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Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: The Minister reminds me of Senator O'Rourke's friend, Michael O'Leary, in that respect.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: I move recommendation No.12: In page 43, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: "(3) The Minister shall on or before 31 December 2003, report to both Houses of the Oireachtas on the implications of the application of this section for persons on low incomes.". As we have only a few minutes left, let us broach the subject of special tax breaks and allowances. While I broadly share...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: Is this all a puff of smoke?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: What is the film relief argument?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: Clearly, it works.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: Why abolish it?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Committee and Remaining Stages. (26 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: Does the Minister include the possibility that he might reconsider the film relief provision?

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: In regard to the Order of Business, it is remarkable that we are seeking to progress through the House within a matter of a few hours today and tomorrow the two most important Bills which come before the Oireachtas annually. The Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill and the Finance Bill are extremely detailed, complex and lengthy and it is staggering that the Leader thinks we have...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Second Stage. (25 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: That is a nice idea.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Second Stage. (25 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: I join other Members in welcoming the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Callely, to the House. I am opposed to this Bill for many of the reasons Senator Ross appears to support it. That will hardly come as a surprise to anybody, certainly not to Senator Ross. I will take a couple of minutes to refute some of the points the Senator made as I suspect the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Second Stage. (25 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: Borrow for capital purposes.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Second Stage. (25 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: It would beat half an hour in Ardee, would it not?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Second Stage. (25 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: The Minister has expertise in this matter.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2003 [ Certified Money Bill ] : Second Stage. (25 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: The Senator is showing his age.

Seanad: Foreign Conflicts: Motion. (21 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: I second the amendment. Amendment put. Tá

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, to delete lines 5 and 6. This amendment is effectively to amend the Title of the Bill. Senators will recall from Committee Stage that we tabled this amendment because we felt the Bill was misnamed. It is not a freedom of information Bill because it is intended to restrict the availability of information. It consists of no fewer than several dozen amendments...

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: I do not intend to dwell on this matter. The Minister has pointed out that the Labour Party has put down a number of amendments which seek to negative various sections of the Bill. My party does not intend to pursue the earlier amendments at any length, as they were flogged to death on Committee Stage. My party intends to move rapidly through the earlier amendments, with the exception of...

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: Speaking specifically to the amendments, as other Senators have pointed out, they were actually included in the commissioner's report and in his recommendations to the Department of Finance some months ago. A specific point arose on Committee Stage last week when the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Michael Ahern, conceded that there could be...

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: I move amendment No. 4: In page 5, to delete lines 10 to 28. There is a definition section in the Bill where the only part of concern to us is the definition of the words "factual information". We had a lengthy debate last week as to what was comprehended by the definition and specifically discussed the tax strategy group papers referred to by the Minister. In my experience of dealing with...

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (20 Mar 2003)

Derek McDowell: I take this as being the assurance for which I was looking. On the face of it, the papers could easily be covered by the amendments to section 19 and others that deal with the deliberative process. For example, some Departments insist the Estimates process never ends. They forever go to the Department of Finance and will not accept an issue has been finally dealt with, or the deliberative...