CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Let me finish, please. Senator Gallagher has not contributed thus far on this particular part of the debate.
Jerry Buttimer
Rhetoric & votes →On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 634 of 639 decisive votes (0 abstentions excluded). Read it as a government-or-opposition indicator rather than a measure of influence — the figure is near 100% for members supporting the government of the day and near 0% for those opposing it.
Party over time
This is the point of the site: contributions keep the party held on the day, not the one held now.
| Party | Recorded as | Contributions | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC | Ceann Comhairle / Chair | 2,937 | 2020-07-09 – 2024-11-06 |
| FG | Fine Gael | 1,385 | 2020-03-20 – 2026-09-24 |
Membership spells on record: FG 2007-07-23–2011-04-25 · FG 2011-02-25–2016-03-09 · FG 2016-03-10–2020-03-29 · FG 2020-03-30–2024-11-29 · FG 2024-11-29–present
Record
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Senator-----
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Senator Gallagher.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Speak through the Chair, first of all.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
I ask the Senator to conclude his remarks on section 68. I will then bring in Senator Ruane. We are on section 68.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Senator Craughwell, you are a long-standing Member of the House and know full well that no interjections are allowed. The Senator should not be raising the temperature of the debate by any heckling of the Member in possession. Senator Gallagher, please, on section 68.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Senator Craughwell-----
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Senator Craughwell, you are well able to-----
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
We are on section 68. Senator Craughwell has not indicated he wants to speak. Senator Gallagher is speaking. Let him conclude his remarks. I will then call Senator Ruane. I call the Government Chief Whip, Senator Gallagher.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Point of order from Senator Ward.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
The Senator on a point of order.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Let the Senator-----
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
You are. Go ahead.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
If and when Senator Ruane does that, I will answer and determine the question at that particular time.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Senator Gallagher will conclude and I will then bring in Senator Ruane. I will bring the Senator in after Senator Gallagher.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
I call Senator Ruane. Go ahead.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
I will chair the proceedings, thank you.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
As am I. Go ahead.
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
I am not taking a point of order right now. Thank you. I heard Senator Ruane's earlier intervention around Standing Order 55. I have been following the debate. I have been here for a piece of the debate. To Members who are not familiar with Standing Order 55, a Senator may claim to move that the question be now put, as Senator Ruane has referenced. In this case, the question involved is the question on the section and unless it appears to me, as Cathaoirleach, that the closure motion "is an infringement of the righ…
CC
2023-12-13 · Seanad
Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
We are not going back, Senator.