Civil Partnership Bill 2009 – Dáil Debate Resumes
Tags: bisexual, civil partnership, Civil Partnership Bill, gay, lesbian, marriage equality, same-sex relationships, Transgender The Dáil (Ireland’s lower house of parliament) is to resume its debate on the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 this Thursday, 21st January 2010. (It is scheduled to take place at some point between 10:30am and 3:30pm, although first to be debated in that time-slot will be the Adoption Bill. A more exact time will be confirmed shortly on the liveblog, linked below.)
To tune in:
- A Live Blog has again been set up here. The Live Blog is accessible for anyone to comment directly, or else automatically via Twitter when you include the hashtag “#cpbill“.
- The debate will be streamed live on the Oireachtas website here.
We’ll try to embed in this here post the stream to the live Oireachtas video to allow readers to follow the debate.
(Hope this works *fingers crossed*)
UPDATE (21st Jan 2010 at 1:20pm)
Message to LGBT Noise fans on Facebook is that the Debate will be taking place tonight, rather than this afternoon. Keep watching, however, as the Adoption Debate seems to be coming to a close, so the Civil Partnership Bill might yet get to be included. We should know then whether the CP Bill debate takes place now, as scheduled, or tonight.
UPDATE (21st Jan 2010 at 1:30pm)
The Civil Partnership Bill debate has now started. If you’re having trouble with the live stream here, it should be working okay on the LiveBlog.
Most previous posts on the topic of civil partnership and of marriage equality can be found here and here.
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The Dail tomorrow may not reach the civil partnership bill due to statements on Haiti and eagerness to speak on adoption bill
Oh really? Bah. I suppose it can’t all be about us!
(Although, I ask not why.. but why not! ; ))
Message to LGBT Noise fans on Facebook is that the Debate will be taking place tonight, rather than this afternoon. (Will update this post to reflect that.)
I’ve been told it resumes again on Tuesday 26th – not sure how accurate that is
Thanks, Ian – will keep an eye on the Dáil schedule tomorrow/over the weekend.
I was working and far from d’medja and d’technology today so does anyone know if there is a way of watching a recording of today’s debate again? Is it on the Youtube?
I’m not sure if there’s a recording of the full debate – will put out a question on Twitter.
In the meantime, the transcript is up already on the Oireachtas website (here), and you may be able to grab some of the contributions on YouTube – for example, the Labour party have put up Ruairí Quinn’s speech already – http://short.ie/ptxyj2 (and sounds like it was a powerful one, too).
I wasn’t able to listen to the whole thing earlier, either, so I’ll be likewise catching up!
And Twitter delivers! (I’m tellin’ ya, y’can’t bate it.)
Instant reply from MamanPoulet is:
there is a live experimental playback feature on oireachtas.ie – the debate should be up in a few days all going well : )
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keep an eye to this page http://bit.ly/4nYUfj
Heads up, y’all: Second Stage debate of the Civil Partnership Bill resumes (again) on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 between 11:29am & 1:30pm (last of 3 items) #cpbill
Also (via Labour party’s LGBT group):
If you missed the Civil Partnership bill yesterday you can now watch it online at http://bit.ly/7YJdvW and http://bit.ly/7MdNeq
[...] Last Thursday’s debate was cut a little short due to the addition of statements on Haiti by members of the house being included in the time-slot. [...]