I came in here with the intention of calling for a debate specifically on cancer services, the national cancer strategy and cancer in general because it is the daffodil period. First, I endorse what my friend and colleague, Senator McCarthy, has just said about the drugs strategy and the need, in particular, to ensure that people who use drugs are also heard in this conversation. This is the same as the way in which policies of checking people’s drugs at festivals and so on may be well intentioned but are hopelessly naive and this undermines the effort to curb drugs in our society with all the chaos that causes for people, not just here, but in the places abroad from where these drugs are sourced.
Senator Fitzpatrick also spoke about the drugs committee, as its Vice Chair. Senator Collins spoke about a school in Dromcollogher being on a main road.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 5,237 words from 24 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Senators Alice-Mary Higgins and Frances Black; Níl, s: Tá, Senators Alice-Mary Higgins and Frances Black.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: "That the Order of Business be agreed to". | Carried | 24–19 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–31 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 16–28 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 17–25 |
| Question put: | Carried | 26–16 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 17–23 |
Party shown is the one each member held on 2026-03-19, 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.