Results 27,721-27,740 of 35,894 for speaker:Pearse Doherty
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: No. I asked first about the designated bodies stipulated here going from (a) to (f) and any other State bodies. As the Chairman indicated, Irish Water legislation had a stipulation regarding a resolution of the Oireachtas. The Oireachtas is about to pass a resolution that will allow for a Minister to "direct" - we will come back to that word momentarily - an agency to sell or wind down any...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Irish Water is one example but we should move on from that. We could argue until the cows come home about it.With any of the other designated bodies, including the ESB, Bord Gáis, Bord na Móna, Coillte, EirGrid and any other State body specified in any order under subsection (3). The agency, which is the NTMA rather than NewERA, shall: if a Minister of the Government who is a...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Of course it does, and that is the problem. I am glad we are starting to acknowledge issues. I am not saying the agency - which is not NewERA - can sell all of this. Of course it cannot, and we are not making that argument. That is not what the amendment concerns. It is concerned with the fact that a Minister can direct the agency to privatise or sell its shares in one of these...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I am opposed to the section because it concerns the establishment of NewERA, which I believe is a Trojan horse for the privatisation of what we might call the family silverware. It is not appropriate this would happen and on that basis I am opposed to all of the sections relating to this. I believe the intention of the Government in regard to State organisations is to bring about their...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I move amendment No. 14: In page 26, to delete lines 3 and 4.This relates to section 19, which deals with financial and commercial advisory functions relating to designated bodies. Amendment No. 14 proposes to delete the lines relating to where the agency will make any proposals on the acquisition or disposal of any interests in a designated body. As I mentioned earlier, this obviously...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State go back over the part dealing with amendments Nos. 16 and 18, where the approval of the House of the Oireachtas is required in the first instance anyway?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: No, just the relevant part.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I am interested to hear the reason the Minister of State believes that somebody who contravenes the legislation is not automatically dismissed as a member of the agency.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I will just tease that out, as the Minister of State has said that previously. I do not know how many people have gone to prison as a result of breach of the Ethics in Public Office Act or how many have been fined hundreds of thousands of euro. I know people who have been reported by political parties and found to be in breach of the ethics register but there has been sanction whatsoever....
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Because the section is flawed, I am pushing the amendment.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I wish to speak to the amendment. Is it the case that every time one of the State agencies changes its name the legislation will have to be amended?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: The answer is "No".
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: If a State agency changes its name again, is there a need to amend the legislation again?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I was interested to see who changed the name and if the legislation has to be amended each time there is a change of name.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Is it Irish or English?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Is that-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Was the change of name made by statutory instrument or legislation?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: I do not like that idea.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: We have had a debate on the role of Gaelic in society but now we are getting rid of Irish. Irish Water is listed instead of Uisce Éireann, not that I agree with either.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2014)
Pearse Doherty: Now we are changing Bord Gáis Éireann for a Latin word.