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Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Boyle asked me to explain that he has had to attend a committee meeting but will return as soon as he can. Is it within the bounds of permissibility that his amendment can be moved by another Deputy?

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In tabling amendment No. 48 along with Deputy Boyle, my main intention is to emphasise that the only debarment to making a complaint by the consumer in this instance is where the consumer has initiated legal action or complaint, and the due process is either attending to or has already addressed the issue involved. The concern relating to the construction of section 57BX(3)(a) is that the...

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I listened to the Minister of State's response to Deputies' arguments with interest because I believed with some justification that he understood and was sympathetic to those arguments. Deputy Richard Bruton, however, has correctly focused on the point of the plurality of the words "the conduct" complained of. It is no longer the central hook on which the Minister of State hangs his argument,...

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister of State reassure us of that?

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I move amendment No. 48: In page 40, lines 41 and 42, after "proceedings" to insert "brought by the consumer".

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Report Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have tabled amendments Nos. 130 and 131. They seek to have written into the sections identified that the complainant must have exhausted all dispute resolution options available under a credit union's rules save the referral of the matter to arbitration or to the District Court for resolution. These amendments, with the earlier ones already mentioned, are a further safeguard and recognition...

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In light of the unfolding scandals at Allied Irish Banks, when does the Taoiseach expect publication of the investment intermediaries (amendment) Bill?

Financial Services Regulation. (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Minister of State advise the House if he has any concerns about the recent revelations regarding Allied Irish Banks, all of which have arisen as a result of the activities of whistleblowers and not as a result of the regulatory authority's work in uncovering bad practice, illegal activity or whatever may be the case within any of these institutions? Would it not give rise to further...

Financial Services Regulation. (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Given that fines and penalties imposed on financial institutions inevitably make their way to the consumer, is the only way to root out these practices not to make the people responsible for drawing them up and for ordering, arranging and conducting them, individually accountable for the abuses? Otherwise they will be covered against personal penalties in perpetuity. The financial...

Financial Services Regulation. (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ——are not bearing any serious burden by virtue of the penalties that are likely to apply, just as happened with the DIRT situation. Should penalties not be applied to the functionaries of the banks? Is that not the only way of rooting this out?

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Bill 2003: Motion to Recommit. (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I, too, support the proposal to recommit the Bill. The substantive amendment tabled by the Minister which we did not have an opportunity to address on Committee Stage is reason enough to recommit. Unfortunately, a previous proposal was rejected. Much has unfolded since we last discussed this legislation. When I raised a related matter with the Minister on the back of a Private Notice Question...

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I seek the guidance of the Ceann Comhairle in addressing the issue mentioned by Deputy Richard Bruton. The Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service, which is the substantive body entrusted with addressing matters pertaining to the public service, has now been gagged by virtue of the Government members' voting down a proposal by eight votes to six.

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It closes off the only avenue through which this matter can be dealt with in these Houses. I seek the Chair's guidance on how Members may now address the issue of decentralisation and all that entails.

Official Engagements. (1 Jun 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visits to EU capitals and his discussions with EU Heads of Government recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16267/04]

Written Answers — Health Board Staff: Health Board Staff (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 263: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) who is unable to work here due to the fact that the Irish Medical Council will not accept their medical certificate renewal from the Iraqi Medical Council due to the current political crisis in that country; and if this person will be allowed to continue their...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the denial of visas to persons (details supplied). [15211/04]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Health (Amendment) Bill is not the work of a reforming Government. It is retrograde because it seeks to abolish democratic accountability for the delivery of health services in this jurisdiction. It is incredible that such a proposition has been made separately from the health Bill. As I said, the proposition and the Bill should, at the very least, have been presented in tandem. Such an...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I will always try to do so. As someone who was born in the hospital, I am not ashamed to say the umbilical cord has never been cut. I am as attached to the hospital as everyone else in my community. We will always struggle to reinstate a level of service that will lift the dark cloud from over the lives of our communities. The reality in our community is that infants have been lost during...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Another amendment in my name which has been ruled out of order sought to insert a sunset clause. It proposed to bring to an end and at a specific date the objectionable and intolerable situation to which the Bill will give rise. I do not want such circumstances to start and certainly want them to end at the earliest possible date. The Minister has said that it is "scheduled" for January 2005....

Health (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (25 May 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Ms Brennan had a different view. Why ignore her as she was consistent?