I understand that the Minister is saying that it is already implied. Nonetheless, I will reserve the right to bring back an amendment on Report Stage. It is not just about the obligation being there but also the weighting. It is one thing to have the obligation there and it is another to have the mechanisms to ensure that it is given proper consideration, that it does not just pass on an assumed obligation within a contract but that proper weighting and consideration is given to the capacity of different contractin…

My colleague, Senator Ruane, spoke about the case of Seán Binder, which is being heard today. These issues were debated in the past two weeks. Ireland stopped its bilateral search and rescue in the Mediterranean Sea. Then we joined Operation Sophia, which then stopped doing search and rescue. We warned that would happen because the then Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Paul Kehoe, had told us the priority would become security rather than humanitarian purposes. Those who step…

The Taoiseach campaigned, as did I, for the retention of the Seanad. He will remember that the message in that campaign was "Open it; don't close it." While we have had discussion of the 1979 referendum, we have two referendums that need to be vindicated. It is vital that the 1979 referendum on the expansion of the university franchise be implemented. However, it is not acceptable that the 2013 referendum, which was won on a promise of reform, would then go in the queue and wait a further 40 years for those changes…

We need real leadership and for Ireland to take a stand. We should be saying not just that we will export vaccines but that we will allow people to manufacture them. This is a human rights test for our time, as indeed are the actions happening on Europe's borders. I ask the Taoiseach to show rights leadership at this time. Regarding all the vision we might have, I appeal to the Taoiseach. He has an incredibly important role and he has eight more months in it. I know he has the vision and he has had the courage in t…

That is not agreed. I think the debate today will be efficient. We have had lengthy discussion on it. I think that amendments Nos. 1, 2, 8 and 9 should be taken separately for policy reasons. They have a slightly different remit. There is also the pragmatic reason, that I know that a number of the Senators proposing them are on their way to the Chamber. The other factor is that amendment No. 1 relates to those rights of way previously acquired by prescription. Amendment No. 1 is seeking to avoid what has been descr…

I do not think I need a seconder for this. Is there a response to it? The proposal is from the Chair.

I am not agreeing to it. Is there any objection to that? Amendment No. 2 is a technical amendment on the name of the Prescription Act, to be clear about what we mean by the Act of 1832. Amendment No. 1 relates to rights of way acquired by prescription. Amendments Nos. 8 and 9 relate to what we have heard from the Minister on Committee Stage, which is the complicated intersection between-----

I am suggesting that amendments Nos. 1 and 2 should be grouped but that amendments Nos. 8 and 9 should be taken separately from Nos. 1 and 2, so not together in this grouping.

For efficiency of debate, I am happy to split them into two blocks rather than to have one block.

I will move amendment No. 1.

I am waiting for Senator Boylan. Is it possible for me to speak to the amendment?

I need a seconder for this. The Minister of State will be aware that the key issues here are issues that are probably-----

I can move it.

I second the amendment.

It is grouped with amendment No. 3, so you have to speak to it at the same time.

You have to finish discussing-----

I will be brief. There is an amendment that I had intended to introduce but I have not done so. I support amendment No. 4. These issues have been highlighted in terms of the other rights that have been acquired that could potentially be extinguished, which we do not want to be the case. There are plans to address these issues in the review that is planned for next year. While I welcome the Minister of State's indication of the Government's intention to engage in that review with interested Members of the Oireachtas…

It relates to this amendment, which is in the section that sets out the periods of 60 and 30 years after the land-----

Those two periods are set out in the text of amendment No. 3. I am highlighting this as an issue arising from the amendment, which I hope might be dealt with in the review.

My apologies. I am looking at the wrong one. That is my fault. I will speak very briefly when I speak to amendment No. 7, so.