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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Committee Stage (20 Apr 2021)

James Browne: Yes.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Committee Stage (20 Apr 2021)

James Browne: I will have to get that clarified for the Deputy.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Committee Stage (20 Apr 2021)

James Browne: I do not have that specific answer on it. It is that it cannot come directly out of the Central Bank.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Committee Stage (20 Apr 2021)

James Browne: I will come back to the Deputy.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Committee Stage (20 Apr 2021)

James Browne: I can give Deputy Howlin the clarification on that matter now, if it helps. In effect, what the ECB has stated is that the coin-related tasks conferred on the Central Bank of Ireland, CBI, do not form part of the functions of the euro system and that coins in euro are issued through the CBI as agent for the Minister for Finance. In effect, instead of coming out of the Central Bank of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Committee Stage (20 Apr 2021)

James Browne: Central funding, yes.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Provision (21 Apr 2021)

James Browne: 302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific amount allocated towards each individual active travel project in County Wexford in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18253/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (21 Apr 2021)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1358 and 1384 together. The Programme for Government gives a clear commitment to establish a gambling regulator focused on public safety and well-being, covering gambling online and in person, and the powers to regulate advertising, gambling websites and apps. The Justice Plan 2021 identifies the enactment of legislation to licence and regulate the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (21 Apr 2021)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1385, 1388, 1416 and 1425 together. The Programme for Government gives a clear commitment to establish a gambling regulator focused on public safety and well-being, covering gambling online and in person, and the powers to regulate advertising both online and through more traditional mediums. The Justice Plan 2021, identifies the enactment of legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Directives (21 Apr 2021)

James Browne: Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA of 27 November 2008 relates to the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences or measures involving deprivation of liberty for the purpose of their enforcement in the European Union. Legislation to transpose Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA is being progressed and is on the most recent...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Youth Justice Strategy (21 Apr 2021)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1437 and 1496 together. I can inform the Deputies that the Youth Justice Strategy 2021 – 2027 was published on 15 April 2021. The Strategy includes consideration of the full range of issues connected to children and young people at risk of coming into contact with the criminal justice system, including early intervention and preventative work, family...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2021)

James Browne: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. It is proposed to take amendments Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together. Before I comment on the detail of amendment No. 1, I propose to make a few preliminary remarks about the overall nature and effect of this group of amendments. The Senator’s proposed amendments all refer to section 2 of the Bill which amends section 16 in the principal Act...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2021)

James Browne: Social welfare payments are treated as income in the assessment of a person's income and the amount of reasonable living expenses is then deducted. Social welfare is treated the same as income from work done. Children's allowance is a universal payment and the policy decision was taken at the time to have that stand apart from the other welfare payments. After a person's income, including...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2021)

James Browne: This amendment refers to section 91 of the principal Act, which sets out the main criteria for persons to be eligible to propose a personal insolvency arrangement for creditors in order to resolve their debts. Among those criteria, section 91(1)(g) states that debtors must have made a declaration in writing confirming that they have co-operated with the secured creditors for a period of at...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2021)

James Browne: The proposed amendment is to section 99 of the principal Act which sets out the mandatory requirements for a personal insolvency arrangement. Section 99(2)(b) provides that the maximum duration of a personal insolvency arrangement shall be six years or 72 months, with an option to extend it by 12 months in specified circumstances, if the personal insolvency arrangement itself so provides....

Seanad: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2021)

James Browne: I hear the Senator's concerns. The purpose of the insolvency Acts is to provide an effective and clear resolution in a reasonable period of time, balancing the rights of both creditors and debtors and to get those applicants back to being economically active as quickly as possible. There will always be elements on either side of that and elements of unfairness at the edges but I agree with...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2021)

James Browne: Section 16 of the Bill introduces the option for a debtor to make a confirmation of truth as an alternative to a statutory declaration when solemnly confirming his or her complete and detailed financial situation in an application for a personal insolvency arrangement, debt settlement arrangement or a debt relief notice. This confirmation of truth under the Bill is very similar to the...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2021)

James Browne: I apologise if there is confusion over my language. I certainly was not implying that the Senator was implying that people may have been dishonest but it may be something on which some people may take a view if they were required to sign a different type of declaration.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2021)

James Browne: Under section 23 of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, the Insolvency Service of Ireland, ISI, is required to prepare and issue guidelines as to what constitutes a reasonable standard of living and reasonable living expenses, RLE, taking into account a list of specified criteria.These are now generally known as RLE guidelines. Section 23 also requires the ISI to re-examine and reissue these...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2021)

James Browne: Yes. I will be brief. I agree with the Senator's views on the Department of Social Protection and about having consistency across the various Departments. I cannot speak for the Department of Social Protection but I can speak for the Department of Justice. I will certainly get the Department of Justice to convey that message to the Department of Social Protection.