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Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “7. The Minister shall require the Road Safety Authority to publish the breakdown of penalty points by licence type to show separately drivers with full licences, learner permits, no licence, licences from outside the jurisdiction, non-appearance in Court and unmatched penalty points from previous...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister for his reply. The numbers he brought before the House the last day were most valuable to us, and these were the figures we included in this amendment. It is always important that we have the best possible data to inform policy. This is a major issue in which 290 people lost their lives during the year. Having the kind of information the Minister is considering would...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 3: In page 16, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:"14. (1) All mechanically propelled vehicles where the operator is- (a) the holder of a driving licence licensing the holder to drive a vehicle in the category C,C1, D, D1, EB, EC, EC1, and W while driving, attempting to drive or being in charge of such a vehicle, (b) the holder of a licence to drive any type...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I suppose I have a difference of emphasis in that I would not see it as a punitive measure but rather as a preventative one and that people should embrace the technology enthusiastically in that regard. I was trying to think of an analogy. Only when one first falls off a bike does one buy a bike with safety features. If this technology is available and it does not add to the cost of...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 4: In page 16, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: "Safety of Road Infrastructure 14. In accordance with Section 17 of the Roads Act, 1993 and the EU directive on road infrastructure safety management, the National Roads Authority shall issue guidelines on road safety matters. The Authority may issue a direction to a road authority, being a local authority,...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister for referring to the air accident investigation unit. As far as Irish airlines are concerned, they are as safe as possible. The recent air accident in Cork was actually down to defects in the Spanish aviation regulatory authority. On the Order of Business recently, I called on the Minister to take this matter up with the Spanish authorities. If one is to have a free...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 5: In page 19, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “23. Section 10 of the Act of 2010 is amended by substituting for subsection (7)(a) the following:(7) (a) The Minister for Justice and Law Reform may by an agreement in writing entered into with any person, upon such terms and conditions as may be specified in the agreement, which shall include a...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister for his reply. I do not propose to press the amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: Shame.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I echo Senator Whelan's comments about the need for a debate on energy policy. The success of fracking, whether we like it or not, has changed energy prices and we need to review the policy. Will the Deputy Leader comment on the remarks of Mr. Barroso last weekend that an independent Scotland might not be a suitable member of the EU? It is entirely inappropriate that he should have...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: They do it themselves.

Seanad: Teaching Council of Ireland: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister to the House. What he has been telling us about is most important; the 87,000 registered people will have a major role to play in the future of this country. They always have. I do not want to be defensive, but some of the people who have made negative comments about Irish education were the very people who in 2008 were so incompetent in their own fields that...

Seanad: Teaching Council of Ireland: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: That is excellent news and I thank the Minister for that. James Hickman from Harvard has stated that investment in early education is the crucial determinate; if a child starts well, he or she will do well thereafter. Perhaps the traditional system, whereby the longer somebody stayed in the system, the more resources were given to the person, contradicted the opinion that investment should...

Seanad: Teaching Council of Ireland: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister. We should not insist on that degree of compliance. We must always be a society that is bubbling with ideas, as the Minister was in his time in Earlsfort Terrace. I assume that tradition will continue. What we have heard is interesting, exciting, developmental, and extremely valuable. I hope we will always be open to keeping discussions like this going. Universities...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by the Pope: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I second the motion and commend Senator Norris on all the work he has put into this. I welcome the decision of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges to also endorse what is proposed here. As Senator Norris was concluding his remarks about the possibility of a visit to Northern Ireland, I was reminded that just very recently, at St. Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, the papal nuncio and my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister. The Seanad had the benefit of his wisdom recently and was very supportive of him. It appears that the way public life is reported in Ireland is that an argument on how universal health insurance might or might not be financed is based not on the issues, but on whether Ministers A an B play golf on the same golf course. I welcome what I have read about this plan....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: Yes. Let us have tendering in this instance. It seems to be an obvious example of where one would do it. The Minister referred to pyrite, but according to Oireachtas briefing notes, householders in Canada with pyrite problems contacted their house insurance providers in the first instance. The insurance providers recovered moneys from the construction industry which, in turn, recovered...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the research broadcast this morning by Mr. Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk radio because it reflected the issues raised here on Tuesday afternoon about penalty points. We raised, with the Minister, the fact that there were some 318,000 penalty points in 2012 that were attached to people with no licence. Mr. Cuddihy has updated that figure to 445,000. It appears there is a problem in...