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Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 212:In page 86, line 36, to delete "4 years after the commencement of section 85, and every 5 years" and substitute "2 years after the commencement of section 85, and every 2 years".

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 218:In page 89, to delete lines 16 and 17.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 220:In page 92, to delete lines 28 and 29.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 226:In page 100, to delete lines 9 to 12.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 231:In page 102, line 31, to delete "may" and substitute "shall".

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 235:In page 104, line 30, to delete “14 days” and substitute “28 days”.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister. If that were possible, I would second what the Minister has said.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: It is an appeal period. I support the Minister.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 236:In page 109, line 33, to delete "than 15 per cent lower".

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 237:In page 109, line 35, after "adjudication" to insert the following:"provided that no client shall be responsible for costs incurred by the practitioner where the said practitioner has not disclosed the legal costs that will be incurred in relation to the matter concerned irrespective of whether the said practitioner has set out the basis on which the legal costs are...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 238:In page 110, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:"(5) A legal practitioner who does not comply with section 122(1) shall not be entitled to recover from the client any legal costs in relation to the matter concerned.".

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 242:In page 116, to delete lines 11 and 12. The term "senior counsel" is a term we acknowledge in law and it refers to members of the inner Bar. Under the legislation, a solicitor can be called senior counsel. While I am not particularly enamoured of titles, it meant something in the past which it will not in future, given that it will be extended to somebody who,...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister. I was hoping people could approach a barrister without having a solicitor present. I appreciate the Minister's point, and withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: Having reached amendment No. 279, I note that since amendment No. 244, we have dealt with more than 14 pages of amendments. We have made 36 amendments. This is the same as the page 41 issue we had last night. Page 120 should have been reprinted for this Stage of the discussion. It is unrecognisable from page 120 in the Bill.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 283:In page 124, line 35, after "may" to insert "not". Amendment No. 283 expresses concern about the fact the authority can waive educational qualifications by regulation. The Bill states people may be exempted from additional requirements to attend a course of education or training, sit and pass an examination or serve a period of apprenticeship or pupilage. If...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister and the Senator for their responses. There should be no dumbing down of standards, and exemptions should be granted extremely parsimoniously.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: This is the point I am trying to make. In all of our colleges most people take their courses and pass examinations, and I would not support the thought of any mass exemption.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister. Senator Sheahan mentioned that he is standing in for Senator Michael D'Arcy. We are working on the banking inquiry report. I thank the Minister for the evidence he gave when he appeared before us. We have robust tax receipts. It is wise that mention has been made of keeping some of these out of financing day-to-day expenditure in case they are one-offs or...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: -----on trying to improve on Postman Pat, who is doing well? In many other ways, we are going in the right direction. The 9% VAT rate for tourism and the abolition of the air travel tax gave rise to proven results but there are concerns about some hotels, particularly in Dublin. I do not know whether the 9% VAT rate can be geographically differentiated but many Senators have told me that...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister. I speak as a total unbeliever in risk equalisation payments. I believe in open enrolment community rating and lifetime cover. No one was ever refused cover on any basis by the new competing insurance companies that came into the market after the turn of the millennium. The success of BUPA, in particular, was that it could insure both young and old people for a...