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National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I ask the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to clarify.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 7:In page 7, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“(4) The Regulator will cease to exist at a date to be set by the Minister.”.This amendment is very straightforward and the Minister knows precisely what I am getting at. I raised the issue on Committee Stage, although I did not table an exact amendment on it then. I spoke about it, however, and...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: Nobody asked the Minister to do it, but he inserted in that document a provision that all new State bodies or agencies being established from November 2011 shall have a sunset clause. I pointed that out to the Minister, yet here he is setting up his first ever agency since becoming Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and lo and behold he has not included a sunset clause. I do not...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I understand the logic of that, which is why I specifically did not put a date in the amendment. I know the lottery licence is to run for a long period. Normally people would have put five or ten years, but I left it wide open. If that is the Minister's stated position, however, he should revise the document he issued in November 2011 in which he referred to sunset clauses. He said that...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 8:In page 7, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“8. The Minister shall reply to Parliamentary Questions relating to the regulation of the National Lottery.”.This amendment also arises from the debate on Committee Stage. I presume that, at the moment, the Minister is responsible for parliamentary questions concerning the current national...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister already mentioned the National Roads Authority. I do not think the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport can take a parliamentary question on the NRA because he will be told he has no function in the matter.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: Yes, but the Minister gets my point. I think it is a further weakening of democratic controls if the House cannot seek a response through the Chamber.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 9:In page 7, to delete lines 20 to 25.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 10:In page 7, to delete lines 26 to 32, and in page 8, to delete lines 1 to 11.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 11:In page 8, to delete lines 12 to 23.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 12:In page 8, to delete lines 24 to 27.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 13:In page 8, to delete lines 28 to 38.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 14:In page 9, to delete lines 1 to 8.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 15:In page 9, to delete lines 9 to 18.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 16:In page 9, to delete lines 19 to 29.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 18:In page 9, to delete lines 30 to 32.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 19:In page 9, to delete lines 33 to 37, and in page 10, to delete lines 1 to 19.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 20:In page 10, to delete lines 20 to 38, and in page 11, to delete lines 1 to 3.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 21:In page 11, to delete lines 4 to 6.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 22:In page 11, to delete lines 7 to 12.