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Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 31:In page 25, lines 35 and 36, to delete ", in such manner as it considers appropriate, with" and substitute "with stakeholders including, but not limited to". As it stands, the section reads, "the Authority shall consult, in such manner as it considers appropriate, with" a number of listed bodies. We are not very interested in what it considers appropriate. It has a...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: Line 35 reads, "the Authority shall consult, in such manner as it considers appropriate".

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: Amendment No. 31 is in my name and I thank the Minister for her response. I would like Parliament to tell the bodies the degree of consultation in which they need to engage. Across the sphere there is regulatory capture of regulatory agencies by the bodies they are supposed to regulate in the public interest. Parliament should make a stand on that issue. I appreciate what the Minister has...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I regret that I oppose what the Minister and Senator Ó Clochartaigh said. If one wants independent regulation, one does not hire those who were responsible for all the restrictive practices through the Law Society and Bar Council. It invites regulatory capture. The public will not be convinced. Somebody said it was Irish Water coming back to haunt us. Those who had been wasting...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 35:In page 29, to delete lines 19 to 38, and in page 30, to delete lines 1 to 17. In general, it is a bad principle that people who have operated very successfully in one role defending producers of a product are meant to turn around and become defenders of the consumers of the product. It invites regulatory capture and will not impress the public. The staff dealt with...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 37:In page 32, line 19, after “Authority” to insert “subject to the approval of the Minister”. The amendment relates to who sets the fees charged by the authority. On Committee Stage, I proposed that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission might. This was unacceptable, which I accept. Does the Minister set the fees, or will the...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: The amendment to which the Minister referred was No. 183.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I do not wish to move that amendment.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 39:In page 35, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:"(d) the right of direct access to a barrister other than through a solicitor;". This amendment concerns right of access to a barrister without the need to have a solicitor present. It could be a major way of cutting costs in the system. There are barristers in the Law Library who cannot be approached...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I will press the amendment. It states that "without prejudice to the functions of the authority referred to, the authority shall, following appropriate public consultation, prepare and furnish reports to the Minister". That is what we are asking for. Will it, please, prepare a report on an idea that has been around for ages, a right of direct access to a barrister, other than through a...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 40:In page 36, line 32, to delete “4 years” and substitute “1 year”. I welcome the Minister. The Bill states:"A report in respect of the matter referred to in subsection (1)(b)—(a) shall be provided to the Minister within 4 years of the establishment day," As much of what we are attempting to do in the Bill is well known, why is there...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I just wish that we were moving faster, but I accept what the Minister has said. She is the person who is trying to accomplish this task and we are on the Opposition benches.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I express the wish that it should happen sooner and earlier than four years. I thank the Minister for her response.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 41:In page 37, to delete lines 14 to 18 and substitute the following:“(5) Reports on the creation of a new profession of conveyancer including the conduct of conveyancing by other professions, the extent of monopolistic provision of legal services in the State and the right of direct access to a barrister other than through a barrister shall be provided to the...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister, as always, for her thoughtful and courteous reply. To return to the website for returning emigrants, it says that in Ireland a solicitor must be qualified and registered with the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. All practising solicitors must hold a practice certificate issued by the Law Society on an annual basis. Unlike the UK and other EU countries, there are...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: One of the rules in dealing with monopolies over the years is that one never asks them for permission to have their monopoly dispensed with. One does it in the wider national interest. I wish to press the amendment because many desirable elements of what the Minister has said appeal to people but it really annoys people that the purchase of a house in this country involves such monopolistic...

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times: Statements (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister to the House. Looking at the notes on this issue prepared for Members by the Oireachtas Library and Research Service and updated on 15 February, the Minister inherited a situation where Irish expenditure on health is actually higher than the OECD average: $3,890 as against an average of $3,484 for the OECD. The United Kingdom figure is $3,289. There are resource...

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times: Statements (26 Nov 2015)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Acting Leader and the Minister for their generosity. Perhaps we could move on rather than discussing the order. Senator Craughwell's views on health would more usefully take up the time that the Acting Leader and Minister have so generously provided.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: In Paris, yesterday, the Taoiseach promised new legislation in the current Dáil session to tackle climate change. I suggest that the legislation start in this House in view of the fine debate we had recently on climate change. If the Taoiseach brought the Bill to this House, it would be an improvement in the context of tackling the climate change issue. I compliment the organisers of...

Seanad: Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (1 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and the Bill she has brought before us. The judgment was that articulated goods vehicles fall to be taxed at the non-agricultural tractor rate of €333 annually. That might have been how our learned lordships interpreted the law, but the economics of it are that articulated vehicles use lots of roads. They have a high PCU value, whereby...