Results 5,001-5,020 of 7,024 for speaker:Willie Penrose

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: We are all happy with that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: The Minister read through this section, spoke about advising the board and finalising the work on the race fixtures committee. While that is grand, I do not understand why the membership of the race fixtures committee should be limited to members of HRI. Section 19(3) of the 1994 Act reads, "The membership of the race fixtures committee referred to in paragraphs (b)to (d)of subsection...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: I know what the Chairman is saying.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: The Chair might give us a couple of minutes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: This brings it back to owners and everything else. Owners buy the horses and pay the entry fees, the trainers' fees and the fees to HRI which first got my attention, and there was a flood of stuff into me about it, which is what got me angry with HRI. There are people with substantial expertise who are on the owners committee. I happen to have been an owner myself and was a member of the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: We started that without finishing the other.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: I was about to light on that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: I thank the Minister. This is a very important amendment. My worry is that the representative body of authorised racecourses includes some very powerful bodies, and the voices of smaller racecourses might be overcome. I hope that is not the position and that ordinary racecourses have their voices heard. It is important because property rights and legal issues are involved. If something is...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: My amendment No. 41 is part of what the Minister has already done.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: It is. More succinctly, I note that hunter registration has an important integrity role. That has been overlooked in the debate, although not purposely. It should continue to be done by the National Hunt committee. I appeal to the Minister to look at the issue with the parliamentary draftspeople. I accept that the money will be paid through the HRI at the end of the process and go back....

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: I move amendment No. 55:In page 16, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“(4) Section 42(2) (as inserted by Section 7 of the Act of 2001) should be replaced with the following:“(2) If in respect of the level of or costs of integrity services or the provision of information pertaining to the integrity services budget in any particular year, or disputes in relation to...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: I assume it is catered for so I will withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: Will the Minister look at some of the procedures? Following the Supreme Court judgment of Mr. Justice O'Donnell in the Lambe and O'Connell case, section 45 seems to be working quite well. It was assumed a disciplinary structure was in place and there was no need for this. The Minister said he would bring back impartial procedures for appeals against sanctions imposed under subsection (3)...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (10 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for a minimum percentage of Irish works in radio music programmes and for that purpose to amend the Broadcasting Act 2009, and to provide for related matters. I seek leave to introduce the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2015 on the floor of the Dáil today. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and my colleagues for...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (10 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: Next year, no doubt, Irish radio will pull out all the stops and do what they do every St. Patrick's Day. As Mr. Duhan put it, they will fill the prime time airwaves with an array of the best Irish music that we have to offer. Given that 2016 marks 100 years of Irish independence, the radio bosses that control our airways may even extend the remit for Irish music to be included in prime time...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (10 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (10 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: 63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to have an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath immediately dealt with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44628/15]

Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: I welcome the introduction of the Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015, the central core of which contains the objectives which together with my party colleagues I sought to achieve when I published the Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2015. I thank the Minister for adopting the central principles of that Bill and enacting them in to law. I also thank all Deputies who engaged in a...

Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Willie Penrose: With sleight-of-hand and adroitness, which only financial institutions can display, it was neatly transferred to the borrower-debtor.