Results 27,741-27,760 of 34,777 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: I am happy to hear that. Therefore, if somebody in the Financial Regulator's office decides to make a protected disclosure which might affect our international relations with, say, Germany, they must make that disclosure to the person nominated by the Taoiseach to receive these disclosures.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: If the word gets out - although I am not saying the person would do that - but if it emerges in due course-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: Yes. This means action cannot be taken against that person in their employment as long as they went through this special channel, as we may call it.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: I will withdraw the amendment.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: Will the Minister withdraw the amendment and come back with the right one?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: We will sort it out on Report Stage. There are a couple of good amendments there.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: I cannot agree to that.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: So do I.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: There is nothing ambivalent.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: So we will amend the amendment on Report Stage rather than coming in with a clean amendment?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: We will fight the Minister on Report Stage if we are not happy.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 17: In page 17, to delete lines 29 to 34.Section 18 applies to a disclosure of information if it might reasonably be expected to affect adversely the security, defence international relations and intelligence of the State. These disclosures are not protected. I am not arguing the point if it adversely affects the security or defence of the State. However, in regard to...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: I only have a copy of the relevant sections here.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: I am pleased the Minister has agreed to look at the wording of the provision. Even if he made an exception and it came with one definitive prescribed body, it would be in the country's interests.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: So be it.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: I think it would make a mark. I am not going back over the history, but I know the Minister said there was a concern about drafting amendments based on the latest media story. My amendments have been there for about two months. They were tabled immediately after Second Stage, long before the recent episodes. They have been there for so long that I had to double-check whether I had even...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: I might give the Minister a pass on this one because he is not the Minister for Justice and Equality. We are amending the Garda Síochána Act and it is only right that Parliament have in front of it officials who can answer everything relevant. I do not know whether officials from the Department of Justice and Equality are here. I accept the principle of the Minister's response...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: I am happy with that. The Minister can see that I was very keen that there be some amendment on this issue. My questions are technical in nature and relate to the amendment rather than the broad sweep of the legislation. The Minister is amending section 91 of the Garda Síochána Act. What does this section talk about? I know the Minister might not have the answer here, but if we...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: We are not amending section 91 but we are referring to it. Is that what the Minister is saying?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)
Seán Fleming: It is important that we on this side of the House understand what that means if we are being asked to pass the legislation. We are referring to section 91 in this amendment but we are not amending the section. It is important that we know what the amendment refers to. I will proceed with section 91. It states that if a complaint concerns the death of or serious harm to a person as a...