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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is it? Will the Minister explain it?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Consistent with my opposition to the Bill generally, I oppose the section. A regulator is needed where one was not needed before. A separate body is required because whereas the Minister was previously a shareholder of the national lottery, he will not be under the new regime. That is proof that this is privatisation. One considers the experience of two sectors where regulators failed...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is correct to point out that the failings in the financial and taxi sectors were not solely the fault of the regulators. However, they were also not simply due to policies or light touch regulation. There was a deliberate policy of deregulation of the financial sector. That was not only the cavalier attitude of the former Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy. A general...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am speaking directly to the issue. The Minister is well aware that we are told the issues raised are not in the remit of Departments and we are directed to the relevant regulator. The reason the citizen has come to the politician is because he or she cannot get an answer from the regulator. The fact that the new regulator will be funded by a private company, even though part of the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to the discussion we just had about the failures of regulation in the past. The Minister explained it by saying the attitude of the Government of the day was the problem.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was exactly what I was talking about. If the Chairman would let me finish-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Notwithstanding the Chairman's attitude, I will make the point I was going to make, which is that the Minister acknowledged the problem with regulators can be that the Government of the day, which writes the legislation for a regulator, can often be at fault in the failures of the regulator. In so far as this section sets out the framework around which a regulator can be made accountable for...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One is allowed raise issues on Committee Stage.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am substituting for someone.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am making the point now. There are no limits on my making the point now.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then I do not understand why the Chairman is cutting across me.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will respect the Chair if the Chair is being fair.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the ruling of the Chair?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am allowed to make a comment on this section and on the possible need for it to be expanded.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just did so. I said that as far as I was concerned-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do. I wanted to continue a couple of minutes ago. I am making the point that this section seems to have a very narrow set of reasons for removing a regulator and none seems to relate to the potential failure of a regulator to regulate properly. Maybe the Minister will think about that, as I will do. That is something at which we might look before we conclude the Bill.

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the face of it, one would say there is nothing wrong with this Bill. Its stated purpose is to promote more responsible lending, particularly in the context of the mortgage crisis the country faces and that this was a condition of the troika agreement. I have no doubt the Government and the troika will present this as proof that they are getting serious about regulating the banking and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (28 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Israelis are only allowing fishermen from Gaza to fish three miles from the coast; if he will consider making a statement of protest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15569/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of students that have applied for the MEI Chinese adult pilot programme; and the number who have been refused. [15748/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (28 Mar 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understood it was deferring it pending discussions.