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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 157: In page 104, line 4, to delete "substitution" and substitute "insertion".

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 158: In page 104, line 4, to delete "for" and substitute "after".

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 159: In page 104, to delete lines 6 to 8 and substitute the following: ""(ca) the referral of a matter to an adjudication officer for decision under section 15M of the Act of 2002,".".

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I agree wholeheartedly with the Deputy that it is important that a regulatory body be adequately resourced to coincide with any necessary legislative provision that gives it additional powers. My Department and the CCPC recognise that significant adequate additional resources will be required to implement the new legislation. In the past two budgets alone, the CCPC has received an increase...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I genuinely believe that the best way to negotiate budgets is to look forward and not at historical performance. The CCPC can make a business case as to what is needed to run the service it provides adequately. We have demonstrated in the past two budgets that we recognise a resource increase is needed. In the past two budgets, an increase of 20% was given to the CCPC. Its current staff...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I fully appreciate where the Deputy is coming from and what she wants to achieve. I will give her a little context for where we are coming from. The CCPC is a statutory body and the legislation underpinning it gives it statutory functions that give effect to policy. It has a number of functions under section 10 of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014, which include the power to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I will point out the State is bound by EU law to fully resource competent authorities, including a competition authority. That safeguard is in place. If any future Government decided not to adequately resource the CCPC, it would be going against the EU. The provision the Deputy is proposing to delete is a standard enough provision for statutory bodies, such as the CCPC. The 2003...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: -----for the CCPC. As I outlined in my opening contribution, it is more to protect the independence of where it is coming from. I accept and share the Deputy's concerns regarding some future government because this Government has proved in the past number of years that we have been resourcing the CCPC and the CEA in recognition of their increased powers and additional responsibilities. If...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 165: In page 107, to delete lines 36 and 37 and substitute the following: “(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1): “(1) For the purpose of— (a) obtaining any information which may be required in relation to a matter under investigation under the Act of 2002 or Article 101 or 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 166: In page 109, to delete lines 14 to 18 and substitute the following: “(c) in subsection (3)— (i) by the substitution of “Subject to subsection (3A), if a judge” for “If a judge”, and (ii) by the substitution of “an offence under the Act of 2002, or an infringement, whether or not the infringement is criminal in...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 167: In page 109, to delete line 38 and substitute the following: “requirement. (4) A person who— (a) provides the Commission or delegate, as the case may be, with information that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is false or misleading in a material respect, or (b) fails, without reasonable cause, to provide information pursuant to a...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 168: In page 113, to delete lines 7 to 13 and substitute the following: “(k) in section 14— (i) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1): “(1) Evidence obtained as a result of surveillance carried out under an authorisation or under an approval granted in accordance with section 7 or 8— (a ) may be admitted...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I am.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I am moving amendment No. 168, which relates to surveillance. I was clarifying a part of the Bill that is not included but that we spoke to at an earlier point in the drafting.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: That is correct.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 170: In page 116, line 11, to delete “and”. All three amendments deal with the changes needed for authorised officers of ComReg. Amendment No. 171 expands the amendments already being made to section 39 of the Communications Regulation Act 2002 relating to the powers given to authorised officers of ComReg when it is acting as a competition authority....

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 172: In page 117, to delete line 3 and substitute the following: “requirement. “(4) A person who— (a) provides the Commission or officer, as the case may be, with information that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is false or misleading in a material respect, or (b) fails, without reasonable cause, to provide information...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 173: In page 117, to delete line 6 and substitute ““under section 39 other than subsection (3B) of that section.” for “under section 39”.”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 174: In page 117, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “Insertion of sections 40A and 40B in Communications Regulation Act 2002 39. The Communications Regulation Act 2002 is amended by the insertion of the following sections after section 40: “Search warrants in relation to certain competition law matters 40A. Subject to section 40B, if a...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 175: In page 117, after line 17, to insert the following: “PART 8 AMENDMENT OF NATIONAL STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF IRELAND ACT 1996Amendment of section 12 of National Standards Authority of Ireland Act 1996 40. Section 12 of the National Standards Authority of Ireland Act 1996 is amended— (a) in subsection (2), by the substitution of “this...