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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Appointments (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: 232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of bodies to which he has the authority to appoint board members. [7023/14]

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: Can I speak to sections 74 and 75?

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: Can I speak to section 75 then?

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: I am proposing an additional amendment. For an amendment to be discussed on Report Stage it must be notified on Committee Stage and this is the most appropriate time to do it. I am not certain that I want to do it but I seek clarification. The Minister outlined the development of the legal professions in Ireland and the pace of change since 1870. It is probably not accurate to say there...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: There will be practising barristers who are employed by the Attorney General's office or other Departments and there will be practising barristers who are employed to provide legal services by banks or other corporations but is it the case that there will be independent barristers who are not members of the Law Library?

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: It is welcome that amendment No. 172 will provide for the continuation of a unitary roll. I was under a misapprehension from what the Minister had said at our last meeting that the Bar Council would maintain its roll of practising barristers who were members of the Law Library and that a separate roll would be maintained for non-members.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: That is welcome.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: That is welcome, but I have several questions. The roll will be a public document that I imagine will be available on a website and certain details will be published of all barristers. The details will further the objectives specified in section 9(4) which include informing the public of available legal services and maintaining competition. I have no objection to any of this information...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: Subsection (6) provides for a separate commencement date. Logically, this section should commence with the establishment of the authority. Why is a separate commencement date envisaged? The Minister referred to a levy in his introduction to the amendments under Part 8. I presume there will be a cost in being entered on the roll of barristers. Will the cost be the same for all...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: I also raised education and access and how that will be paid for.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: What about the issue of education and maintaining as large a number of pupillages as possible?

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: Before we finish the final parts of the Bill, I feel obliged to bring this up at this stage. I was encouraged by what the Minister said just before the break. Will an amendment be included to the effect that any rule of law prohibiting either a barrister or a legal practitioner from instituting or prosecuting legal proceedings to recover professional fees owed to them is hereby abolished?...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: It may be necessary to include that this is without prejudice to any rule relating to liability for professional negligence because the two were linked at one point. Recent House of Lords decisions - maybe 100 years ago - separated the two, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: I welcome the allocation of €8.8 million for the repair of the publicly owned harbour network. To clarify, is this allocation part of the €70 million provision the Government announced after the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday or in addition to it? Dr. Beamish made the distinction that coastal protection works are a matter for the Office of Public Works while piers and so on are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: I referred to correspondence dating back beyond 1992.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: If it is the case that coastal flooding and erosion and inland flooding have been unified, why are landowners in west County Clare and along the Shannon Estuary being told that certain infrastructure is the responsibility of the Office of Public Works, while other elements of infrastructure are the responsibility of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: That is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: Is the €8.8 million part of, or in addition to, the €70 million that was announced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: What is the difference between a marina and a pier-harbour?