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Seanad: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 9: In page 15, line 35, after “owner” where it secondly occurs to insert “and such unauthorised use was notified to An Garda Síochána”.This amendment deals with the statement by the owner of the vehicle that the use was not authorised by him or her. The Bill states that when the owner succeeds in that claim, the controller or...

Seanad: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister. He raised a most interesting point. When his predecessor was in this House to deal with road safety legislation, which of course has the support of everybody on all sides of the House, we considered issues like whether people should be required to have their driving licences with them now that we have moved to a credit card system. How does that make road safety...

Seanad: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I wish the road safety implementation group, of which the Minister is a member, every success. It has to involve other Departments. I think it does. I thank the Minister again.

Seanad: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 12: In page 17, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:"(f) examination by the clamping appeals officer of the costs to the property owner of wrongly parked vehicles on premises which are the subject of the appeal.".I do not wish to pursue this amendment because the Minister gave a comprehensive reply on the matter when we discussed it earlier.

Seanad: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 13: In page 18, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:"(6) Where the determination of a clamping appeals officer is not to revoke the decision of a parking controller the appellant shall refund to the parking controller such costs incurred by the controller as the clamping appeals officer may direct in the determination.".This amendment relates to an area about...

Seanad: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply.

Seanad: Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister. He showed his commitment to this House on the last day when he decided to come here instead of attending a conference of transport Ministers. He has showed his commitment again today. We are indebted to him.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: When a local authority did not function in the past, the Government installed a commissioner to run it. We are getting close to that situation with Irish Water. There are reports of the meetings yesterday of the Government parliamentary parties where the issue was raised. There is surplus staff, a bonus culture, weak regulation by a regulator that pays its own staff bonuses, the inability...

Seanad: Immigration (Reform)(Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2014: First Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I second the proposal.

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 27, to delete lines 9 to 13 and substitute the following:“the Minister shall issue a replanting order in respect of the owner requiring him or her to replant in accordance with the provisions of the order.”.

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and welcome the Minister of State. We have all gained from the two previous occasions we have had these debates on forestry. The Minister of State mentioned that he is preparing a programme for the new year and issuing important documents. I hope that he has benefitted from what we have been saying here. It has been a very good dialogue between us. The...

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: In response to Senator Ó Domhnaill we did try to separate the different categories of trees in amendment No. 2 on Committee Stage but that did not work. That is why we re-submitted it today in a different form. I agree that where the trees are felled without a licence is a more serious case than where the licence is merely contravened. In the last of the three cases, where it is...

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: Yes.

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 3: In page 27, to delete lines 37 and 38, and in page 28, to delete line 1 and substitute the following:"(9) A replanting order must be implemented within one year of the felling of the previous trees.".

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I second the amendment. Section 17(c) of the Bill already provides that where a person operating under the direction of another person contravenes the conditions of a felling licence, both persons will be liable to prosecution having regard to the circumstances of the case. Furthermore, this safeguard is replicated in section 27(10) which sets out the detail for offences and penalties....

Seanad: Forestry Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister of State for those sentiments. I wish him and the sector under his remit well. I look forward to his future visits to the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: On Sunday last, advice on how to operate economic policy in this country was given to this House and the Government by the chief executive officer of Ulster Bank and the man who was head of Permanent TSB between 2007 and 2012. Both of these individuals are opposed to the deposit and loan-to-income ratios which the Governor of the Central Bank has proposed. The British Government owns an 81%...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: It is a case of the Central Bank adhering to the old adage "Physician heal thyself". The bank was supposed to be in charge but it managed to bungle matters in a most comprehensive way. I would like to hear its version of what went wrong in addition to the results of its investigation into other people.

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (21 Oct 2014)

Sean Barrett: The Minister is welcome as always to the House. Having read through the documentation on the matter one of the thoughts I had - I am not being too mischievous - was what did Latvia do to deserve to be included in the euro. The more serious theme is Alan Ahearne's comment in a section of the Brian Lenihan book to the effect that an additional dimension to Ireland's crisis was the country's...