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Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I will second the amendment.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I am happy to second the amendment. I am particularly alert to any change because of the problem of smoky chimneys. It would worry me if we were to have that problem. If this proposal would enable us to remove it, then I support it.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I second the amendment which I am happy to support. It seems that there will soon be an occasion when the Government will not accept an assessment of the Climate Change Advisory Council; if so, the reasons for this should be the matter of an open discussion. I support the amendment on that basis. On that basis the Government's reasons should be laid before both Houses within two months of...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I support Senator Crown's amendment to the Order of Business in respect of No. 59, which concerns the healthy living Bill. Bernard Hand has been a joy ever since I came in here. He has been a joy to meet and has been a joy to anybody he has shown around this House because he has not just shown people around the Houses of the Oireachtas as part of his job, he has done it with enthusiasm,...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I appreciate what the Minister has said. In terms of having somebody who has the expertise but comes from, lives or has moved outside of the State, it would be a shame to limit ourselves and not have that benefit.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I am sure the Minister has an explanation for this situation. It does not seem to make sense to have two different charges in a modern era. The prices differ by quite a substantial multiple although we did not do the sums. It seems to me to be out of the question to have two different rates.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: It is always enlightening to listen to Senator Ó Murchú speak because he does so with concern and commitment. I have a difficulty, however, in that every time we seek to solve problems in other parts of the world we seem to be saying what they should be doing. I have a difficulty with that and especially in the case of Israel and Palestine. Palestine has continued to say it does...

Seanad: Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (1 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: The Minister of State is very welcome. The Bill is a very technical and necessary one. I take the opportunity to raise a couple of issues on the overall tax system for vehicles as a whole. We must ask why gardaí are even monitoring whether people pay their motor tax. In reality, checkpoints are a leftover from the 1920s and they are rarely seen in other European countries anymore....

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: We do not always recognise or praise the great work done by some people. I have just been at the human dignity award ceremony where the Ceann Comhairle presented an award to Barney Curley. I did not know the story of Barney Curley but the amount of work he does in Zambia, for which he is totally unpaid, is just wonderful. It is great that we in this House can recognise such actions because...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I welcome the Minister of State. I am delighted to have him here. What is particularly pleasing in the finance results that are coming through is that we have a surplus way beyond that which we anticipated, on which I congratulate the Minister of State and Department. I got one piece of advice from Senator Sean D. Barrett, namely, not to forget the shoebox. I asked him what he meant. I...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I welcome the chance to speak on this Bill. I would like to raise some issues relating to business, in particular, SMEs. Part 3 deals with various VAT issues. I would like to see the Minister doing more to help the retail sector, something Senator Mullins mentioned. In particular, we need to make it easy for retailers to succeed online. As we saw with black Friday and cyber Monday, this...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I thank the Acting Chairman.

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2015: Second Stage (7 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: The Minister is very welcome. The Bill is also particularly welcome. I add to what others have said in terms of the great effort the Minister is putting in, but she is also achieving much success. I congratulate her in this regard. We are honoured to have her here so often introducing Bills such as the one before the House. I sent a birthday card today to Dr. T. K. Whitaker, who will be...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (8 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I welcome the Minister of State and I have listened very carefully to what he said. I also checked the Department website and realised the amount of work put into this by Dr. Don Thornhill. He is somebody who has served the State well and even many years after that, he is willing to give time to it. I mentioned another man yesterday, Dr. T.K. Whitaker, to whom I spoke last night and who is...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I have just come from the launch of the document on low pay, decent work and the living wage produced by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise. We should find time to debate this document as it is quite a balanced report. Our colleague, Senator Cullinane, was the rapporteur for it and balanced it very well. One of the concerns is that in attempting to bring the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: We discussed this issue on Second Stage. I do not quite understand it because if the Government is aiming to encourage people to invest, it should also aim to maintain investments, but this does not apply to anything older than seven years.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: I thank the Minister of State for the explanation. I agree entirely with Senator O'Brien. We do not want to jeopardise the scheme because it is worthwhile but we would like to investigate the history behind this and I appreciate the offer he has made.

Seanad: Gradam an Uachtaráin Bill 2015: Second Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Feargal Quinn: The Minister of State is very welcome to the House. I am pleased he is here to take this Bill because this is an issue I feel strongly about. I was with Dr. T.K. Whitaker yesterday. He was 99 years old yesterday. I was congratulating him on that occasion and it dawned on me that he is the sort of man who has served this country well and the sort of person we should have been able to...