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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 14: In page 10, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(2) Confirmation that a notice or other document served on or given to a person under subsection (1) must be received from the person to whom the notice or other document is being served.” There are already existing provisions which ensure that documents served on a person are...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Do provisions already exist to ensure that the documents served are actually received?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: On the basis of that clarification I am content to withdraw that amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I will speak to amendments Nos. 22, 30, 34 and 35, if that is okay. I do not know if they are all grouped but there is no sense in repeating myself when the next group comes up. This Bill is very technical, but it is also fairly political in nature in the context of the ever-changing geopolitical situation, which the Minister of State just outlined, and the need to ensure the safety and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I dearly wish the Government would change its housing policy. I genuinely feel, given the situation we are in, that housing should form part of this. I accept what the Minister of State is saying about potentially having to screen absolutely everything, everything having to be notified and the impact that might have. Does he take my point about it being an important area? We know foreign...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: They are not within the Bill we are discussing.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand. I am going to push this amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 22: In page 11, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(d) the transaction relates, directly or indirectly, to land and real estate for, or which could be used for, housing or accommodation;”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I agree to it. However, it is persuading the other members who have a problem with what is proposed. I woke up persuaded.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: On amendment No. 26, the requirement to notify the Minister of transactions is provided for under section 10(1)(b)(xi). It will ensure that parties to a notifiable transaction notify the Minister of that transaction and include details of any sanctions or restrictive financial measures imposed on the party by the European Union. I am seeking to ensure that the legislation is even more...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: No. That was not my intention either.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: That is very welcome. On that basis, I will withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 26: In page 12, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(xii) details of any sanctions imposed on the parties, or the state or territory under whose laws the parties are constituted, registered, or otherwise organised, by the United Nations; (xiii) details of any sanctions imposed on the parties, or the state or territory under whose laws the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 30: In page 14, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(III) control, directly or indirectly, of land and real estate for, or which could be used for, housing or accommodation,”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 34: In page 15, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “(ii) undertake actions that are disruptive or destructive to the provision of housing or accommodation, especially social and affordable housing, in the State,”. On the basis of the clarification provided by the Minister of State, I am happy to withdraw the amendments and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 35: In page 15, line 19, after “technologies” to insert “, land and real estate for, or which could be used for, housing or accommodation,”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 56: In page 21, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “(d) the Minister is satisfied there are no conflict(s) of interest." What is seldom is wonderful. Amendment No. 56 is not out of order. We have seen with high level bodies such as An Bord Pleanála that conflicts of interest can cause people to bend the rules, potentially break the law...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I am happy to do that. I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 67: In page 34, line 17, to delete “appoint” and substitute “nominate”. Committee members will be delighted to hear that I will not be speaking about each amendment individually. We will get out of here before lunchtime. These amendments are collective and interlinked. They relate to the advisory panel that will advise the Minister on...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Jan 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: I take the point that the Minister of State made. I do not dispute in any way, shape, make or form the talent that exists within the Civil Service. It is important that such talent gets on to the advisory panel. It was not proposed that TLAC would make the appointments but that it would be involved and have oversight. I appreciate that TLAC is constrained by its make up in terms of an...