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Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Order for Second Stage (15 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister to the House and I welcome this legislation. We all must welcome anything that makes life easier for the citizen or for the public when accessing legislation. I congratulate and thank the people in the Departments who have gone through all 297 Acts that are obsolete. It was a very tedious job to go through all of those pieces of legislation to see that they are not...

Seanad: Statute Law Revision Bill 2016: Second Stage (15 Nov 2016)

Paddy Burke: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: I second the amendment to the Order of Business that has been proposed by Senator Colm Burke. While I appreciate that Senator Ned O'Sullivan is speaking from the heart, I remind him that the project to which he refers is a welcome development in Ballina, County Mayo. To be fair to the person to whom the Senator alluded, who is a former Member of this House and a former President-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: She was much more than a President or a Senator. She was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Many of the papers relate to that role rather than to her time as President. I ask the Minister, Deputy Ross, who is a former Member of this House, to come to the Seanad to discuss the state of our national roads. I read recently that, according to a report, our national roads are falling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2016 and Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: Will this cover vulture funds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2016 and Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: I would like to return to the issue of vulture funds or to what the Minister termed debt-investors. The introduction by the Minister of the 20% tax closed off the loophole in this area, and rightly so. However, we now find that debt investors-vulture funds are running amok in terms of the penal interest rates, charges and penalties they are applying to loans which they have acquired. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2016 and Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: That is not what I am told is happening on the ground.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2016 and Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: Thank you.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: I support Senators Mulherin and Kieran O'Donnell with regard to inviting the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, to the House to deal with a number of issues but in particular the increased volume of traffic on our roads in recent years and the pending report on traffic on our railways. We could have an interesting debate with the Minister on those issues. Recently, we...

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: There are more of them now.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I think everybody in this House welcomes 95% of this Bill but some people have problems with some small aspects of it. By and large, 95% of the people think this is a very good Bill that is very welcome and will do what it aims to do. Senator Norris posed a very good question relating to sports and advertising. I believe we should turn it back...

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: We are not. We are dealing with amendment No. 1.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: Amendment No. 1 deals with this.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: The Minister of State and the Department should have a look at that aspect of it.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: I cannot find section 17(3)(d). I can see section 17(3)(c) but I cannot see section 17(3)(d). Could the Minister of State point it out to us?

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: That is an amendment that will be put in it? I do not see it in the Bill.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: It is not in the Bill as initiated. We cannot see what section 17(3)(d) is in the Bill.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: The amendment says there is a subsection. The Minister of State is referring to it.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

Paddy Burke: Did it not happen when the Senator was getting his nails done?