I ask the Deputy Leader to request the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, as Cabinet Minister responsible for local government, to come before the House to engage with Senators on local government funding. Will the Deputy Leader ask the Minister for Health and the Minister of State with responsibility for older people to attend the House to debate this matter? Senators, including Senator Gavan, asked for a debate on Shannon Airport.
Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile raised the issue of Emma DeSouza. Senator Gavan raised the issue of Shannon Airport and I have dealt with this through the Private Members' debate. The Senator is correct that we must have a debate on local government funding.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 6,872 words from 32 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Senators Alice-Mary Higgins and Frances Black; Níl, Senators Robbie Gallagher and Seán Kyne..
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–24 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–24 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 11–23 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–26 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 15–26 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–26 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–25 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–25 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 14–25 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 15–24 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–24 |
Party shown is the one each member held on 2020-09-25, 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.