Vol. 785 No. 3
I move:
That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Education (Welfare) Act 2000 to impose mandatory requirements on the board of management of recognised schools to adopt counter bullying and preventative measures which are to be implemented by the board of management and to direct the Minister for Education to introduce regulations based on existing guidelines and to ensure these regulations are reviewed.
Is the Bill opposed?
Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.
I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
If the Ceann Comhairle does not want to listen to me, I will say it anyway. Will the Ceann Comhairle desist from talking about me to the national media?
Would the Deputy mind addressing the Chair? I ask him to resume his seat.
Will he desist from insulting me in the national media?
Will the Deputy resume his seat?
If Deputy Flanagan sits down I will call him.
Let me make my point.
Please sit down and I will call you. Let me make it quite clear that when the time for the Order of Business expires, it is my job to proceed with the business. I was doing so, and in the middle of it no one is entitled to start shouting a point of order which has nothing to do with the business I am reaching. If the Deputy has a point of order, now that I am finished, I will listen to it. What is Deputy Flanagan's point of order?
My point of order is this morning I got up waiting to talk to various------
What is the Deputy's point of order?
May I speak without interruption?
Was Deputy Flanagan still in his pyjamas?
Please allow the Deputy to make his point of order. Please proceed, Deputy.
I will proceed if it is without interruption, but it has not been so far.
Please proceed, Deputy.
If it is without interruption. The point I wish to make is, this morning when I got up I received a phone-----
This is a farce. Am I not allowed to speak? I was elected to this House and I am not being allowed to speak. Every time I attempt to speak-----
Will the Deputy please proceed?
-----they insult me and cut across me.
Please proceed.
The point I wish to make is to ask the Ceann Comhairle to desist from making comments to the national media about the way I and other Members of the House dress.
That is not a point of order.
This morning I received a call from my wife to tell me my children-----
Am I not allowed to make a point in the House?
Excuse me, Deputy, please sit down.
My children are being teased because of the comments the Ceann Comhairle is making about me.
Please be seated. I did not make any-----
I want an apology. The Ceann Comhairle's comments are making-----
Please sit down.
-----my life and my family's life difficult.
I am going to suspend the sitting.
Before recommending business, I want to repeat what I stated prior to suspending the sitting. I did not in any article mention any Deputy in relation to his or her dress code.
