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Written Answers — Exchequer Returns: Exchequer Returns (3 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the November 2009 Exchequer returns published on 2 December 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44868/09]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (3 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the statement from an association (details supplied) expressing concerns regarding the internal appointment of directors at a bank; the reason he allowed these appointments to proceed when his preference was for an external candidate to become chief executive of the bank; his further views on the statement by the association that...

Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: The Labour Party is opposed to this.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: It is not the way to bring in legislation. The Minister has essentially lumped two separate Bills into one, and the second part of this Bill deals with an issue totally unconnected with the main Title. The Minister did not have an amendment in time so Deputy Coveney and I submitted an amendment prepared by the Government. It was rejected because it was not relevant to the Bill.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: We are supposed to be able to get the basics right. We do not have to get great thinking from the other side of the House.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: We must have the nuts and bolts of democracy working as required. That means we should have the Bill on Committee Stage. In this instance, we did not. We did not have the full Title of the Bill. Report Stage will even include an amendment to the Title of the Bill. It is a clumsy, inadequate and undemocratic approach to preparing and making legislation, which is our primary duty, and...

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Instruction to Committee (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: I did not get a copy of the Minister's speech. Is there a problem with it?

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Instruction to Committee (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: I have just received a copy now. I appreciate that Deputy Coveney would need to have a copy. It is not good enough that Members have to come begging for copies of a Minister's speech. I do not wish to labour the point but when the Minister is making his contribution, we should have a copy of what he is saying. It is a reference for us and is useful, and it leads to a better debate. This...

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Instruction to Committee (Resumed) (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: It is important when we change legislation, even in this rather cackhanded way, that we do so to make sure that any process we establish is as efficient as possible. I have some concerns about the Minister's amendment. Deputy Coveney and I put down a similar amendment but this one is complicated, I suspect unnecessarily so because there are two Departments involved, the Departments of...

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: The point Deputy Coveney was making was that, rather than taking all of those amendments together, it would be no problem for the Minister to take amendment No. 38 separately. It is an enormous amendment.

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: I have some points to make but it is complicated when we are recommitting such a large group of amendments. On amendment No. 7, the Minister proposes to delete line 27, "Principal Act means Communications Regulation Act 2002;". Does that mean there is no reference to any principal Act anywhere in the Bill? If there is, there should be an explanation of what that Act is. Why did the...

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: I could not find the actual section from which I was reading earlier. As I read it, a telecommunications company would not be able to get compensation if something goes wrong on an NRA national primary route if permission had been granted prior to this by a local authority. Perhaps the Minister will clarify because there are instances where, for example, in my constituency, Eircom got...

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: They cannot make money out of it.

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: I would have thought this is the kind of very minor detail that would have been dealt with before the Bill was published. I am a little surprised that this detail is being dealt with on Report Stage.

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: I move amendment No. 6: In page 3, line 29, to delete "(other than a broadcasting service)". This is an area where the Minister could make an improvement rather than just changing the name of a Minister in the line of a Bill and calling it an improvement. It seems the Minister has made some effort in amendment No. 11 to deal with the issue that I raised but it does not deal with the issue....

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: The Minister should have identified himself.

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: The Minister stated the broadcaster will come under the regulatory structure to be established under the legislation. I do not see any such reference in the Bill, although I welcome his amendment No. 10 as it at least goes part of the road. The amendment states: "Where a specified premium rate service is advertised or promoted by means of a broadcasting service, it is the function of the...

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: I know why.

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: When I stated that I know, I mean that I suspect the reason this is not done is because of the two silos, that is, ComReg and the BAI, Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. The Minister wants no leakage whatsoever such that ComReg would investigate a broadcaster. If this is the case, it is a very myopic view. If a broadcaster is scamming in this way and is party to the scam, then it must be...

Communications Regulation (Premium Rate Services) Bill 2009: Report Stage (8 Dec 2009)

Liz McManus: He did not say.