I will just keep talking through everyone else's amendments. I do not mind.
On prevailing side: this member voted with the winning side in 11 of 342 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IND | Independent | 1,699 | 2020-01-21 – 2026-07-16 |
| CC | Ceann Comhairle / Chair | 9 | 2025-03-19 – 2025-05-07 |
Membership spells on record: IND 2016-04-25–2020-03-29 · IND 2020-03-30–2025-01-29 · IND 2025-01-29–present
I will just keep talking through everyone else's amendments. I do not mind.
When you took your chair, seven more people came in. Seven more people when you sat in your chair. The doors were still allowing people in.
That is what I said. When you sat in the chair. That is exactly what I said.
Sorry. Two and one. She sat in the Chair. The bell was rung.
Exactly.
Niall, you know quite well-----
Niall, you know quite well that this is an unfair application.
You know quite well.
You know quite well. And do you know what?
I would stand up for this rule just as much for Government as I would for us, because it is fair procedure, end of story.
What is actually being pointed out there is that something is not in order today, which means that every time I have been turned away from that door, that is not in order.
I am not looking at Senator Mullen, I am-----
That is what I said, so every time I have been turned away from that door, the Leas-Chathaoirleach is telling me that Standing Orders did not support that.
Time is just abstract.
Time is just abstract.
I also acknowledge that we agreed that the standing order that was read into the record has to be considered in the round with the other standing orders, as they are related.
Notwithstanding the technical nature of the amendment, we need to understand the technical part as Senator Boyhan said. I seek clarification on a number of points. There are children aged 16 and 17 in Oberstown. If such a child's capacity is in question, who is responsible for deciding whether that child requires an assessment of capacity? Would it be the parent of the child, who might be quite active? Would it be the place of detention of a 16- or 17-year-old? Who is involved in the picture when somebody is in a r…
I am glad to hear parental consent is still involved if a child is in a place of detention, when capacity is questioned or if the child needs an assessment. If it is challenged in court, is the child involuntarily detained while the matter is in court or does that pause the capacity assessment until the court deals with the issue? I wish to ensure the child is not treated or detained under a certain thing while the case is being heard in court. I am wondering what order that goes in.
I support this amendment. It is outside the space of this Bill but chemical restraint is widely used, even with regard to people's age and mental health, so it can affect people who end up in nursing homes or long-term wards in hospitals. I have my own experience of somebody being medicated because they were singing at night. When we look at this in terms of the medical constraint of a person's behaviour, it was being used in that situation because the nurses did not want the other people to be woken up by somebody…
I welcome the Minister of State's statement that the use of chemical restraint has reduced. I wonder what a health professional, whether a doctor or whoever else, who is in charge of an individual considers to be a chemical restraint. In some cases, it may be very obvious that chemical restraint is being used and it is noted as that because there is a very clear risk to the person's well-being or to other people or there is an outward physical manifestation that causes a risk, maybe in the person's environment, and…