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Seanad: Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (28 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: Amendment No. 4 is a technical amendment intended to avoid doubt. It stems from an administrative oversight concerning the commencement of certain sections of the Aer Lingus Act 2004, which provides, among other things, for the establishment of the employee share ownership schemes. Based on the authority provided for in the Act, shares representing 9.9% of the issued share capital of Aer...

Seanad: Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (28 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: It is relevant. Senator Burke raised the question of retrospection. Even if we had not amended the legislation, things would not change for those who will own the shares in the trust. When we took advice from the Attorney General and the officials in my Department, it was felt this should be written into primary legislation. It provides for the relevant parts of the Aer Lingus Act 2004 to be...

Seanad: Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (28 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I thank the House for taking the Bill this evening and for accepting the amendments. I am particularly grateful to Senators for their support and understanding, and for accepting the amendments put forward concerning the employee share ownership scheme for Aer Lingus, and the appeals process regarding decisions of the Commission for Aviation Regulation. As some Members of the Opposition...

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I thank the Deputies who have contributed to this debate and to the passage of the Bill through the House, in particular Deputies Shortall and Olivia Mitchell who have taken such an interest in it. I thank them and other Deputies who have contributed for their support and understanding and for their acceptance of amendments concerning the employee share ownership scheme for Aer Lingus and the...

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: This amendment and amendments Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 11 are being taken together. The Deputies are quite correct. This matter was debated at length on both Second Stage and Committee Stage. All of these amendments arise from concerns about the powers of detention and sale of aircraft for non-payment of airport, air navigation and communications charges. We have taken a policy decision not to impose...

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I am advised that the detention and sale provisions in Irish law are similar to those in UK law. Both are common law systems. Eurocontrol have also advised that Greece has a detention procedure and that Cyprus has legislation which will become effective on the entry into force of the revised convention which provides for detention of aircraft until judicial measures are taken against the...

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: In addition, Eurocontrol has indicated that member states that have civil law systems have similar powers to seize aircraft for non-payment of debts. All of these procedures, whether under common or civil law, have the same effect of freezing the asset in question and making it available as a security for the payment of a debt. While I gave further consideration over the past ten days to the...

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I have nothing further to add.

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I move amendment No. 6: In page 8, line 39, to delete "or". This amendment is grouped with amendments Nos. 7, 8, and 9 which refine the technical amendments to section 40 of the Aviation Regulation Act 2001. These original technical amendments related to the consideration of appeals of airport and aviation terminal charges determinations made by the Commission for Aviation Regulation. The...

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I move amendment No. 7: In page 8, line 44, to delete "appointed." and substitute "appointed, or".

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I move amendment No. 8: In page 8, after line 44, to insert the following: "(c) where a commissioner is appointed within the period referred to in paragraph (a) but due to his or her incapacity to act as a commissioner or ceasing to be a commissioner before making the decision within the period of 2 months referred to in subsection (8)— (i) within that period of 2 months, by the deputy...

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I move amendment No. 9: In page 9, line 3 to delete "(8A)(b)" and substitute "(8A)(b) or (c)(i)".

Aviation Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (21 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I move amendment No. 9a: In page 11, to delete line 40 and substitute the following: "6. — Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of section 67 of the Act of 1993 are repealed.". This amendment is grouped with amendment No. 10 which was proposed by Deputy Shortall. Following consideration of Deputy Shortall's amendment on Committee Stage, I have had the matter re-examined by the Parliamentary Counsel....

Seanad: Road Safety. (8 Mar 2006)

Pat Gallagher: Before I outline the many measures aimed at trucks, including legislative, regulatory, testing and enforcement measures, which are in place to improve road safety, I will give some statistics relating to collisions and fatalities. There were 334 fatal accidents and 374 fatalities, including 70 pedestrian fatalities, in 2004. There were 23 single vehicle fatal collisions involving goods...

National Car Test. (16 Feb 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin for raising this matter. It is not correct that the contract for the operation of the national car testing service will expire soon. The ten-year contract that was awarded to National Car Testing Service Limited will run for a further four years until the end of 2009, as the Deputy said. I will deal with the mid-term review that was also mentioned by the Deputy. He...

Office of Director of Public Prosecutions. (16 Feb 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I am deputising for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform who is out of the country. The Minister does not have responsibility for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. That office was established under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1974. The principle which underpins the Act is that prosecutorial decisions should be and...

Rail Network. (16 Feb 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I thank Deputy Pat Breen for raising this important issue. Transport 21 provides for the reopening of the western rail corridor between Ennis and Claremorris on a phased basis and the preservation of an alignment as far as Collooney. It also provides for the upgrade of the Athenry-Galway line in respect of commuter services. The western rail corridor, when completed, will provide a rail link...

Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (16 Feb 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I thank the Deputies who contributed to the debate. I carefully noted the issues raised and will try to respond to as many as possible in my reply. Deputy Olivia Mitchell and Deputy Boyle raised the issue of the delay in arranging for ratification of the revised convention, which was signed in 1997. Ratification by EU member states was delayed at the request of the Commission pending the...

Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee. (16 Feb 2006)

Pat Gallagher: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Transport in accordance with Standing Order 120(1) and paragraph 1(a)(i) of the Orders of Reference of that committee.