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Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: It is a pathetic objection.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Amend it then.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Through the Chair.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Through the Chair.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: There is the Chair, up there.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Of course, within three months.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Yes. May I respond?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: I am conscious of the time and I will not detain the House too long but I wish to respond briefly. This recommendation was never about and does not include within it anywhere an attack on reliefs. That is not in it. We could have a debate about the reliefs and their merits. However, the Members opposite fell into a trap which is not in the recommendation. It was never an attack on the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: The Senator is still falling into the trap.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: I love this because it simply makes my point.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Everything that has been said by the other side, especially by Senator Cassidy, fortifies my view about the necessity for such a procedure.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: For all his intelligence and expertise, I will not take it from Senator Cassidy that these things are good things. Even he must agree there must be limits. Senator Daly agrees. Perhaps I was a little harsh on Senator Daly on the technical issue of a one month period. I did not appreciate fully what he was saying.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: It ought to have been a three month period and I would be satisfied to concede an amendment if the Minister wished to bring it forward to the effect that it should be done in three months rather than one. I wish to make some other points briefly. I believe I am entitled to do so since I moved the recommendation. This goes to the heart of our politics and how we debate these things....

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: I move recommendation No. 2: In page 7, before section 1, to insert the following new section: "PART 1PUBLICATION OF CERTAIN BONUSES 1.—Each credit institution that is participating in the eligible liabilities guarantee scheme shall be required, within 30 days of the passing of this Act, to submit to Dáil Éireann details of the names of all of its officers, employees or contractors to...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: If the Minister might assist me, to what section of the Bill does this apply?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: I will come to that matter shortly. To remind the House, the recommendation calls for the making of a submission to Dáil Éireann within 30 days of the passing of the Bill; the same technical objection applies, although, to be fair, the Minister was not making too much of this in regard to the earlier recommendation. Nonetheless, given that there will be no Dáil in place in 30 days time,...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: The Minister did not say that when I asked him to address the matter.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: The purpose of my asking the Minister to address the recommendation was to see what his attitude towards it was. I note the amendment to the Bill he introduced in the Dáil which we can perhaps consider in due course. The recommendation is somewhat narrower, as the Minister will acknowledge.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: It has to do with the submission of details of bonuses paid. There has been a problem in that regard and the Minister has expressed his own frustration.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Alex White: Very good. His frustration is shared by the public, given the apparent inability, even of the Minister, to obtain details. However, we must accept what he tells us, as always. In regard to Bank of Ireland, for example, details of bonuses paid may have been withheld from him or at least not made available to him, as they should have been, in a timely manner. It is a little like our earlier...