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Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I move amendment No. 5: In page 5, line 29, to delete "has" and substitute "is likely to have". This amendment seeks to ensure consistency in the application of the Competition Act so that all transgressions of the Act can be regarded as capable of civil or criminal prosecution as the case may be.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: With my macular oedema, I had not spotted the misspelling.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I did not type it.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: We will not quibble about it. I move amendment No. 6: In page 5, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: "(6) An undertaking that engages in an activity that is prohibited by this section shall be guilty of an offence in the same manner and with the same effect as if the undertaking had committed an offence under section 4 or section 5 of the Competition Act 2002.". This amendment...

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: Amendment No. 8 seeks to allow small businesses access to the District Court to seek any orders necessary to restrain any breaches of section 15B which should be a more cost-effective and accessible means of securing relief for many small and medium enterprises.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: Would the Minister not regard it as preferable if a civil or criminal prosecution could be taken? One could have a choice ofweapons so to speak.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I move amendment No. 7: In page 5, line 49, after "the" to insert "District Court or in the". I have already outlined the reasoning behind this amendment, namely, to secure relief for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I understand the Minister's rationale. I tabled the amendment purely from the point of view of accessibility and cost effectiveness for small businesses.

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I take on board his point about High Court judges with specific expertise in dealing with competition law matters and so on. I have no problem with the Minister's reasoning on this matter but I was motivated from the point of view of small businesses in provincial and rural Ireland who would more readily have access to the District Court. There will be some time between us dealing with the...

Seanad: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I thank the Minister and his officials for their courtesy even if we will have to agree to disagree. Unfortunately, we see this Bill as weakening a number of key protections for consumers and relaxing certain regulations dealing with the relationship between suppliers and the major multiples without any obvious benefit to the consumer. An overriding principle of my party is that we should...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: Aontaím leis an Seanadóir O'Toole mar gheall ar an tuarascáil ar a raibh sé ag caint. I agree with what Senators O'Toole and Maurice Hayes have said with regard to glossy reports. Enormous savings would be made if it could be agreed that such reports be published on the Internet, rather than being sent to people and largely going straight into the waste paper basket. It was acknowledged...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I have, of course. I would like to ask about that extremely beautiful, famous old world cottage at the heart of the national park——

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: It is in Killarney. I speak, of course, of Dinis cottage, for which planning permission was obtained and work was to be carried out. I ask why that work is not happening. What is happening? This is a place that we must see restored.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: Visitors are extremely fond of it. I would not like to see Christmas come and the staff of the Great Southern Hotel Group left in the dark about their future.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: It had, but somehow nothing has happened yet.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 Dec 2005)

Paul Coghlan: We are all socialists.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Paul Coghlan: Some important points were made by Senators Brian Hayes and O'Toole with which I fully agree. On the question of privilege, we all believe and would accept it is vitally important that the private papers of Members of both Houses would be protected. As Senator Brian Hayes noted, we all believe the Members involved in this action acted properly in going to the then Minister with the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Jan 2006)

Paul Coghlan: We are in coalition.

Seanad: Employment Issues: Motion. (25 Jan 2006)

Paul Coghlan: I also welcome the Minister of State and his officials to the House and I thank the Labour Party for bringing this motion to the floor of the Seanad. It gives the House a chance to bring up many of the issues that are raised in the Labour Party document, entitled A Fair Place to Work and Live, and many other issues which have been the talk of the nation for some years. Nobody could have...

Seanad: Employment Issues: Motion. (25 Jan 2006)

Paul Coghlan: He is a very efficient speed reader.