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Child Care Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: With respect, the Minister of State should put the notes down and give me some assurance that the State will take this particular case seriously. I understand that he cannot give me a comprehensive response due to industrial action, which is a disgrace.

Child Care Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I thank the Minister of State.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: There were 20,000 letters.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: Can I raise an issue on the Order of Business?

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: Yesterday, I took the advice of the Ceann Comhairle and attempted to raise an issue involving the HSE during the Adjournment debate. The Ceann Comhairle kindly accepted the motion on the Adjournment, which relates to the latest child to go missing from HSE care, this time in Cork. She has been missing since 26 January and I raised the issue last night in order to establish some facts from a...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: We cannot get answers.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 2: In page 13, line 28, to delete "by order" and substitute "subsequent to approval by Dáil Éireann". It is unusual to have two different Ministers taking Committee and Report Stages of the same Bill, although I presume both Ministers have a good understanding of it. The Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, took Committee Stage and we had some very useful...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: My amendment is pretty self-explanatory and amendment No. 3 deals with the spirit of the amendment. I am happy to withdraw the amendment.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: My amendment No. 5 is in regard to the responsibilities of the new IFI in supporting angling promotion and marketing activities, which I believe the Minister recognises. It requires it to co-operate with relevant State agencies and, as I proposed, other sectoral interests. In other words, the private sector here is hugely important to the promotion, marketing and development of this...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: What the Minister is attempting to do in this amendment does not address the points Deputy McManus is making in her amendment No. 7 and that I am trying to make in my amendment No. 8. We propose that the Oireachtas joint committee will have a say on the make-up of the board of the IFI but that we will have no say in the make-up of the inland fisheries forum, which is where most of the...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 9: In page 15, line 35, after "relevant" to insert the following: "and make the results of all research publicly available". This amendment concerns research which is being done. It is an issue about which the Minister cares because he makes decisions, in this area at least, on the basis of the scientific information available to him on the management of fish stocks and...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: For the Minister's sake, I hope it is not. I tabled amendment No. 9 and I will withdraw it.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I could have made life difficult if I accepted it quickly. I withdraw it on the basis of what the Minister has said.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 11: In page 17, to delete lines 12 to 27. I understand the Minister is trying to deal with an issue I raised on Committee Stage in amendment No. 11. On that basis, I will not prolong the discussion.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I was caught off guard on amendment No. 11, although I stand over what I said about the Minister partially addressing the issue. I am concerned that under this section the Minister has the power to change radically by ministerial order the way in which inland fisheries are managed. All we are doing in this Bill by way of setting up a new inland fisheries management structure and creating...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: The Minister received some recognition for being the first Minister in a very long time to try to amend the system for making State appointments, certainly in regard to the broadcasting sector. That principle is welcome. We have learned some lessons from the process, however. One lesson is that there needs to be proper interaction between the Minister who will be making the appointments...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I thank the Minister and in particular his Department for genuinely seeking to deal with many of the concerns we raised on Committee Stage. This is another example of that. Having said that, I would rather see the sectoral interests of sea angling and river angling - which are two very different sports - being dealt with in their own right in new subsections (m) and (n) as set out in my...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 20: In page 23, to delete line 38. I raised this issue on Committee Stage because it is a provision that did not sit comfortably with me from the first time I read the Bill. The Department has provided me, and presumably Deputy McManus, with a note on this issue but I remain concerned. This section sets out the circumstances in which a person may be disqualified from...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I do not agree that this is the way we should do it because this is the way we have just done it in the broadcasting legislation and other legislation. It was not raised then but it is being raised now. The way in which we do our work is that, when issues are raised, it is the job of the Minister and his Department to try to answer them satisfactorily or else to try to solve problems, if...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 21: In page 24, line 11, after "Minister" to insert "with the approval of the Dáil". I have just been reminded by my colleague that the time remaining to deal with the legislation is very short. Therefore, I will withdraw my amendment and accept the Minister's amendment No. 22, which does not give everything I seek but certainly goes a long way.