Seanad Éireann debate -
Thursday, 5 Mar 2009

Vol. 194 No. 7

Investment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2009: Motion for Earlier Signature.

Senator Diarmuid Wilson

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 Investment of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2009 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to her.

Question put.

The Seanad divided: Tá, 25; Níl, 13.

Tá

• Brady, Martin.
• Butler, Larry.
• Callely, Ivor.
• Cannon, Ciaran.
• Carty, John.
• Cassidy, Donie.
• Corrigan, Maria.
• Daly, Mark.
• de Búrca, Déirdre.
• Ellis, John.
• Feeney, Geraldine.
• Glynn, Camillus.
• Hanafin, John.
• Keaveney, Cecilia.
• Leyden, Terry.
• MacSharry, Marc.
• Ó Domhnaill, Brian.
• Ó Murchú, Labhrás.
• O’Brien, Francis.
• O’Malley, Fiona.
• O’Sullivan, Ned.
• Ormonde, Ann.
• Phelan, Kieran.
• White, Mary M.
• Wilson, Diarmuid.

Níl

• Bradford, Paul.
• Burke, Paddy.
• Buttimer, Jerry.
• Coghlan, Paul.
• Cummins, Maurice.
• Doherty, Pearse.
• Fitzgerald, Frances.
• McFadden, Nicky.
• Norris, David.
• O’Reilly, Joe.
• Regan, Eugene.
• Ross, Shane.
• Twomey, Liam.

Tellers: Tá, Senators Camillus Glynn and Diarmuid Wilson; Níl, Senators Maurice Cummins and Liam Twomey.

Question declared carried.

An Cathaoirleach

When is it proposed to sit again?

Senator Donie Cassidy

Ag 2.30 p.m. Dé Máirt seo chugainn.