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Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, line 35, to delete "(cc)" and substitute "(d)". This is a drafting amendment. If the existing paragraph is to be deleted, there is no reason the new paragraph should not be labelled "(d)", rather than the unwieldy "(cc)". I ask the Minister of State to accept the amendment.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: I am not prepared to press the amendment at this point but will reserve my position and may resubmit the amendment on Report Stage.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 7, paragraph (b), line 38, after "(6)", to insert the following: "and in lieu thereof by the insertion after subsection (4) of the following: "(5) Where having regard to the particular economic circumstances affecting any particular category of workers, the Government is of opinion that it is expedient that the procedures under the Industrial Relations Acts...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: The amendment seeks to step back and remove any constitutional difficulty. Primary legislation can be the subject of a very lengthy process and there can be considerable and unnecessary delays before a defined matter may be included within the scope of the legislation. However, I take the Minister of State's point. I do not propose to press the amendment but may consider resubmitting it on...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: If the casting vote of the chairperson is removed I believe this could very well result in the deadlock to which the Minister of State refers. I would not have concerns about the chairperson siding one way or another. Before I entered full-time politics I had dealings on the opposite side to the unions and also had many dealings with the Labour Relations Commission and the Rights...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: On a point of clarification, is it proposed to complete the Bill tonight? I assumed that with regard to some of my amendments -----

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: I have great difficulty with this procedure although I accept the Clerk's advice. The communication about today was that the House would deal with Committee Stage. Notwithstanding any decision this morning, there has been no communication clarifying a change in the schedule for today, as far as I am aware, and I have been in constant contact with my office throughout the day. I have...

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: I withdrew some of my amendments on Committee Stage on the basis there would be an opportunity to put them forward on Report Stage. If it was known in the House that Report Stage was to be taken today, that should have been brought to my attention. Perhaps the blame lies with me but I do not see it that way.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: Bills that commence life in this House typically come back but this is not the point. Report Stage is another stage. There is no need to take all Stages now. It is open to the Government-----

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: On the question as to when the House will take Report Stage, it is open to the Government side to say next week.

Seanad: Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (3 Nov 2009)

Brendan Ryan: But not by agreement. There was no agreement by the House.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Oct 2009)

Brendan Ryan: I welcome my constituency colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Sargent, to the House. On the previous occasion, my colleague, Senator Hannigan, broadly welcomed the Bill on behalf of the Labour Party, as do I. We intend to table some amendments on Committee Stage, however, to improve the legislation. I wish to make a few brief points. According to the explanatory memorandum, section 20...

Seanad: Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (15 Oct 2009)

Brendan Ryan: I second the amendment. My party supports both amendments.

Seanad: Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (15 Oct 2009)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 8: In page 17, lines 12 and 13, to delete "or by a member of the Garda Síochána". It seems the Minister proposes to accept the amendment. I welcome his decision and I have no comment to make beyond the points I made the last day.

Seanad: Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (15 Oct 2009)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 1: In page 8, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: "(a) shall have regard to the desirability of ensuring that operators of public bus services are not treated less favourably than operators of private bus services,". I welcome the Minister. We missed him the previous day because the Minister of State did not give us any leeway on our amendments. We hope...

Seanad: Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (15 Oct 2009)

Brendan Ryan: The motivation behind the amendment is to ensure we have a level playing field. The Minister indicated this is already the case. Perhaps the amendment is a statement of the obvious and is not, therefore, necessary. It is motivated by a fear that in the push to open the market to competition, the authority may favour private operators to demonstrate an accelerating pace of deregulation in...

Seanad: Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (15 Oct 2009)

Brendan Ryan: We will not be supporting this amendment. Section 10(1)(a) is a very important element of the Bill and whilst we might very well support the Bill, if it were to be deleted we might find we could not support it. Section 10(1)(a) states "having regard to the needs of consumers and any existing public bus passenger services on or in the vicinity of the route". We are not looking for a...

Seanad: Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (15 Oct 2009)

Brendan Ryan: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, between lines 41 and 42, to insert the following: "(i) the protection of the integrity of the national urban and local bus network,". This amendment seeks to take account of the protection of the integrity of the national urban and local bus network. The motivation for tabling it is to prevent cherry-picking of profitable routes and leaving all the...

Seanad: Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (15 Oct 2009)

Brendan Ryan: Presumably the Senator does not have a difficulty with the notion of sustainability.

Seanad: Public Transport Regulation Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (15 Oct 2009)

Brendan Ryan: On amendment No. 3, the Minister's assumption of our intent in the case of the network is correct. I do not wish to say anything further on that one. On amendment No. 4, the Minister stated it would not be useful to delete the word "competitive", but the amendment does not seek to delete the word "competitive". The word "competitive" would remain. In addition, the Minister did not really...