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Seanad: Water Services Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (13 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I was asking about the price to the consumer? Is it known what the consumer will pay per litre?

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill Amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (13 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: Go raibh maith agat a Aire Stáit.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Bill and thank Senators Bacik, Moran and Power for blazing the trail on this, as well as Deputies Ó Ríordáin, Lyons, Conway and Hannigan who are promoting it in the other House. We are making progress in dismantling the apparatus of discrimination, not least in the North where the society seemed to be built on discrimination. The progress that has been made there is a model...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I rise to concur with Senators Daly and Bacik in wishing the best of luck to the Taoiseach in his visit to the White House on Monday. As the House is aware, the EU decided this week to open formal negotiations with the member states on the EU-US free trade deal. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton, has welcomed that. Commissioner Karel De Gucht will be in charge...

Seanad: An Straitéis 20 Bliain don Gaeilge 2010-30: Statements (14 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: Tá fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Molaim na Seanadóirí Ó Murchú, Noone agus Moran, agus molaim an Seanadóir Ó Clochartaigh go háirithe, as an Ghaeilge líofa atá aige. Mhol an tAire Stáit Máirtín Ó Cadhain agus tá an traidisiún sin ann go fóill le Cathal Ó hÁinle, Eoghan Mac Cárthaigh agus Máire Ní Bháin. Bhunaigh Henry Flood, ball Pharlaimint Grattan an traidisiún...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the meeting between President Obama and the Taoiseach. In addition to maintaining warm relations between Ireland and the United States, some serious business was carried out. Yesterday's international aircraft order was the largest in history. The Ryanair model of doing business is based on that of Southwest Airlines. President Obama will be most welcome to Ireland next summer....

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (20 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister of State. On the Order of Business the Leader was asked to emphasise to him and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, the importance of deposit insurance. Both Megan Greene who we introduced to the Minister when she attended an international conference last year and Professor Christopher Pissarides, the Nobel prize winner from Cyprus, have stressed the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister to the House. I wish to express my appreciation of what he said on Second Stage yesterday about the research and development issue and the note on the Department's website seeking a cost-benefit analysis of all that area. This was called for by an bord snip nua and by those who responded to the innovation task force. The State has been spending a significant amount...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: We share the same objectives on this section. We are trying to get a growth economy back. We all share that view because we all know the situation that the Minister has had to deal with since he came to office. I wish to comment on the institutional structure for which the Minister has the expertise because he is a former Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts. We are quite good...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister for that welcome news and statement.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I agree with the section. Yesterday, I heard the Minister of State, Deputy Hayes, say that the section refers to a list of countries submitted to the Minister for Finance by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney. It is a list of countries with which Deputy Coveney expects to derive substantial agricultural trade. I did not know what the list was when I first saw...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I move recommendation No. 5: In page 22, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following subsection: ?(2) This section shall not come into effect until the risk equalisation scheme (within the definition of the Health Insurance Act 1994) is under the direction of the Central Bank of Ireland and fully compliant with the Central Bank of Ireland?s regulations.?.My concern in putting down this...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister for his response. I hope we will continue to make progress in this area. What we are finding out from the Milliman report about excessive hospital stays and from journalists about the excessive cost of drugs means this area must be monitored continuously.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: My objective was to save the Exchequer money rather than being adjudged to have cost it money. I am concerned about the section, which was previously section 17 in the explanatory memorandum and deals with people dealing in or developing land. It provides them with loss relief where the decline in the land value has been realised by way of a disposal prior to the claim being made. We are...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister for his response. One of the differences between New Zealand agriculture and ours is that their land prices are much lower and output is much higher. Do we need, in general, to disincentivise land purchasing by people who do not use it for any purpose? Why does land cost so much in this country? Is there a fiscal privilege bound up in it? Was the Irish land and...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I move recommendation No. 15: In page 38, line 5, after ?submits? to insert ?for approval,?.This is a very brief recommendation and I hope it is not contentious. It proposes that certain documents must be submitted to Teagasc. Teagasc should not be viewed as a postbox but should exercise some discretion and approve of the contents of a plan. It should have a role in examining how these...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I appreciate the Minister?s points but what is the point of having Teagasc involved if we do not get its expert views? We can think about what we intend Teagasc to do in this regard over the year. It has much expertise and could help bring agriculture forward. I thank the Minister for his response.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I move recommendation No. 17: In page 49, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following subsection:?(2) This section shall only come into operation following a cost-benefit-analysis by the Minister of Finance indicating superior tax revenues to those foregone as a product of this section as a by-product of increased economic turnover and/or increased employment.?.I will not press this...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Sean Barrett: I believe I have drawn a short straw in addressing this section with a Senator from Killarney in the Chair. Section 22 provides for tax relief for the managing of a property used as a hotel, guesthouse, self-catering accommodation or comparable establishment. Is this not part of the problem from the past where we gave fiscal privilege for the construction of hotels? It did not do much for...