The legislation this House will debate today and tomorrow is emergency legislation to protect our citizens and to ensure that we can get through the next six weeks. An area I feel needs to be looked at, and I raised it in the previous Dáil with the then Minister with responsibility for local government, unfortunately to little avail, is the area of online voting - not electronic voting - and the necessity for a proper debate in the Houses to recognise that if we were bounced into an election in the next year, we would really have an issue with voting by way of pencil and paper at polling stations.
Will the Leader ask the Minister for Health to have this process expedited in order that we support these 30 people?
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Tellers: Tá, Senators Robbie Gallagher and Seán Kyne; Níl, Senators Sharon Keogan and Victor Boyhan.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–28 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–28 |
| Question put: "That the motion be agreed to." | Carried | 27–11 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–26 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–26 |
| Question put: "That the motion be agreed to." | Carried | 26–14 |
| Question put: | Carried | 25–13 |
| Question put: "That amendment No. 10 is hereby negatived, in respect of each of the sections undisposed of the section is hereby agreed to, the Title is hereby agreed to and the Bill is accordingly reported to the House without amendment." | Carried | 24–11 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 11–28 |
| Question put: "That the motion be agreed to." | Carried | 28–11 |
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