Results 28,101-28,120 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I agree that the words will stand, but I wish to add a new subsection in addition. May amendment No. 3 simply be put?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I do not propose that any word be changed. I propose that an additionalââ
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: What we debated and what the House divided on was the amendment in Deputy Hogan's name, which was to alter the wording of subsection 15B. I now propose simply to add a new subsection.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I would not have agreed to the grouping of amendments had I known that. Predatory pricing is the meat of the issue, and I simply wantedââ
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I have the Ceann Comhairle's letter to the effect that this amendment is out of order. This matter was discussed on Committee Stage by leave of the Chair and the Minister responded to it. Amendment No. 10 is an amendment to the parent Act, namely, the Competition Act 2002. I presume that it runs foul of the Long Title ruling. Is that where the difficulty arises?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: As the Ceann Comhairle is aware, this Bill is the Competition (Amendment) Bill and its purpose is to amend the primary Act, namely, the Competition Act 2002. The amendment's purpose is also to amend the primary Act. This is an important issue on which the Minister commented on Committee Stage. While I do not know whether he would allow an adjustment to the Long Title to encompass this...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 7, to delete lines 3 and 4. As the Ceann Comhairle noted, amendment No. 12 is related. This is simply a technical amendment. It seems to me on simple reading that subsection 5(2) states that insofar as it is unrepealed, the Restrictive Practices Act 1972 is repealed. The Bill's Schedule includes all the enactments which are to be repealed and it seems to me...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: These must be abnormal circumstances.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: I still do not understand the logic, inasmuch as the Minister may bring in any section of the Bill at his pleasure. Someone wishing to establish what provisions have been repealed by it will examine the Schedule. However, the repeal of the Restrictive Practices Act will not be noted in the Schedule. This seems to be both inelegant and confusing for potential readers of the Bill and contrary...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: This Bill is based on populism. There was an outcry about stealth taxes and rising prices in this country last year which, I suppose, was captured most definitively by the work of Mr. Hobbs on television. The Minister's response was not to look at genuine cartels, at what was happening among some of the professions or to take on real vested interest, but by way of populism to make an issue of...
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The last politician to try to claim such credit for a sporting victory was Charlie Haughey in Paris.
- Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (1 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the information available to his Department in regard to the number of management or senior staff in Bord na gCon who have had their positions terminated in the course of the past five years and in respect of whom financial settlements were made; the amount paid in respect of such settlements; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: As Deputy Hogan rightly stated, as far as most Members are concerned, this is the most important focus of the Bill. While this is not a lengthy Bill as far as the number of sections are concerned, it will have a major impact on the manner in which the operation of the grocery trade will be re-regulated or deregulated. There are genuine concerns among the existing players that this will have...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Sharing the blame.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: Speak in favour and vote against.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: That is competition, which is allowed.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: He did not.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is right.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Report Stage. (1 Mar 2006)
Brendan Howlin: That is like saying one should cancel the ambulance service because people die in ambulances.