Results 41-60 of 120 for going forward speaker:Paddy Burke

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Dec 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...a business closes down there is no protection for the sole trader or the self-employed person. There are protections for a person who is involved in a company or who owns a company. The company can go into liquidation or voluntary liquidation but there is no such protection for the sole trader. In 2003, an Act provided that two weeks pay per year of service had to be paid for each...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...amendments. This Bill is amending the original Act. The original Act planned for public meetings anyway, so this Bill would only add meetings that are online. This Bill, which has been brought forward to amend the existing Act, is going to introduce online meetings and we would have public meetings under the original Act which has been in place for many years.

Seanad: Reopening Ireland (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...which downsized or eventually closed and had to pay redundancy to their staff. The Redundancy Payments Act 2003 mandated that an employer must pay two weeks wages per year of service to all staff, going back to whenever they started, which could be back in the 1970s, 1980s or whenever. The result is that many businesspeople, sole traders or self-employed people are now facing the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Second Stage (25 Nov 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...to An Bord Pleanála will be taken into consideration and that whatever it requires will be dealt with, maybe not in this Bill, but somewhere because there is a crossover with the other Bill that will come forward. As a result of today's Bill there will be a change in work practices because as more people work from home, less office space is required but garden offices will be...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2020: Second Stage (18 Nov 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...State to the House and congratulate him. I have not had the opportunity before this to wish him well with his portfolio. I agree with Senator Norris that the Bill is a bit like the curate's egg: good in parts and not so good in other parts. I thank Senator McDowell for bringing it forward. It has been a good debate but, at the end of the day, I hope in the 12-month timeframe up to the...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2020: Second Stage (18 Nov 2020)

Paddy Burke: The Minister of State has a lot of food for thought regarding how we should go forward and many issues to consider. I wish him well over the next 12 months and I look forward to him coming back to the House before Christmas next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Nov 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...of nearly €4 million. At what point does the airport break even? Does the airport still need to reach 500,000 or 800,000 passengers to get to that point or does Mr. Gilmore still see losses going forward for the next number of years up to 2024 to 2025?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Recycling Policy (6 Nov 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...types of plastic. We all think that plastic is just plastic. However, some plastics can be recycled and others cannot. What happens to the plastic that cannot be recycled? Where does it go? Does it go to landfill? A number of representations have been made to me on the recycling of builders' plastic, such as that used to wrap pallets of cement or blocks. This type of plastic can...

Seanad: Railway Safety (Reporting and Investigation of Serious Accidents, Accidents and Incidents Involving Certain Railways) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...level crossings have been upgraded to automated level crossings. There is one in my area, Kilnageer crossing, between Belcarra and Castlebar, where a tragedy nearly happened a number of months ago. The community are up in arms in relation to work that should be carried out. They are looking for this to be either automated or the implementation of a scheme the council have put forward...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...Bill. In terms of landlords, we cannot have landlords without tenants or tenants without landlords. Landlords have played a very important role for many years and I hope that they play a role going forward. Quite a lot of landlords have left the market over the past five or six years. Why have more landlords left than entered the industry? We should debate the issue. In terms of...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...her the best of luck in the coming years. I have no doubt that she will do a magnificent job. She did that in the past in another portfolio and this one will be no problem to her. The previous Government deserves great credit in pulling everything together in a very short space of time during which the world was hit with this virus. Thousands of people lost their jobs and it was great...

Seanad: An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19) 2020: An Dara Céim - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Mar 2020)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Tánaiste to the House. I congratulate him, the Taoiseach, the other members of the Government and all the political parties and Independents on the very constructive proposals put forward and on demonstrating the speed at which the legislation can pass through both Houses of the Oireachtas.I express my sympathy to the people who have died in these trying times. They are...

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Paddy Burke: ...the Order Paper is produced, and see the day-to-day running of the Seanad, the Library and Research Service and all of the services we take for granted, we can see that a lot of hard work has to go into all of that. We finish on some nights at 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. but there is an Order Paper the following morning, and the same applies to amendment for Bills and all of that sort of work. We...

Seanad: Local Government Funding: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Paddy Burke: ..., now Taoiseach, came to the House and took the debate and said that he would look into it. He addressed the issue and councillors will qualify for their contributory pension now that their PRSI goes towards it. In light of the Moorhead report, the Government should pay councillors immediately. I think they deserve it. It is acknowledged that they will get an additional €8,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Irish Banking Culture Board: Discussion (1 Oct 2019)

Paddy Burke: ...committee. Were there any objections from any of the banks that have signed up to this? Does any bank want a different format, or were they all in agreement that this is the way it should be going forward?

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Paddy Burke: Amendment No. 40 is a huge amendment. Will it be enacted straight away? If the Bill is passed, it will have to go back to the other House to be passed into law. Is it the case that the full effect will not come into being until the Minister so prescribes which could be years after the Bill is enacted? In Castlebar, where there are three lakes, the mink have killed all the swans which come...

Seanad: Local Government Rates and Other Matters Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Paddy Burke: I wonder how a situation such as that outlined in section 6 might arise. How would it work in reality? When the manager of the local authority brings forward his estimates for the end of the financial year or the year going forward and the councillors debate the estimates or the budget and decide to increase or reduce the rate by a certain amount, would the direction be given at that stage?...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Paddy Burke: I congratulate everyone who put their names forward for the local elections and the European elections. It takes great courage to put one's name before the public. I congratulate those who were successful and wish the best of luck to those who were not successful on this occasion. I support the call for a debate on reform of the electoral register. We have heard many issues raised in...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Paddy Burke: .... The farmer on whose land the windmills are operating to this day informs me that red grouse are nesting under the windmills. Many other species were also supposed to have been displaced. I may go into the Bill in more detail and bring forward an amendment to strengthen the proposed new section 5(b) of the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000 which gives to the Minister of the day the power...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: I compliment An Post on its decision to go all electric with its postal delivery fleet throughout the country by 2022. By 2020, electrification will be extended to the cities of Cork, Galway, Limerick, Kilkenny and Waterford. This is a great decision by the company. By the end of 2019, Dublin city postal deliveries will be all be made by electric vehicles and electric bicycles. I also...