I heard...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Marian Harkin: I was happy to allow Deputy Phelan a little leeway as it is his last speech.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

John Paul Phelan: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I would like to join with other Members, as this may be my last opportunity to do so, to say a very sincere thank you to the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas at all levels right throughout this complex. During my long time here, I have always found them to be extremely helpful, supportive and courteous to me. They are an essential part of our democracy and we simply could not function...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Canney: On behalf of the House, I wish you the best of luck and health in your next steps. I call Deputy Phelan. He has three and a half minutes.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

John Paul Phelan: I thank the Chair. With his indulgence, I might have a little bit more than three and a half minutes. Like the previous speaker, this will be my last opportunity to speak after 22 and a half years as Member of one of the Houses of the Oireachtas. I have no issue with the legislation in question. It is largely to do with ensuring the Oireachtas commission can function in the next three...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Marian Harkin: Thank you, Deputy.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

John Paul Phelan: This debate is going to end early, Chair.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Marian Harkin: We still have to keep to the time.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

John Paul Phelan: I appreciate that. Let no more politicians - I do not doubt the sincerity of the Ceann Comhairle - say lessons have been learned. As soon as a politician or Minister says a lesson has been learned, the public thinks that is it, it is business as usual. Nothing will be learned and everything will continue as it was. That does harm to the public's belief in the public services we have and...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As the Minister said, this is largely a technical Bill providing for a three-year funding cycle that allows for the commission to fund the pay and pensions of elected Members of the House and their staff and other workings of the Oireachtas. I understand the urgency of that. I take this opportunity to pay tribute and to thank the staff here in the Houses of the Oireachtas. We all know this...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I support the Bill and recognise the need for the additional expenditure for the next three years, partly to reflect the increase in numbers here and the attendant costs that go with that. In what is possibly my last intervention in the House before I depart, I am glad to say that I was for a short time a member of the commission. I was grateful for the opportunity to see the inner...

Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with the United Arab Emirates: Motions (6 Nov 2024)

Question put and agreed to.