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Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: An bhfuil éinne eile ag iarraidh teacht isteach? Níl. The Minister to conclude.

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputy Kerrane for her contribution. We will have the opportunity to discuss the provisions of the Bill in depth tomorrow, in respect of the original two proposals which are, as we know, to introduce a right for women to defer maternity leave for up to a year if they become ill during their maternity leave and allow them recover for the particular serious illness they are facing but...

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 6.09 p.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 6.15 p.m. Sitting suspended at 6.09 p.m. and resumed at 6.15 p.m.

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Question put.

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The division will be taken tomorrow, immediately prior to Committee Stage of the Bill.

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (22 Oct 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move: That, pursuant to Standing Order 233(2), Standing Order 187 is modified to provide that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Maternity Protection Bill 2024, that it has power to make amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing subject matter of the Bill, in order to provide for: amendments to the Employment Equality Act 1998, to restrict the use of...

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I will wait a minute before calling on the Minister of State. There is another group of speakers indicated who are not here. I know they have been caught unawares because the debate has moved quickly. I will proceed to the Minister of State in the next minute or two if nobody comes in.

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputies for their contributions. There is very little I can disagree with in anything they have said.

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: So you are not proceeding.

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I will say the point critically here. We are at the end of a political cycle and we can see the quietness around Leinster House today. This is a three-party coalition. There is no commitment in the programme for Government on Seanad reform. It is not there. Critically from all of our perspectives, it is important as we look towards our manifestos for the upcoming general election to...

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The fundamental tenet of this Bill, which is to continue the exclusion of people who do not have degrees in terms of electing the Seanad, is completely and utterly wrong and indefensible. It is outstanding really that this Government feels comfortable bringing forward such a Bill. It is antidemocratic, elitist and archaic. There was nothing in the Minister of State's speech that defended...

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Denise Mitchell: Unfortunately, the Government has missed a huge opportunity with this Bill. It has taken what the Supreme Court found and interpreted it in the narrowest of ways. Seanad reform has long been talked about, but the Government has done all the talking and taken no action. Let us be honest; it only moved on this Bill because it was bounced into it. We in Sinn Féin are not in a position...

Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (22 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Under the Constitution, the national Parliament consists of the President, the directly elected Dáil and an indirectly elected nominated Seanad. The Dáil is the paramount body on proposals for legislation, public expenditure and taxation. The Seanad has specific delaying and deliberative functions. In terms of their respective roles, the Dáil is stated, in Article 15.1 of...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Martin Heydon: I thank the Deputies for their contributions on this important topic. I will start by answering some of the points raised. Deputy Kelly queried the mechanism around this debate and, to put on the record, in summary and further to my earlier statement it is to allow the Department to provide the monies allocated in budget 2025 it is necessary to comply with the technical requirement under...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: Update it.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Martin Heydon: That is why we are here and doing this. I want to return to the broader point raised by Deputy Kelly, which a number of his colleagues in the Labour Party raised previously, that maybe we should take some of that money off and that there are other sports-----

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: I did not say that.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Martin Heydon: That is a point I picked up. I know some of Deputy Kelly's colleagues in the Labour Party previously have said the money should be taken from this fund for other sports. It misses a broader point. The Government does not treat horse or greyhound racing as a sport. I am not a Minister with the Department of sport; I am a Minister with the Department of agriculture. For very good reason,...