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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These are Deputy Pringle's amendments. It is about having a speedy timeline for getting the licence, and Deputy Pringle believes there are too many get-out clauses in the Minister's amendment. There are qualifications on his requirement to grant or refuse the licence within a particular timeline. His amendment is straightforward in that it states the timeline and that the licence will...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we allowed to respond?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This matter does not involve people, in a rather whimsical manner, seeking surveys. What we are seeking is that people should be allowed to petition for such surveys if they have concerns. Ultimately, the decision on whether a survey would be carried out would lie with the Minister. There should a procedure whereby people with concerns would have the opportunity to indicate that they want...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 60: In page 13, line 33, after “days” to insert “, if investigating alleged offences,”.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This section needs some additional elements because it deals with protection of the forests. The Minister should have the authority to carry out ecological surveys of forests to ensure the ecological integrity of forests with a particular focus on ancient woodlands and native species. There should be a provision to allow citizens who are concerned about the ecological integrity of forests...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we get a chance to speak on the section as well? I missed my first amendment.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can raise the issues at the end of the section. Is that not so?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can raise the issues at the end of the section. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I can speak at the end of the section.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of the amendments are mine and some are those of Deputy Pringle. Amendment No. 59 is Deputy Pringle's amendment. Should I move it now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions following from earlier comments. Is there a conflict between the legislation which informs how the ombudsman is to operate and a statutory instrument which disagrees? The ombudsman is governed by the statutory instrument in the publication of details of individual judgments. That situation is bizarre.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not fully following that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that. However, I find it strange and bizarre that the legislation can allow for the ombudsman to do one thing and then the regulations put in place - presumably to implement the legislation - preclude the ombudsman from doing something that the legislation allows it to do, namely, a quite important issue of being able to report on individual rulings made by it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That appears to me to be an anomaly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to people with mortgage arrears going through the MABS process. In almost every case of mortgage difficulty that I encounter, people tell me that they are making great efforts to contact financial institutions to engage with them but they receive no response or else merely a letter written by rote. I wonder about this. The banks have come to our meetings telling us that they are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry but this was well publicised.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Ombudsman receiving a lot of complaints about restructuring divisions and their relationship with small businesses? Is there an apparent problem here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one case and I will not mention names but it concerns a complaint about ATMs. A couple had €800 taken out of their account. The bank suggested that they had taken it out themselves but they were adamant that they had not done so. They had been customers of the bank for many years, both were working and were in a different part of the country at the time that the money was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Bi-annual Review 2013: Financial Services Ombudsman (5 Mar 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To show gross negligence?