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Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I do not think I should have to fight for that right. I think I have proved to the Leas-Chathaoirleach that I am not engaged in filibustering. I am making a serious point.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I have great faith that the Minister of State will go away and think about this.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I have brought up something of substance. My recommendation has been ruled out of order on a technicality and as a result, I was advised by the Cathaoirleach and the Leas-Chathaoirleach that I was within my rights to speak to the section. What I am saying is that section 4 should include a recommendation of the kind I am making, which proposes the insertion of a new section 5 that would...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I will just finish the point if I may - not in an overly leisurely way but I think I am entitled to that. The Minister of State seems to be saying that even if my recommendation had not been ruled out of order, there is no need to engage with it because the scope of it is somehow different to other matters treated within section 4 of the legislation. That is certainly a very novel approach...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: You have not done me any favours, a Leas-Chathaoirligh-----

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: No. I will take a little more than two sentences but nothing excessive, I promise you, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. First, I am going to do something that is relatively unusual in this House. I will apologise and say I was wrong on one point. I acknowledge that the Minister of State is correct because I now understand what he was saying about the purpose of the section. What I was clearly...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: It is a point that needs to stand in the House.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: Thank you, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. You say such kind things to me-----

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: -----even as you take the legs from under me. May I just address the substance then?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: No, not the substance of my amendment but the substance of the Minister of State's objections. He said two things. First, he took issue with me for referring to a particularly high-earning individual-----

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: Please. This is really important.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: We cannot and we will not, and I shall not and I did not. That is my point.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: No. I was accused of nothing bad by the Minister of State.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: If the Minister of State came close to accusing me of something bad, it was of being somewhat irresponsible in referring to an incident which, were it to be delved into, might disclose the identity of a particular person. My response to that is important, a Leas-Chathaoirligh, and I ask you to let me make it. I will make it very clearly. If you were to ask me off the top of my head who...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: Here is the point, though. Our job here is to shape policy and to make legislation in pursuit of that policy. If there is a relevant case that illustrates why change of legislation is extremely important, it simply cannot be the case, under any reasonable interpretation of the role of a legislator, that I may not instance a particular situation which highlights the urgency of change. That...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: No, this is really important, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I absolutely insist on it, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. It cannot be the case that a Member of the Oireachtas-----

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I shall not do so, but I insist-----

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I think you are getting bad advice, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. It cannot be the case that a Member of the Oireachtas is constrained from illustrating the purpose-----

Seanad: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (11 Dec 2020)

Rónán Mullen: I ask you to think very carefully, a Leas-Chathaoirligh, and I ask the Minister of State to think very carefully-----