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- Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (1 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the information available to his Department in regard to the number of management or senior staff in Bord na gCon who have had their positions terminated in the course of the past five years and in respect of whom financial settlements were made; the amount paid in respect of such settlements; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The last politician to try to claim such credit for a sporting victory was Charlie Haughey in Paris.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: What about amendment No. 3?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: We debated it, but I understood that the amendment in Deputy Hogan's name was simply that the words proposed to be deleted stand. This is to insert a new section and does not alter the words that are to stand.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I believe the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is incorrect. The division on the previous amendment in Deputy Hogan's name decided that the words proposed to be deleted should stand. I am not altering that, but I seek in amendment No. 3 to insert a new subsection in addition to the words that should stand. I know there may not be a debate on it, since we have had that, but I wish to put the amendment...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: No, the House decided that the words in the Bill should stand. I am not altering them.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: That makes no sense in common English. The section stands, but I wish to insert a new subsection. I simply wish the matter to be put.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I agree that the words will stand, but I wish to add a new subsection in addition. May amendment No. 3 simply be put?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I do not propose that any word be changed. I propose that an additionalââ
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: What we debated and what the House divided on was the amendment in Deputy Hogan's name, which was to alter the wording of subsection 15B. I now propose simply to add a new subsection.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I would not have agreed to the grouping of amendments had I known that. Predatory pricing is the meat of the issue, and I simply wantedââ
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I have the Ceann Comhairle's letter to the effect that this amendment is out of order. This matter was discussed on Committee Stage by leave of the Chair and the Minister responded to it. Amendment No. 10 is an amendment to the parent Act, namely, the Competition Act 2002. I presume that it runs foul of the Long Title ruling. Is that where the difficulty arises?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: As the Ceann Comhairle is aware, this Bill is the Competition (Amendment) Bill and its purpose is to amend the primary Act, namely, the Competition Act 2002. The amendment's purpose is also to amend the primary Act. This is an important issue on which the Minister commented on Committee Stage. While I do not know whether he would allow an adjustment to the Long Title to encompass this...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 7, to delete lines 3 and 4. As the Ceann Comhairle noted, amendment No. 12 is related. This is simply a technical amendment. It seems to me on simple reading that subsection 5(2) states that insofar as it is unrepealed, the Restrictive Practices Act 1972 is repealed. The Bill's Schedule includes all the enactments which are to be repealed and it seems to me...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: These must be abnormal circumstances.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I still do not understand the logic, inasmuch as the Minister may bring in any section of the Bill at his pleasure. Someone wishing to establish what provisions have been repealed by it will examine the Schedule. However, the repeal of the Restrictive Practices Act will not be noted in the Schedule. This seems to be both inelegant and confusing for potential readers of the Bill and contrary...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: This Bill is based on populism. There was an outcry about stealth taxes and rising prices in this country last year which, I suppose, was captured most definitively by the work of Mr. Hobbs on television. The Minister's response was not to look at genuine cartels, at what was happening among some of the professions or to take on real vested interest, but by way of populism to make an issue of...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I thought the Minister of State had already spoken on Fifth Stage.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Is he?