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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Which the Deputy will get, as always.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: If the Deputy is challenging the authority of the Chair, we have a problem.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Is the Deputy challenging the authority of the Chair?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Therefore, the Deputy is not challenging the authority of the Chair?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Perhaps the Minister will read out the memorandum for the section.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I wish to clarify a matter. I was involved in the preparation of a substantive report on the establishment of Irish Water when I chaired the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht. The official sitting next to me is one of the main people who prepared the report. I understand that the provision we are debating is the same as the way Bord...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I call Deputy Donnelly.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Timmins's intention to table an amendment on Report Stage is noted.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: As the proceedings on sections 20 to 31, inclusive, have concluded, the postponed division on amendment No. 54 will now be taken. The question on amendment No. 54 is that the new section be there inserted and on that question a division has been challenged. Pursuant to Standing Orders, the division will now be taken by the clerk to the committee.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Allow me intervene here to bring in Deputies Doherty and Boyd Barrett.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: This is repetition.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We are scheduled to break for lunch at 1 p.m. It would be helpful if we could conclude the debate on this section before then.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We are required to break for lunch at this point.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: If the debate drags on, I will suspend proceedings.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I propose to suspend the sitting until 2.15 p.m. We will resume with section 39, amendment No. 66 in the name of the Minister. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I have been informed that there will be some activity involving the Ceann Comhairle's office concerning the availability of archives on the Oireachtas website in the foyer outside these committee rooms sometime later this afternoon and that might cause interference with the timing of our sitting.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We might need to schedule a break at that time.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, is in attendance on behalf of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, this afternoon.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Is that the Matt Talbot school of taxation?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I will bring in Deputy Boyd Barrett and then bring in Deputy Pearse Doherty.