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Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health if the budgets, staffing levels and bed numbers currently in place for St. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown and St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, will remain the same or see reductions following the proposed re-configuration of accident and emergency services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26375/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, the salary in the new contract for the CEO of Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company, due to be signed in March 2012, will be set at a maximum of €110,569 in line with the new salary range for newly appointed chief executive officers of commercial State sponsored bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26660/11]

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the IOU to the bondholder carry more weight than that to the policyholder?

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When the Minister is answering that, could he not tell us who the bondholder is? He must know the identity.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister ask Mr. Alan Dukes for the identity of the bondholder?

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the fund cover only the losses of the Quinn Insurance group in the UK or will it cover the future losses of Liberty Mutual Direct Insurance Company Limited and Anglo Irish Bank, who are taking over as part of the deal? As I understand it, the business will be broken up into two parts, one of which is the big loss making business primarily in the UK which is to be run off by the...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to make a few other points.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is in the speaking note?

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would prefer to make my points first because I am not sure how they relate to the different sections.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister said that the new better resourced regulatory regime in terms of the Central Bank should guard against this type of situation developing again and that there should be proper provisioning against claims by insurance companies. I am not that familiar with the insurance industry. Is it an offence for an insurance company not to make proper provision against claims or not to have...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister satisfied they are sufficient, given what has happened?

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister expect Mr. Quinn to be suitably prosecuted then?

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is about to answer Deputy Doherty's question. Although I asked the officials about the matter, I want to be clear. If the insurance industry is regulated to ensure companies have sufficient assets to meet claims and so on, how can the claim of the policyholder on the company's assets be trumped by the claim of the bondholder? I cannot figure it out. If the insurance company's...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not because of us.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have anyone in opposition in the Seanad.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Believe me, if we did-----

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the record, the Technical Group used all of its speaking slots.

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What date did it appear?

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is disgraceful that this important piece of legislation is being rammed through in two days. Frankly, it makes a joke of the Government's pre-election talk of transparent government, renewing democracy and all the other hyperbole we had prior to the election. The legislation has far-reaching consequences for probably hundreds of thousands of policyholders for many years to come. It will...

Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nationalised.