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- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: Yes I did. It is fair to say that the Arms Trial information referred to by An Cathaoirleach would already have been clearly covered by the legislation.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: That is a bit, respectfully-----
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: That is a bit fatuous, in that the arming of certain groups in the State, even though their target was not this State but was the British involvement in Northern Ireland, was considered a threat to this State. Hence the Offences against the State Act and all of the apparatus that is around that. This section is so broad that it is inherently open to abuse. I want to be very clear when I...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 43: In page 54, to delete lines 33 to 38, and in page 55, to delete lines 1 to 5. The purpose of these amendments is to continue to facilitate the Garda Commissioner in appointing persons as members of Garda staff. However, they also remove the effect of civilian staff of An Garda Síochána who are civil servants of the Government immediately before the...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: It seems to be the case both to me and to the few serving members of An Garda Síochána who talk to me.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: In any event, I am not pressing the amendment but I reserve the right to return to it on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: I am not withdrawing the amendment; I am just not pressing it. If I withdraw it I cannot raise it on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: Okay. Once that is indicated I will withdraw it. I thought there was something in the so-called salient rulings of the Chair. They are sort of a dark-----
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: I would not recommend it for an evening's reading.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: I will press the amendment without calling a vote.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: That is fine.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 44: In page 55, lines 6 and 7, to delete “pursuant to an order under subsection (5)”.
- Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: Is amendment No. 8 part of the cluster?
- Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 7: In page 9, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsections (1)and (2), the Minister may make regulation requiring that the regulator shall, in consultation with Teagasc - the Agriculture and Food Development Authority - collect such information as is required to ascertain the cost of production in the...
- Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: I regret that it is a fallacy to say the regulator has strong powers to obtain information. There is a Sinn Féin amendment which I assume the Minister will accept that provides that the regulator may seek various pieces of information from businesses in the food chain. All the regulator can do is seek it. It is not an offence to not provide the information. It is not an offence...
- Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: Yes.
- Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who work in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, who do their jobs fairly right across the country. I am talking about the propensity for people at the very top of the Department to find their way into top jobs with the processors and dairy co-ops in the sector they had previously regulated. I believe that is a problem. I do...
- Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: I move amendment No. 8: In page 9, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(3) (a) Without prejudice to the generality of subsections (1)and (2), proscription of sale or resale of certain agricultural or food products below their cost of production in the State may be prohibited by regulation. (b) A party to a contract or commercial relationship for the supply of...
- Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: It is the richest part of the country.
- Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)
Michael McNamara: I did; I mentioned Spain.