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- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 25:In page 7, to delete lines 33 to 38.
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 26:In page 7, to delete line 39, and in page 8, to delete lines 1 to 7.
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 33:In page 9, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:"(f) Secretaries General and Assistant Secretaries General;".The amendments we are discussing relate to the designation of public officials under this legislation. The Minister has included in section 6, as it stands following Committee Stage, a list of people who will have to register under the regulation of...
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: My good constituency colleague, Deputy Charles Flanagan, was made Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. He does not know whether he did a good job or a bad job, as he was moved to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade six weeks later, yet we include-----
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: I say that tongue in cheek. It was to his credit that he got the promotion. However, he was only in the Department of Children and Youth Affairs for six weeks, but he is captured in this legislation while that Department's Secretary General is not. I saw an e-mail yesterday outlining that a new Secretary General had been approved by the Government. That person could be in place for the...
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: I will allow the Minister to respond, but I will revert later.
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: The Tánaiste will be aware that many people are concerned about data protection and PPS numbers. There has been a debacle on that issue with regard to Irish Water, which asked for PPS numbers and subsequently withdrew the request. The Government, through its agencies, is proceeding with the national postcode system. Is the Government introducing legislation for data protection...
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: Which Bill?
- Order of Business (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: With regard to the postcode system.
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: I understand what the Minister is saying, which is that he agrees with me that these people should be included but he will not put it in the legislation. From the perspective of this side of the House, the public would much prefer to see legislation on a topic such as this being spelled out, in so far as is practical, in the primary Act and not being done through statutory instruments next...
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: Do I only have two minutes?
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: I understand what the Minister is saying, but I am probably arguing this from a slightly different perspective. Legislation should be as comprehensive as is practical and there is no ambiguity about the role of a Secretary General. I understand that those at a technical grade below this grade may have a similar level of responsibility-----
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps this would also be the case for certain regulators.
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: Given that we are speaking about Government Ministers-----
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: -----and Ministers of State, Secretaries General are accounting officers and are a specific identifiable group, and all of the other people mentioned by the Minister are not prevented from being brought in under paragraph (f) or (g). I was in attendance when the Minister and the Taoiseach launched the Civil Service renewal plan, which is a three year action plan for the Civil Service,...
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 34:In page 9, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“(f) Directors of Services of local authorities;”.
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 37:In page 9, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“(f) Chief Executive Officers of local authorities;”.
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 39:In page 9, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following:“7. (1) Where a designated public official is lobbied outside of the State, (in a manner to which section 5 would apply had the lobbying activities occurred within the State) such public official shall be obliged to register the fact that he or she had been so lobbied and the public official shall...
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: Not only have we excluded from the primary legislation all the senior officials who make up what people would generally call-----
- Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Jan 2015)
Seán Fleming: The Minister has excluded the permanent government from the primary legislation.