Results 3,601-3,620 of 4,608 for speaker:Joe O'Toole
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: No.
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (9 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, line 30, after "1999" to insert the following: ", TO AMEND SECTION 45 OF THE COMPANIES (AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING) ACT 2003 CONCERNING DIRECTORS' COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS". I welcome the Minister of State and his advisors but I see no sign that he will accept this amendment. The Government has had a bad run and I am putting forward two simple amendments, even if...
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (9 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Is the Minister of State indicating that the provision to which he refers was never initiated?
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (9 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Was it ever initiated?
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (9 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Yes.
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (9 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: That was a major statement on the part of the director.
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (9 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Who accepts the Government's right to legislate.
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (9 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I am disappointed with the response. I accept the Minister of State spoke to a number of people and gave it some thought. The Minister of State and Senator Callely referred to limited liability and I want to clarify why it is a gift and a privilege. It is not just because of the limited nature of the liability. It exists to encourage entrepreneurship. If I am running a company I may...
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (9 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: The last time we tried to do that was in 1990. I was a Member of this House on the occasion and it took so long that we had to come back in the middle of the summer to pass sections 7 and 8 dealing with the beef business. The adviser to the Minister of State, the Director of Corporate Enforcement, states: "the inclusion of the CLRG proposal as part of the planned consolidation of the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: On a point of order, what time has been set aside for the debate on No. 1?
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I wish to raise a point of order. Earlier I asked the Leader how much time would be allocated in respect of No. 1 and he indicated that the latter is not being taken. I do not believe that is what he meant to say and I wish to get the record straight. I wish to make a contribution in respect of No. 1. I understand that No. 1 is a proposal to withdraw a previous motion. In other words, we...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Yes, but that means No. 1 must be taken.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: The House is taking No. 1 today because it rescinds the previous order.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: We are taking No. 1 today. That is what I am trying to establish.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I cannot agree to No. 1 being taken without debate. On each occasion on which I am obliged to produce my passport, when arriving in Brussels or some other city, I wonder how long it will be before Ireland joins Europe. Britain and Ireland are part-time members of the European Union because they refuse to sign up to the Schengen Agreement. It is unacceptable that they so refuse and the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: We should not be obliged to queue with non-European citizens. Ireland should opt in to the Schengen acquis. In such circumstances, I am seeking to make a contribution on No. 1. The Houses have never debated this matter in spite of the fact that I have raised it on a number of occasions during the past 15 years. We have not opted in because the British have a liking for stationing fellows...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I am moving an amendment to the Order of Business to the effect that No. 1 should be taken with debate. I appreciate the support I received yesterday when I raised the matter of Foinse. Ceapaim go bhfuil sé scannalach nach bhfuil tacaÃocht ag teacht ón Rialtas chun acmhainnà a chur ar fáil do Foinse. Tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach do shaol intleachtúil na tÃre, go mórmhór ó...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I accept the Leader's offer to have a debate on this.