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Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: Yes, that is the way it reads.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: What about the ordinary garda?

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: The motivation behind this section of the Bill should be examined. For the information of Members on the other side of the House, last week I examined the Bill in detail, particularly with regard to sub-prime mortgages. While it is a technical Bill, those of us on this side of the House are well capable of examining such technical Bills. I question the inclusion of section 16 and the reason...

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: Exactly.

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: There are many anomalies. The key question is whether they will all be dealt with. We need to know the timeline for the Bill. On the representations made to the Department of Finance, while I accept the bone fides that it was done through Department of Finance officials rather than through the Minister, we need to know how long the Department of Finance had for drafting this and at what...

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (31 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: I concur with the sentiments of the previous speakers regarding this matter. At the weekend, through some excellent journalism, we became aware of further information pertaining to section 16 of this Bill. I agree with Senators Twomey and O'Malley that this is no way to conduct our business. Adding a large amount of so-called bits and pieces to Bills allows for circumstances such as this...

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Second Stage (25 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. This is the first time we have had an opportunity to speak on finance related issues. The Labour Party welcomes this Bill and will facilitate its passage through the House. At first glance, it seems to be very technical, but is necessary as it aims to transpose the markets and financial instruments directive into Irish law. I can see why there...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism should attend the House to discuss tourism policy. We underestimate the value of tourism as a driver of economic growth and I have a number of concerns which need to be addressed in this regard. In particular, a recent analysis has shown that in the first six months of this year the number of visitors from Britain dropped. This is an important...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: I wish to raise two issues. I call on the Minister for Transport to come into the House — I know we had a discussion on Shannon last week — to discuss overall access and aviation policy. We are heading into the most important time of the year for tourism because it is the planning season. We need to discuss how people will get into this country. The industry is concerned in regard to...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: Thank you. Just in case the Minister gets the idea to announce funding for this plan, as well as funding as a consequence of the loss of the Shannon-Heathrow route, one cannot spend the same money twice. He should lose any notions of doing so in the near future, especially since he has not been brought up to speed by his Department on decisions made about access. If there were ever an...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: Another matter is of concern to the social fabric of the country. We need the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism to come to the House to inform Members what he will do to prevent a strike in the GAA by the Gaelic Players Association. I am not sure whether any other Member of the House is a member of the GPA, but I am an associate member. Unfortunately my days of gracing the hurling...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: There must be some way to decide on the funds. I cannot see why the Irish Sports Council cannot do it. I accept there is an issue regarding professionalism, which nobody wants. There must be some way to deal with this. Surely it would just mean that on 1 May each year the names of 30 players would be handed into the Revenue and it would be dealt with in that way. It should be a simple...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: I would like to be associated with the comments on mental health of Senators White and Harris. It is a worthy debate, there is an element of stigma associated with this topic that must be addressed. As a result of the way in which the HSE is managing its business, there will be knock-on effects in other areas that the House should know about. Given the management style of the HSE, where it...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: With all due respect, I would like some latitude. As a result of this cap, the ambulance service will ferry people between hospitals instead of doing their normal work. Within Nenagh there are 75 beds so if a 76th person arrives, he must be ferried to Limerick. I got a phone call from an ambulance driver asking what will happen if the control room gets an emergency call while a person is...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: As a result of the significant investment in the ambulance service in coming years, 80 ambulances will be bought that will only have one stretcher, instead of two, and there will be capacity problems. I would like the Minister for Health and Children to explain how this will be dealt with given that ambulances will now be used for areas they were not used in the past.

Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: The Senator has 30 seconds.

Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: While I welcome the Minister of State to the House, it is a pity the Minister for Transport and the Marine, Deputy Noel Dempsey, was unable to remain. I speak on behalf of the Labour Party and thank my colleague, Senator Brendan Ryan, who is our spokesperson on this subject, for allowing me to do so. I speak as a representative of the mid-west who is highly exercised about events in Shannon...

Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)

Alan Kelly: I am concluding. These slot conferences are important because they will decide the future of where Aer Lingus can work from. Wait until we see the decisions that come out of those conferences. We in the mid-west will continue to fight this decision. The people of the mid-west are not whingers or exaggerators, and it is to their great credit that they have fought this decision. I will...