Request to Suspend Standing Orders
Full council, 23 July 2020: a named vote.
For 23, Against 16, Abstained 0.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: No overall control. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (23)
- Angela Dobbins (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Brian Tierney (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Jason Barr (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Jim McKeever (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- John Boyle (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Martin Reilly (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Mary Durkan (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Rory Farrell (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Sean Mooney (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Shauna Cusack (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Steven Edwards (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Alderman Allan Bresland (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman David Ramsey (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman Graham Warke (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman Hilary McClintock (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman Keith Kerrigan (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman Maurice Devenney (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman Ryan McCready (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Philip McKinney (Alliance Party)
- Rachael Ferguson (Alliance Party)
- Alderman Andrew McKane (Ulster Unionist Party)
- Alderman Darren Guy (Ulster Unionist Party)
- Sean Carr (Independent)
Against (16)
- Aileen Mellon (Sinn Féin)
- Christopher Jackson (Sinn Féin)
- Dan Kelly (Sinn Féin)
- Kieran McGuire (Sinn Féin)
- Michael Cooper (Sinn Féin)
- Michaela Boyle (Sinn Féin)
- Patricia Logue (Sinn Féin)
- Paul Fleming (Sinn Féin)
- Ruairi McHugh (Sinn Féin)
- Sandra Duffy (Sinn Féin)
- Tina Burke (Sinn Féin)
- Gary Donnelly (Independent)
- Paul Gallagher (Independent)
- Eamonn McCann (People Before Profit)
- Shaun Harkin (People Before Profit)
- Anne McCloskey (Aontú)
From the minutes
uncillor Donnelly for discussion. The Mayor advised Members that the suspension of Standing Orders required a Qualified Majority Vote. Voting on the request to suspend Standing Orders was as follows: For:- Aldermen Bresland, Devenney, Guy, Kerrigan, McClintock, McCready, McKane, Ramsey and Warke; Councillors J Barr, J Boyle, Carr, Cusack, Dobbins, Durkan, Edwards, Farrell, Ferguson, McKeever, McKinney, Mooney, Reilly and Tierney (23). Against:- Councillors M Boyle, Burke, Cooper, Donnelly, Duffy, Fleming, Gallagher, Harkin, Jackson, Kelly, Logue, McCann, McCloskey, McGuire, McHugh and Mellon (16). Abstentions:- 0. The Chief Executive advised that the proposal could not be carried as it did not meet the required qualified majority threshold of 80 percent.
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