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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Many of them I would say.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: They know you, Victor.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: May I make an observation?

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I assume Senator Boyhan's main objective is to get a positive outcome for councillors.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: It may be possible that the route to get that definitive outcome for councillors is through regulation rather than legislation. I would hate for us to compromise by putting a measure to a vote that the Minister of State has committed to considering by way of regulation. The Senator has got his result. It may be possible that he might compromise, in some shape or form, on pushing a measure...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Environmental Protection Agency Licences (1 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister of State to the House.Today I am raising the issue of the licensing of heavy industries, in particular the licence application made to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, by Irish Cement with regard to its facility in Mungret in my own constituency of Limerick City. The context is that Mungret is now a highly built-up residential area, unlike other locations in...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Environmental Protection Agency Licences (1 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister of State believes the agency has sufficient powers to adequately regulate and monitor such facilities. I believe that is not being done by the EPA, certainly not in terms of the Irish Cement site in Limerick. An emissions monitoring service has only recently been installed in the Mungret area. That should have been in a long time ago. I want to quickly address three elements....

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I want to speak on two things. The House will debate the matter of cervical screening later. Vicky Phelan is a neighbour of mine. I know her well. Tony O'Brien, head of the HSE, stated yesterday that what is happening is a personal blow. For me, a personal blow must come with personal responsibility. It is extraordinary that someone who heads up an organisation of this size is not...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I know. I am passing a general comment.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: It is akin to the manager of a soccer team whose players do not perform saying that it is a personal blow to him that they did not perform but that he has no responsibility for their performance on the playing field. This is a scandal of an unimaginable magnitude for the women involved, brave women such as Vicky Phelan. Earlier, someone wondered whether this matter would be in the public...

Seanad: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (3 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, to the House and commend him on the work he has done. Vicky Phelan is a neighbour of mine and I know her very well. She is an incredible woman, and it is true to say that if she had not refused a gagging clause this story would probably never have come out. I believe the women of Ireland owe her an enormous debt of gratitude. One meets...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Proposals on Taxation of the Digital Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Both witnesses agree that the current tax collection systems have not moved pace with the changes in digital workings worldwide. In many cases, the tax structures harp back to an old industrial type age in terms of the way we are taxing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Proposals on Taxation of the Digital Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: What we are looking for here is common ground. Do the witnesses believe that what is being proposed in Europe is effectively a Trojan horse to bring in a common consolidated corporate tax base, CCCTB, by some of the larger countries?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Proposals on Taxation of the Digital Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Is there sufficient scope within the current OECD proposals to address this matter on a worldwide basis? If the current OECD proposals are insufficient, what are the areas that need to be broadened within the OECD to provide a global competitive solution? Tagging on that, I refer to more flexible economies like Ireland. We are exceptionally flexible. We have a small, open economy. Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Proposals on Taxation of the Digital Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: In computer parlance, one wants an operating system as well as the software.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will try to follow Senator Norris. The main reason I wish to speak on this Bill is to say that no one should be above the law, whether for stealing an item from a shop or for white-collar crime. There is a perception among the public that white-collar crime is not something for which people can be sent to jail or held accountable but this legislation will do that and it needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome Mr. Breen and Ms Foley to the committee. Vicky Phelan is a neighbour of mine. I know the type of person she is and what she has gone through. The briefing note given to the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, on 16 April states the State Claims Agency had advised it believed the issue of non-disclosure would fall or be dismissed and, therefore, there was no exposure for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect, this is about life or death. When it became known that there was an incorrect reading of a smear test in 2014 and which was not given to Ms Phelan until 2017, three years later, surely at best it was gross incompetence. Mr. Breen is speaking about the whole issue of intent. Surely, as the officer charged with legally advising the HSE, Mr. Breen should have said on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Breen, that is great. However, actions speak louder than words. Mr. Breen could have advised the State to accept liability. Both the State Claims Agency and CPL could have come together. However, no offer was made to Vicky Phelan prior to the court case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: The settlement was based on an incorrect reading of the smear test on day one by the laboratory in the US. It was not about non-disclosure.