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Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: Not for many years to come.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I agree with colleagues that this is an important and substantive Bill. I have made great efforts to have it brought before the House. The book of 159 amendments to this Bill, which are the substantive ones, was published 12 months ago. The only changes I have made are technical amendments concerning dates and timeframes but there is nothing substantive in any of the recent amendments.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: The amendments published last night comprise 13 amendments to amendments, with which I have no issue, tabled by the Deputy yesterday. When Opposition members table amendments to amendments, the procedure is that the Bills Office reproduces the full text of the amendments. All the Deputies have received is a reproduction of what was already published.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: They are the Deputy's amendments?

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: My understanding is that when amendments to amendments are tabled, as in this case to the Deputy's amendments, the Bills Office reproduces in full the amendments that have been published. In this instance, that is all that has been published. In reply to Deputy Olivia Mitchell's comment on the groupings of amendments, I understand that there are only one or two changes proposed and that they...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: The list from which I am working contains 37 groupings. I understand there are only one or two changes to accommodate some of the technical amendments. I would not come before the House and propose that we proceed if I had published substantive amendments to the Bill yesterday. The amendments were published 12 months ago and the Deputies have had those 159 amendments for that period. Those...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I do not want to give Deputy Shortall incorrect information but I am informed that those amendments are reproductions in full as a counter to the effect of her amendments which were tabled previously. That is the procedure followed by the Bills Office. My understanding is that I have not produced anything new of a substantive nature in the past 24 hours. However, the Bills Office follows the...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I have answered, in large measure, the Deputies' views on this matter. All of us accept that we would like to deal with the Bill since it has come before the House. What I have tried to do is add substantially to key safety provisions in it. We have engaged in considerable negotiation with the various bodies involved and they are correct in what they put forward in terms of safety issues. We...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: Yes. I have moved to recommit the Bill to give all of us time to deal with the issues before us. I accept that they are substantive in nature.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I know that but I went further. I thought it would be helpful to recommit the entire Bill rather than to keep doing so only for particular amendments.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I thought I had moved this in a motion yesterday and that there was no objection to it. Was this motion agreed on yesterday's Order of Business? I moved it at that point.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: If that is the procedure, it is fine with me.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 3: In page 10, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: "(2) Notwithstanding section 69 of the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001, this Act applies to any railway works authorised by a railway order under section 43 of that Act". The purpose of this amendment is to make clear that the Bill applies to workers authorised by railway orders under the Transport...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: There is no hard and fast rule in this area. While it has been common practice until a short time ago to state, first, the name by which the body being established will be known, in practice, and, most commonly, the English version of the name, I note that some recent Bills have departed from this precedent. This issue arises in a number of other areas in the Bill. I would like to make...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, to delete line 3 and substitute the following: "(b) to enforce this Act and any other legislation relating to railway safety, and". While 43 amendments may appear to be a large number to take together, I am satisfied that they are largely technical and interrelated and should logically be grouped together. First, I will explain the origin of these...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 6: In page 13, lines 18 and 19, to delete all words from and including "any" in line 18 down to and including "Act)" in line 19 and substitute the following: "its functions as he or she considers appropriate". This is a technical amendment. Its purpose is to simply align the wording of section 13(5) with that in section 13(1). The latter provides that I may give general...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 7: In page 13, to delete lines 23 to 34 and substitute the following: "14.—(1) The Commission shall consist of at least one but not more than 3 members. (2) Each member of the Commission shall be known as a Commissioner for Railway Safety and is in this Act referred to as a 'commissioner'. (3) The person who holds, immediately before the establishment day, the position...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: The Deputies have made an important point. The chief railway inspecting office has been earmarked for automatic appointment as commissioner on establishment day. This would involve promotion from principal officer equivalent to assistant secretary equivalent without competition. The chief inspector is eminently qualified for the commissioner post. With regard to the chief inspector's term of...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: It will be held at the end of the commissioner's term of office.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: It is between three and seven years.