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Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ——on foot of a Government decision taken on 23 September this year.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I can. I will assist the Ceann Comhairle by stating this legislation will be prepared by the Government as soon as possible and that the Government and I are quite capable of multitasking.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Deputy Upton asked two questions. First, the heads of the Irish Sports Council (amendment) Bill, were approved by the Government on 4 July 2006. A decision has yet to be made on whether to proceed with the establishment of the subsidiary companies and the expected publication date is in the middle of 2009. As for the planning question, existing legislation enacted by a previous Government...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ——already governs this matter. However, further measures to strengthen the law in this regard are contained in the planning and development (amendment) Bill, for which the heads are expected at the end of this year. Its expected publication date is next year.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The heads of the mental capacity Bill were approved by the Government on 3 September this year. It will be published in the middle of next year.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Ireland signed the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters on 25 June 1998.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Progress towards ratification is closely aligned with work at EU level. In that context, the European Union has adopted two directives as part of the ratification process for the convention.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Regulations transposing the European Communities access to information on the environment directive were signed and came into effect on 1 May 2007. The process to transpose the other directive is well advanced, with legislation completed to amend the majority of the relevant consent systems pertaining to that directive within an Irish legislative framework. Work is continuing on the...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: As Deputy Higgins will be aware, it can be highly complicated when ethical objectives must be realised within an EU framework. However, in respect of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, I can assist the Deputy further. The criminal justice (United Nations Convention Against Corruption) Bill, which allows for the ratification of that convention, now has been amalgamated with the...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: No legislation is promised and I am not aware of any plans at present.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Government is determined to preserve the principle of community rating and will bring forward proposals in due course.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I understand the implementation is taking place by way of secondary legislation.

Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: When I introduced the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act to this House, I made it clear the disruption in international financial markets required a strong and decisive response by the Government to underpin the commitment of the authorities to Ireland's financial stability. This Government moved swiftly to put in place a guarantee to ensure Irish financial institutions' access to...

Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: With regard to the shortage of credit for particular businesses and especially small and medium sized Irish firms, I have asked my Department to liaise with the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator and the financial institutions to assess the reality of the many claims put forward in that regard. On capitalisation, which was the main burden of the question put by Deputy Bruton, the Deputy...

Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy did not qualify it. He would appreciate I was going to make the point that the degree of liquidity attracted by the banks through the guarantee was actually greater than the amount of liquidity available to the banks as of 1 September. On that date, as Deputy Bruton is aware, the difficulties had not yet emerged that led to the giving of the guarantee in late September. On the...

Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I accept the point made by Deputy Bruton that as a result of the degree of supervision by the State of credit institutions entailed by the guarantee, there is an onus on the State to assist institutions if they come up with appropriate proposals.

Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I assure Deputy Bruton we do not rest on our oars. We did not rest on our oars in giving the guarantee in the first place. Our political difficulty in Europe was that we were ahead in giving the guarantee.

Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: We did not rest on our oars in bringing forward the budget either and we will not do so with this issue.

Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The credit institutions financial support scheme provides a guarantee for covered institutions until 29 September 2010. I have been advised by the Financial Regulator that it recently commissioned PriceWaterhouseCoopers to conduct a review of loan portfolios of the covered credit institutions. PriceWaterhouseCoopers is currently progressing with this work and the Financial Regulator will...

Banking Sector Regulation. (6 Nov 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy did not say that.