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- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: It is important to let the Minister of State back in directly to respond to the forensic comments made by Senator Higgins. I will come back in after that.
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: I thank the Minister of State. I must say it has been disappointing so far. This is still awkward, and it is becoming more awkward, because what we were due to discuss today was the Credit Union Restructuring Bill 2020, but that was dropped, and this Bill was put on the agenda. It gives more credence to the question I raised on the first day, last week and I raise again now. What is the...
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: The amendment is clearly relevant to lobbying, which may or may not have taken place. One issue that concerns me-----
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: I want to respond to what the Minister said, a Chathaoirligh. He said that he will have an answer on Report Stage on the lobbying issue. That is not good enough.
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: We can only speak once on Report Stage on any point.
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: I would like to ask the Minister of State for a commitment that he would have an answer for us at the next session of Committee Stage, unless he has one now. If he does, it would be great to hear it.
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: I know you do, a Chathaoirligh, but the Minister of State made a statement in the course of the debate that he would give us the information on whether a submission was refused to be released to the press in this regard. I need to get a commitment from him that we will not wait until Report Stage to get an answer to that point.
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: My concern is specific to this section. I am asking if this section was drawn up by the industry. I am asking who, in effect, wrote this Bill because a concern that has been raised with me is that it was effectively written by the industry and that a submission was refused release by the Department. If that is not the case, the Minister should tell us clearly that it is so, and then we can...
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: Section 5 is another example of genuine concern. There are a lot of amendments of other pieces of legislation in this section and, as the Minister of State has acknowledged, there has been no pre-legislative scrutiny. Going back to an Oireachtas committee in 2018 really does not cut it because we all know what has happened in recent weeks. I think it was Pat Rabbitte that famously said,...
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: I hear what the Minister of State said about the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. Will he outline the part played by the former Minister of State, former Senator D'Arcy, on the drawing up of the legislation?
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: Ah, come on. Are you serious?
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: The Minister of State is lucky that this is Seanad because there is probably nobody watching.
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: Section 6 makes reference to umbrella funds which are investment funds containing multiple sub-funds. The legal structure of an umbrella fund can be complex and generally consists of various feeder funds. A report was published this year in Luxembourg which found that umbrella fund structures can be used to distance a fraudulent master fund from end investors. Again, we come back to the...
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: I ask the Minister of State to outline the role the former Minister of State, Michael D'Arcy, played with regard to this section of the legislation.
- Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: It should be noted that the Minister of State has not answered my question.
- Seanad: Statutory Right to Sick Leave Pay: Motion (7 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: It is nice to see the Minister of State and he is very welcome. On behalf of Sinn Féin, I welcome the motion on sick pay, which will have our full support. I also welcome the speeches made by my colleagues in the Labour Party. Where do I begin with sick pay? I will begin with my own experience of working as a trade union official with red meat workers. What is not often said, and it...
- Seanad: Budget 2021: Statements (14 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister. When I was listening to the speech yesterday I was minded of the great philosopher and musician, Noddy Holder, who, in 1973 on "Top of the Pops", screamed through the microphone, "I said Mama but we're all crazy now". It is nice to see the Government move ever so slightly to the left. It is fair to start with some positives on the budget. As the House knows, Sinn...
- Seanad: Shannon Group: Motion (14 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: I move: “That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges that: - the Shannon Group supports over 46,000 jobs and contributes €1.1 billion in tax revenue to the exchequer; - the importance of the Shannon Group to the Midwest region to maintain jobs and to continue economic development of the region, as well as to the national economy; - the need to ensure the continued survival of...
- Seanad: Shannon Group: Motion (14 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: The Senator makes a fair point----
- Seanad: Shannon Group: Motion (14 Oct 2020)
Paul Gavan: The fact of the matter is that all of the airports outside of Dublin have great challenges right now. The current model, and this is something we have alluded to in the past, of competing airports is fundamentally flawed. In that respect I welcome the additional funding in yesterday’s budget both for Shannon and Cork airports which is a positive measure and needs to be acknowledged....