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Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: This amendment is a technical amendment to the definition of a remote bookmaking operation to clarify that the definition encompasses the business and activities of a remote bookmaker or remote betting intermediary. Section 13 is also amended to introduce a similar definition for a bookmaking operation. The Bill provides that a licensed bookmaker may accept remote bets to a value of the...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Senators for their invaluable and informative contributions and I acknowledge that everyone has expressed a caveat. It is a regulatory Bill that is specific and interim. It is about betting and creating a level playing pitch for both the traditional bricks and mortar establishment on the high street and online betting. I hear the frustration and also a sense of urgency about...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I again thank Senators again their contributions. I know that they are reinforcing their original contributions which I take as sincere and genuine. This highlights the degree of frustration felt in trying to have a very important issue placed on the agenda. In line with Senator Darragh O'Brien's point, I will find out where the Bill is at in the drafting process. I will seek clarity on...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Section 8 replaces section 5 of the principal Act. This section sets out the application process for a certificate of personal fitness to hold a bookmaker's license for a person resident outside the State to the Minister for Justice and Equality. A person seeking a certificate of personal fitness must provide notice in two daily newspapers circulated in the State of his intention to make...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: The section provides for the establishment, maintenance and publication of a register of remote bookmaking operations of all remote bookmakers licences and remote betting intermediary licences by the Revenue Commissioners and stipulates the details to be included. It also provides for the removal from the register where a licence is revoked and that the Revenue Commissioners will publish...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I apologise for the delay in responding. The note is in English. The Bill provides that a person in the State who fails to comply with a direction from Revenue to stop providing Internet access, advertising or promotion services to an unlicensed remote operator is committing an offence. The amendment provides for the penalties that will apply to such an offence. Section 29 inserts...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: The amendments extend the period of registration of a bookmaking premises to two years, bringing the period into line with the new two-year period of a bookmaker's licence. They rephrase the meaning of the term "registration final day" to remove any doubt as to when the registration of a bookmaker's premises falls due for renewal and bring the date of renewal of registration under the...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gcoiste as ucht an cuireadh chuig an gcruinniú seo. The EPA-sponsored survey involves many stakeholders in Northern Ireland, as well as the Department. It is in the process of being carried out and due for publication, possibly in mid-2016. On the question of how much it will cost, we have in mind a figure in the order of €1 million....

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: But seeing as how I brought it up-----

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: As the Deputy will be aware, the steering committee is broad and extends North and South; therefore, Northern Ireland is represented. The committee is the mechanism by which the information is being gathered. The Northern Irish representatives will have the same access to information as their Southern counterparts during the process. North-South political mechanisms allow Ministers from...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. At the outset, I wish to acknowledge the role of the officials within my Department. They have been extremely proactive and this has been in response to the genuine proactivity at a local level. Local councillors, Deputies and the local community's swift response on the clams issue in Lanesborough has been positive and has helped the process. Do...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I have a number of views on eel fishing. As a person born in the north-west of Donegal and on the coast, I would not have had much familiarity with it before being appointed to this post. However, I have had quite a good briefing on the issue and I have learned a lot. We have had a number of delegations from people who fished eels in the past. There is a problem with stock levels....

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Exactly, and look at possibilities where we can have quick win solutions. There is a problem with the stocks and the life cycle. It is a long-term life cycle. We are also hearing reports of different examples, such as what is happening in Lough Neagh. We are examining other practices surrounding the fishing of eels. The eel fisherpeople would have been the custodians of the stock. I...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Summer time.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I agree with the Deputy about the massive potential. Obviously, there are stocking challenges with brown trout and wild salmon and there are discussions and consultations taking place about management. We could have a very wide debate about the constraints and the challenges, be it pollution, cormorants or seals, but we have a difficulty in terms of stocks. At the same time there are very...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I agree. Nobody wishes to send money back. There was enthusiasm at the Inland Fisheries Ireland board meeting. Many of the members would have been practitioners down the years. There is potential and there are certain aims and objectives on which our Department can follow through. I will take on board the Deputy's suggestion regarding information sharing for creating awareness. Getting...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Scholarships (12 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: I assume the Deputy is referring to scholarships provided to assist primary and secondary school students to attend Irish colleges in the Gaeltacht during the summer. My Department does not grant such assistance directly to students. However, I am aware that scholarships are provided from time to time by various Irish language, cultural and sporting organisations, as well as several local...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Teanga (12 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Tá sé i gceist fógraí a fhoilsiú go han-luath faoi alt 7(3) d'Acht na Gaeltachta 2012 chun tús oifigiúil a chur leis an bpróiseas pleanála teanga i 4 Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta eile, lena n-airítear Árainn Mhór i gCo. Dhún na nGall. I gcomhthéacs an róil atá sainithe don Údarás mar a...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Bord Údarás na Gaeltachta (17 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: Faoi Acht na Gaeltachta 2012, ceapann an tAire seachtar comhalta, an cathaoirleach san áireamh, ar bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta. Ina theannta sin, ainmníonn comhairlí contae, a bhfuil ceantar Gaeltachta ina ndlínse, an cúigear comhalta eile don Aire i gcomhar ceapacháin. Faoin Acht, ní rachaidh téarma oifige na gcomhaltaí thar chúig...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Business Parks (19 Feb 2015)

Joe McHugh: The Deputy will appreciate the constraints that apply in replying to a "details supplied" Question of this nature. I am fully aware of the importance of the availability of high quality and affordable services of the nature referred to by the Deputy. I understand that the relevant service provider has indicated that it intends to upgrade its existing infrastructure, resulting in a...