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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 82: In page 15, line 34, to delete “consider” and substitute “considers”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 83: In page 16, line 5, to delete “consider” and substitute “considers”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 84: In page 16, line 6, to delete “fostering” and substitute “promoting awareness and”.I am proposing this amendment to clarify that the commission has a statutory function in promoting awareness of this legislation. We have already discussed it. The amendment was requested by SIPOC to ensure that the role of the commission in promoting...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 85: In page 16, line 19, to delete “believe” and substitute “believes”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 86: In page 16, line 22, to delete “they” and substitute “it”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 87: In page 19, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“(c) state that the person is not obliged to pay the fixed payment,”.These are technical amendments. I am proposing these amendments to bring clarity to section 21 and to streamline the details to be included in the fixed payment notice.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 88: In page 19, line 11, to delete “, accompanied by the notice,”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 89: In page 19, line 13, after “initiated,” to insert “and”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 90: In page 19, to delete line 14.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The imposition of restrictions on post-term employment on relevant designated public officials must be proportionate and practical. We have taken very careful advice because people have constitutional rights. The categories included are Ministers, Ministers of State, special advisors, public servants of a prescribed description - in the first instance they will be Secretaries General,...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 94:In page 20, lines 15 and 16, to delete “in or for the purposes of which the person held office or was employed” and substitute “by which the person was employed or in which the person held any office or other position”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 95:In page 20, line 17, to delete “to the Commission for consent” and substitute “for consent made to the Commission in such manner and form as the Commission may require,”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 96:In page 20, line 25, to delete “30 days” and substitute “14 days”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 97:In page 21, line 13, to delete “30 days” and substitute “14 days”.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 98: In page 22, after line 17, to insert the following: “SCHEDULESection 7 BODIES THAT ARE NOT PUBLIC SERVICE BODIES1. Any body corporate established by Act of Parliament before 6 December 1922 that, upon its establishment, was of a commercial character. 2. Bord na gCon. 3. Bord na Móna Plc. 4. Córas Iompair Éireann. 5. Coillte Teoranta (being a...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: He was never in the IRA.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The former Minister, Deputy Shatter.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: Where were you?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: She could be answering to you.
- Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Nov 2014)
Brendan Howlin: On behalf of the Labour Party, I join the Taoiseach in expressing our sympathy to the family of the late Ted Nealon. Ted, as the Taoiseach indicated, was first elected as Fine Gael Deputy for Sligo-Leitrim in 1981. He was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture in the Fine Gael-Labour Government of 1981-82, and went on to serve as Minister of State with responsibility...