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Seanad: Agriculture and Fisheries: Statements, Questions and Answers (20 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: That would be a shame. The system you have put into place is ideal. I am loth to change it and have the spokespersons making speeches.

Seanad: Agriculture and Fisheries: Statements, Questions and Answers (20 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: This new format of debate is excellent and one we should encourage. However, it might not work so well if we did not have a Minister like the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, who seems to be well on top of his brief and is willing to respond to our questions. I am impressed by much of what he has said today. The Minister is in an impossible situation in respect of one issue, an old hobby...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I support Senator Mullen in his call for an immediate debate on the Cloyne report. It should take place before the recess and not next term. There is a need for moderate, considered and cool discussion on this point. Like Senator Coghlan, I listened to the archbishop and the Taoiseach yesterday. A great deal of discussion must take place and it should happen now, not in a few months time....

Seanad: Electoral Amendment Bill 2011: Committee Stage (21 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: Amendment No. 1 is consequential on amendment No. 12 and amendment No. 13 is related to amendment No. 12. All three will be discussed together.

Seanad: Electoral Amendment Bill 2011: Committee Stage (21 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I thank the Senator for his comments.

Seanad: Electoral Amendment Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: Senator Clune without interruption.

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (21 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed). (21 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: Acceptance of amendment No. 3 will involve the deletion of section 3 of the Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I read during the week that a professor in Columbia University posed the question to his students, as a matter for ethical debate, why 12% of people in one country might have agreed to be organ donors while the corresponding figure in a neighbouring country was 99.9%. The students discussed, among other issues, whether it was to do with religion or was a question of the availability of...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Dáil]: Second Stage (26 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I welcome the Minister before the House, and to a large extent his proposals are also welcome. I was very much involved in the introduction of the plastic bag levy ten years ago and although I argued strongly against it, each argument was overcome. I am now an enthusiast for the measure. I am on the board of two international organisations in the supermarket business and spend my time...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2011: Second Stage. (26 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I welcome the Minister back to the House. He has been with us on a number of occasions recently.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2011: Second Stage. (26 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: It was a final meeting.

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2011: Second Stage. (26 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for introducing the Bill. I appreciate Senator Bradford's generous comments. For many years, we have debated and called for legislation to protect whistleblowers. The new Bill will protect whistleblowers from dismissal or from being penalised in the workplace. The Minister is taking a much needed tough stance on white collar crime....

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: It is interesting to find that this is the day the Leas-Chathaoirleach cannot ask if we are calling on the Leader to arrange a debate on an issue because the Houses are taking a break for a few weeks. I would like to give Members some homework to do. I was impressed by the words of the largest pharmaceutical company in Britain which stated the UK regime made it attractive to conduct more...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I am fascinated by what the Minister has said. I wanted to refer to Senator O'Donovan's first query, because it seemed to me the question of retrospective legislation was sacrosanct but the Minister has opened my eyes to other possible situations. For example, a person may have opened a book last week and discovered something he or she had not known before. Although it may not have been a...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I move amendment No. 1: In page 30, after line 48, to insert the following subsections: "(3) Any judgement or order against a company disobeyed may by leave of the court, be enforced by— (a) sequestration against the property of the company, (b) attachment against the directors or other officers of the company, or (c) sequestration against the property of such directors or other officers....

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I thank the Minister for his explanation. I was not aware of all detail of which he has informed me. I can understand why this measure may not be appropriate to include in a criminal justice Bill, although if someone is found to have willfully refused to pay something the court has charged them to pay, that is very close to being criminal. The Minister said that the companies Bill that...

Seanad: Criminal Justice Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I would like to express my appreciation to the Minister. When I first took an interest in this Bill, I found it very educational. I assumed its intention was to protect whistleblowers who wished to inform. I did not realise it made it a crime for them not to inform. That has been a real education for me. I congratulate the Minister on his enthusiastic pursuit of this necessary and good...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Report into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (27 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: I support Senator Mullen's amendment. I welcome the Minister to the House. I listened very carefully to every word she had to say and am very impressed with what she has done and continues to do. I have had two educational experiences in recent months, the first of which was when my local Church of Ireland asked me to commence the reading of the King James version of the Bible, which was...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation Report into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (27 Jul 2011)

Feargal Quinn: We have experienced horrific stories, which we have heard once again today. We have also read them in the Cloyne report. It is essential that we take action, but let us get a balanced view on this. Let us take into that balanced view the fact that considerable efforts are being made on the part of the church.