Results 501-520 of 11,861 for speaker:Brian Hayes
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I propose a supplementary order, which the Acting Chairman will receive shortly, "That No. 2 be suspended until 8 p.m. this evening."
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I propose that the House stand suspended until 8 p.m.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I have only one question. The Acting Chairman, as a distinguished Member of the House, will know that Committee Stage affords Members on both sides an opportunity to put straight questions and receive straight answers.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: Correct. My question will take about ten seconds. Will the Minister of State give me a straight answer to a straight question? In the background text to the report written by the Information Commissioner and to which Senators have referred, it is stated that appendix 2 was given to the Department, which the Minister of State represents, on 5 February after he became aware that the Bill to...
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: Pol Pot could have said the same.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: Rubbish.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: To be helpful, this side of the House put forward a suggestion as an opportunity for the Minister of State and his officials to consider in detail the substantial report that has now been issued by the Information Commissioner. That proposal on our part was meant to be helpful and I ask the Leader, as she has now entered the House, to consider the proposal in light of the report circulated to...
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I know the Minister is anxious to reply to the question put on this side. Would it be helpful to get his reply?
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I thank the Leader for her intervention.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: Not even the Minister of State is saying that. He is prepared to accept some of the recommendations.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: I thank the Minister of State for his direct answer to the question I asked about what the Department of Finance did when it received the information from the commissioner. He says that the Information Commissioner put it on the Internet. That is useful. Why, therefore, was there no reference to this at any point in the speech by the Minister for Finance or the summation by the Minister of...
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: For the purpose of clarity on this, where new information has come to light in the course of a debate, while the Chair may not be obliged to take those Committee Stage amendments, account must surely be taken of the fact that we were handed this report only this afternoon, which would require Senators on this side of the House to frame new amendments.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: This is the anonymous Internet.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: All Members have the right to introduce legislation, not just the Government.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: We are asking questions on the section.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: On 5 February.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: We are clear on this.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: Once the principal Act is amended one can bring forward any amendment.
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: In reply to an earlier question from Senator Henry, the Minister of State said that when the Department looked at the commissioner's proposals concerning the new incorporation of the word "person", there were, to use his words, legal and practical difficulties in the application of this. Will he illuminate what some of those difficulties are? When the Department had discourse with the...
- Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)
Brian Hayes: We are all trying to be constructive. The Minister of State used the term practical and legal difficulties in response to the proposal on this new use of "person" made by the commissioner on 5 February. Can he give some examples of that? What was their response to the Department's observations on it?