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Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I ask the Minister to explain the impact of amendment No. 16 relating to the business plan.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I will second it for debating purposes.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I seek clarification.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: The query related to section 118 and the amendment provides some clarification.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I thank the Minister and his hard working officials for their work in preparing the Bill, bringing it before the committee, the Dáil and Seanad. It has been a long process and hopefully the result of our deliberations will be an Act that will bring a degree of hope, certainty and optimism in cases where there is not at present. The debate in the Seanad showed the House at its best, with...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I ask the Minister to explain the impact of amendment No. 16 relating to the business plan.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I will second it for debating purposes.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I seek clarification.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: The query related to section 118 and the amendment provides some clarification.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I thank the Minister and his hard working officials for their work in preparing the Bill, bringing it before the committee, the Dáil and Seanad. It has been a long process and hopefully the result of our deliberations will be an Act that will bring a degree of hope, certainty and optimism in cases where there is not at present. The debate in the Seanad showed the House at its best, with...

Seanad: National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I understand this matter relates to section 2, which is the inclusions, rather than section 3, the exclusions. There is currently a great national debate about the budgetary implications for carers. Perhaps it is, to use a word the Minister used earlier, "obvious", but across the country tens of thousands are in receipt of either carer's allowance or carer's benefit, to apply for which one...

Seanad: National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: Speaking on a similar vein, there are home helps. There are tens of thousands working in a home-help type arrangement. As the Minister and Senators will be aware, ten or 15 years ago the home-help service was mostly informal. Now it has become much more formal where a minimum wage rate applies. Generally speaking, it would not be a familial relationship. Of course, there are cases where...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the Minister, and I am sure he is more than sufficiently robust to deal with the views of Senator Cullinane. No topic comes up in the Seanad more frequently than the health service. It would be useful for both the Minister and the House, therefore, for him to come to the House early in the new year to discuss a broad range of health issues, when charges can be answered and the...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: In economics, false concepts do not work in the long term. They have never worked anywhere and they do not work in this market either. Risk equalisation may be necessary in the very short term but we must try to move beyond the current system. We must recognise, with deep concern, the huge numbers of people who can no longer afford private health insurance, putting further pressure on the...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the Minister of State, who started his parliamentary career in this Chamber. I look forward to his response to some of the comments. I agree with much of what the previous speaker said, but not the entire package. He has raised pertinent points which are worthy of observation and comment. A good starting point for the debate and where we stand politically is the Staff of the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Local Government Reform (13 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the Minister of State with responsibility for Gaeltacht affairs to the House. I will not make a detailed submission. If we had a concept known as parliamentary questions in this House, which we might have the next time around, I would be placing same but my Adjournment motion speaks for itself. Cork County Council is unique in that it has three health divisions and, therefore,...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Local Government Reform (13 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I thank the Minister of State for attending but in respect of the response, which I know comes from the Department, my query should not be beyond answer. I am disappointed, therefore, that the Minister of State was not provided with an answer because my question is very basic. Unlike any other county in this Republic, under the law of the land, there are separate health and administrative...

Seanad: Europol Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: A border.

Seanad: Europol Bill 2012: Committee Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: I thank the Minister and his officials for being present to conclude the legislation. Committee Stage was very brief in the Seanad, notwithstanding the efforts of Senator Ó Clochartaigh, but I believe the matter has been fully aired in the other House and here on Second Stage. I agree with what has been said by previous speakers. Europe is a political concept that drifts in and out of...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Dec 2012)

Paul Bradford: The next Senator has five minutes, but I will advise her after four minutes as I am trying to get as many speakers in as possible.