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- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Please explain where the charge arises. The amendment seeks to increase the number of members on the board from 11 to 13 people. Therefore, it seems quite strange that the amendment has been deemed to bring a charge on the Exchequer.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I wish to note our huge disappointment at that decision. We have tabled similar amendments at different times for different legislation that were not ruled out of order and I know that the Government has tabled similar amendments. I shall speak on the section to outline why my party made the suggestion.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The amendment has been kicked to touch on a technicality, which is disappointing to be honest.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Níor labhair mé é fós ach ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire. I thank the Minister for bringing the Bill forward. In a general sense, we concur with most of what has been brought forward in the Bill but we will raise a number of issues later on. I thank the Minister's backroom team for its briefing on amendments yesterday. I wish to put on record that we...
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: To respond to Senator Conway, the suggestion we are making is that the authority includes members from employer and employee representative organisations. This is important because in addition to dealing with legal issues, the authority will also manage people. For this reason, it is important that employers and workers are represented in equal measure on the board. I would welcome...
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 25:In page 29, line 10, after “may” where it firstly occurs to insert “, after consultation with the professional bodies,”. Sinn Féin is concerned that the staff employed by the Law Society and Bar Council to handle and investigate complaints will lose their jobs and be replaced by staff in the new authority carrying out the same role....
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I thank the Minister for her response. The Government amendments came in quite late in the day. Our own were probably submitted at the same time. We seem to be coming from a similar position on this issue. I will take what the Minister has said at face value and on that basis we will withdraw the amendments while reserving the right to resubmit them on Report Stage. We will discuss the...
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is ironic that section 80 is about the levy, and when we try to amend the section, we are not allowed to do that because we are told it would incur a cost to the Exchequer. I find this strange and it seems like a technicality to try to kick it to touch. The amendments are a genuine attempt to improve the legislation because we have said that we are very positive about this legislation....
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: On this section and all of those sections relating to multidisciplinary practices, the Minister and I have a difference of opinion from a philosophical point of view. The amendments that the Opposition has tabled relating to the sections which deal with multidisciplinary practices are based on our opposition to those practices where solicitors, barristers and accountants operate under the...
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: For the reasons I outlined earlier, I am opposing the section.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Section 91(7).
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: As previously outlined, we are opposed to multidisciplinary practices and we therefore oppose this section.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Due to our previously outlined opposition to multidisciplinary practices, we oppose this section.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We oppose this section due to the principle of multidisciplinary practices being included.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: As we are opposing the multidisciplinary practice model, we oppose the section.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: As we are opposed to the principle of multidisciplinary practices, we are opposed to the section.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: As we have noted, we are in opposition to multidisciplinary practices, so we are in opposition to the section.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Owing to our opposition to multidisciplinary practices, we are opposed to the section.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tá mé ag ardú ceist inniu a bhaineann leis an gcóras dlí choiriúil agus, go háirid, an chaoi ina bhfuil an Roinn Dlí agus Cirt agus Comhionnanais ag cur i bhfeidhm na pionóis a ghearrtar ar dhaoine. We witnessed considerable media coverage of a case of a woman from Galway who had been abused. In March her abuser pleaded guilty in Galway Circuit...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: A big issue for the Minister is the management of the penalty that has been imposed.