Results 261-280 of 939 for speaker:Noel Treacy
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I will not leave for years. I will not leave until the people of Galway East decide that it is time for me to do so.
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: No. One must look back at history to pinpoint the way forward, but one must not be a prisoner of that history.
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: Every elected Member has a role to play in the formulation of legislation.
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: Like the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ahern, and our eminent officials, I do not have a desire to frustrate any quality contributions. I would not propose an alternative word for that reason. The words in the amendments I have tabled have been recommended by the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, following a great deal of examination on the part of that office. I have taken on...
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: Amendments Nos. 3 and 5 have been tabled on the basis of the advice of the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel. We agree with that office's recommendation of the word "perfected". We are totally guided by that advice in this instance. I listened with great interest to Deputy Howlin's comments about the Supreme Court. I am worried that justice delayed is justice denied. It is obvious...
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I can understand all of that. Based on the eminent legal advice and taking into account the totality of the contributions made, in writing and otherwise, I regret that the amendments I have proposed are the best I can do today.
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: A counsel advises.
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I do not have written advice. This has been a process of consultation, advice and discussion with the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel. I do not have any written advice from the counsel, apart from the notes taken by the great officials while in his eminent presence. The final documentation is proposed on that basis.
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: No. We are operating on the basis of the consensual conclusion of great people in their intellectual capacity, taking into account their experience and their understanding of the documentation before them and the words proposed.
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I move amendment No. 5: In page 21, line 30, to delete "delivered" and substitute "perfected".
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I have been advised that the present formulation of the Bill in this regard is satisfactory. It will be noted that the proposed new section 256D(2) of the 1990 Act, to be inserted by section 25 of this Bill, requires that the appeal be lodged within five days.
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I think so. I have been assured that it is.
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I move amendment No. 8: In page 21, line 31, to delete "filed" and substitute "lodged".
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I move amendment No. 9: In page 30, line 43, after "â¬2,500,000" to insert the following: "(and the means by which that limit shall be calculated, in particular in the case of a series of such offers of securities, shall be the same as that provided for by regulations under section 46 in relation to analogous limits specified by those regulations for any purpose)". Since the definition of...
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I move amendment No. 10: In page 31, to delete lines 41 to 46.
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: The current version of the Bill would regard this as section 40(2). I will quote from it: The Companies (Recognition of Countries) Order 1964 (S.I. No. 42 of 1964) is revoked to the extent that it is for the purposes of section 367 of the Act of 1963. I accept the validity of the amendment proposed by Deputy Howlin. However, I am advised that the present formulation of this Bill is...
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: The Bill refers to Article 2 of the Companies (Recognition of Countries) Order 1964, so there is a recognition of that order, SI 42 of 1964 which, as the Bill says, is amended by the substitution of "section 250" for "sections 250 and 367". This proposal, as contained in the Bill â obviously having come through the due process of legal advice, the Office of the Attorney General, the Office...
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: If an amendment brought forward from the Opposition has a legal import, we are obliged to take legal advice on it. We did so in this instance and the legal advice is that it is unnecessary to make this change. However, in view of the case made by Deputy Howlin, I will ask the eminent officials present to have further discussions with the Parliamentary Counsel, and if any further change is...
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I move amendment No. 12: In page 51, lines 3 to 10, to delete all words from and including "State" in line 3 down to and including "2A." in line 10 and substitute the following: "State"â (I) the only securities of which for the time being are authorised (or during the period of 5 years referred to in paragraph (b) were authorised) to be traded by a recognised stock exchange on a market...
- Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages. (24 Jun 2005)
Noel Treacy: I move amendment No. 13: In page 54, after line 42, to insert the following: "87.â(1) Section 33AN of the Central Bank Act 1942 (inserted by the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Act 2004) is amended by inserting the following definitions after the definition of 'contravene': '"designated enactment" does not include Part 4 or 5 of the Investment Funds, Companies and...