Sitting Arrangements: Motion

Senator Maurice Cummins

I move:

That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders relative to Public Business, the Seanad shall meet on Monday, 22nd December 2014 at noon and the following arrangements shall apply:

(1) (a) Standing Orders 29 and 30 shall stand suspended;

(b) there shall be no Order of Business;

(c) subject to completion of Committee Stage, the business to be taken shall be confined to Report and Fifth Stages of the Water Services Bill 2014.

(2) No other business shall be taken, unless the Seanad shall otherwise order on a motion made by the Leader of the House or such other Senator as he may authorise in that behalf.

Senator Darragh O'Brien

I ask the Leader, at this late stage, to agree to have an Order of Business on Monday.

Question put:

The Seanad divided: Tá, 31; Níl, 21.

Tá

Bacik, Ivana.
Brennan, Terry.
Burke, Colm.
Coghlan, Eamonn.
Coghlan, Paul.
Comiskey, Michael.
Conway, Martin.
Cummins, Maurice.
D'Arcy, Jim.
D'Arcy, Michael.
Gilroy, John.
Hayden, Aideen.
Henry, Imelda.
Higgins, Lorraine.
Keane, Cáit.
Kelly, John.
Landy, Denis.
Moloney, Marie.
Moran, Mary.
Mulcahy, Tony.
Mullins, Michael.
Naughton, Hildegarde.
Noone, Catherine.
O'Brien, Mary Ann.
O'Donnell, Marie-Louise.
O'Keeffe, Susan.
O'Neill, Pat.
Sheahan, Tom.
van Turnhout, Jillian.
Whelan, John.
Zappone, Katherine.

Níl

Barrett, Sean D.
Byrne, Thomas.
Craughwell, Gerard P.
Cullinane, David.
Daly, Mark.
Healy Eames, Fidelma.
Leyden, Terry.
MacSharry, Marc.
Mooney, Paschal.
Norris, David.
Ó Clochartaigh, Trevor.
Ó Domhnaill, Brian.
Ó Murchú, Labhrás.
O'Brien, Darragh.
O'Donovan, Denis.
O'Sullivan, Ned.
Quinn, Feargal.
Reilly, Kathryn.
Walsh, Jim.
White, Mary M.
Wilson, Diarmuid.

Tellers: Tá, Senators Paul Coghlan and Aideen Hayden; Níl, Senators Ned O'Sullivan and Diarmuid Wilson.

Question declared carried.

Seanad Éireann díospóireacht - Friday, 19 Dec 2014