Results 4,741-4,760 of 11,786 for speaker:Niall Collins
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: Deputy Pat Breen has changed his position.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: Yes, the Deputy has.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: The Deputy was marching up and down O'Connell Street a few years ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Insolvency Services: Insolvency Service of Ireland (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: I thank Mr. O'Connor and his team for appearing before us. The ISI sent members a box of information leaflets that were very well written. They are in my office and I have been giving them to people who contact me. I attended the sitting of the Circuit Court in Limerick a couple of weeks ago. A total of 219 cases were being heard by the registrar that day. The registrar asked every one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Insolvency Services: Insolvency Service of Ireland (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: I ask for clarification on the proposal around the bank veto which has been described as a type of examinership. Where agreement cannot be reached between the debtor and the creditor they will go to the court. I ask Mr. O'Connor to walk us through the process because it has been described as an examinership-type process. How will it work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Insolvency Services: Insolvency Service of Ireland (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: The judge can impose a solution that is binding on the creditor and the debtor. What happens if the judge does not agree?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Insolvency Services: Insolvency Service of Ireland (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: Is Mr. O'Connor saying that if the court decides to impose a solution the bank has no right of appeal, there is no other process and the banks must accept the solution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Insolvency Services: Insolvency Service of Ireland (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: On a further point of clarification, is a time limit envisaged on that leg of the process? I presume it will not be dragged out forever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Insolvency Services: Insolvency Service of Ireland (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: I have a final question about bankruptcy. Mr. Lehane is like Mr. Justice Kevin Cross in that he outlined quite eloquently the case for and against the three-year term. In his view what would be the effect of dropping it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Insolvency Services: Insolvency Service of Ireland (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: I can get away with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Insolvency Services: Insolvency Service of Ireland (27 May 2015)
Niall Collins: He has three simple questions.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)
Niall Collins: Deputy Stagg does not run the House.
- Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)
Niall Collins: That would be a first.
- Order of Business (28 May 2015)
Niall Collins: It is untrue.
- Order of Business (28 May 2015)
Niall Collins: That is a big fat lie.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)
Niall Collins: Here we go. Here comes the punch line.
- Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)
Niall Collins: The Minister corrected the record on all those matters earlier.
- Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)
Niall Collins: The script is a day out of date.
- Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)
Niall Collins: The Deputy will be back in the House correcting the record, as the Minister for Finance did earlier.
- Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)
Niall Collins: He should have listened to the Minister for Finance earlier.