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Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage

2022-06-15 Carried Seanad Éireann Division Question put: "That the Bill do now pass."
27Tá
7Níl

What the debate was about

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Amendment Nos. 33 and 34 replace references to "next of kin" with references to "close relative" while amendment No. 36 creates the new definition of "close relative". The effect of these amendments in Part 4 is that the qualifying relative who could request information about a deceased relevant relative would no longer just be the individual who is the next of kin of that deceased relative but rather any relative from the list of close relatives we define, namely, a mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, nephew or niece of the deceased person.

If the individual who is the next of kin, for example the brother, does not wish to seek information about the deceased relative the Bill in its current form precludes other relatives from seeking information.

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Key terms by TF-IDF across 2,985 words from 7 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.

Tellers

Tellers: Tá, Senators Seán Kyne and Robbie Gallagher; Níl, Senators Fintan Warfield and Lynn Boylan.

Other votes in this debate

QuestionResultTá–Níl
Amendment put: Lost 7–26

Tá

27
  • FF Fianna Fáil 11
  • FG Fine Gael 11
  • IND Independent 3
  • GP Green Party 2
FF Catherine Ardagh Industrial and Commercial Panel
FF Denis O'Donovan Agricultural Panel
FF Diarmuid Wilson Administrative Panel
FF Eugene Murphy Agricultural Panel
FF Gerry Horkan Industrial and Commercial Panel
FF Mary Fitzpatrick Nominated by the Taoiseach
FF Ned O'Sullivan Labour Panel
FF Ollie Crowe Industrial and Commercial Panel
FF Pat Casey Labour Panel
FF Paul Daly Agricultural Panel
FF Robbie Gallagher Labour Panel
FG Aisling Dolan Nominated by the Taoiseach
FG Emer Currie Nominated by the Taoiseach
FG Garret Ahearn Administrative Panel
FG Jerry Buttimer Labour Panel
FG Joe O'Reilly Labour Panel
FG Maria Byrne Agricultural Panel
FG Martin Conway Administrative Panel
FG Paddy Burke Agricultural Panel
FG Regina Doherty Nominated by the Taoiseach
FG Seán Kyne Cultural and Educational Panel
FG Tim Lombard Agricultural Panel
IND Gerard P. Craughwell Labour Panel
IND Sharon Keogan Industrial and Commercial Panel
IND Victor Boyhan Agricultural Panel
GP Pauline O'Reilly Labour Panel
GP Pippa Hackett Agricultural Panel

Níl

7
  • SF Sinn Féin 4
  • LAB Labour 3
SF Fintan Warfield Cultural and Educational Panel
SF Lynn Boylan Agricultural Panel
SF Niall Ó Donnghaile Administrative Panel
SF Paul Gavan Labour Panel
LAB Annie Hoey Agricultural Panel
LAB Marie Sherlock Labour Panel
LAB Mark Wall Industrial and Commercial Panel

Party shown is the one each member held on 2022-06-15, frozen by a dated join — not their party today. The Oireachtas API publishes no date of birth and returns an empty gender field for every member in this period, so no age or gender breakdown is shown.