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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Registration (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I have been informed by the Registrar of Companies that there has been a high volume of traffic on the CRO CORE IT system ahead of the original deadline of Friday 28th May, with some presenters experiencing difficulties in filing Annual Returns. I understand that in the period 24th – 27th May, presenters encountered slow response times when filing on the system at times during the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: Government approved the priority drafting of the Companies (Small Company Administrative Rescue Process and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021 on 11th May 2021. Drafting is currently underway with a view to enactment in advance of the summer recess. Officials from my Department continue to engage intensively with the Attorney General and Parliamentary Counsel to progress the Bill within this...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the capacity for online theory testing will expand (details supplied). [29881/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme will be extended (details supplied). [30222/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any refunds or waiver of fees available to third-level students given they have been at home studying remotely for most of the year. [30011/21]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: No, I am okay. I thank the committee for its co-operation to date. I appreciate its work on pre-legislative scrutiny on the scheme of the Bill. It proved beneficial. Four of the seven recommendations have been adopted and included in the Bill, so it was a worthwhile exercise. I thank the committee for its co-operation in that regard.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I thank the Deputy. I fully appreciate from where she is coming. I hope that the official explanation I will provide will relieve her anxiety or confirm there is no need for this amendment and that, for that reason, we are not proposing to accept it. The proposed amendments to section 17(1) and section 17(2) are unnecessary in my view. The amendment to section 17(2) is also drafted in...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: Hopefully I can provide such reassurance on that but I will ask if any other member wishes to contribute?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: The provisions on the service of a document are found in the statutes dealing with a wide range of different areas. Section 5 of the Bill is in accordance with the corresponding provisions in other enactments. Officials of my Department have examined the provisions on the service of documents in all of the Acts adopted over the past decade. None of the 20 or so Acts examined include the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I cannot disagree with the Deputy on that point. She is right as this does warrant broader discussion but outside the context of this Bill. To do that in isolation just in this Bill could have unforeseen consequences on other legislation. I appreciate the spirit in which the Deputy is offering to withdraw it and the point raised by the Deputy warrants further discussion, examination and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I genuinely accept where the Deputy is coming from with this amendment and I was of a similar view myself but I will give the Deputy the rationale behind why we cannot accept the amendment and we will see what the Deputy thinks of it. The first of the conditions for the application for the designation of a venue in section 7(1) states that the venue has the capacity to hold 1,000 persons or...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I think we are all in unison. We want to ensure that legitimate fans and patrons can get access to their particular choice of relaxation, whether that is sport, culture or music and can do so at fair value. We have done that with this Bill after consultation and pre-legislative scrutiny as well as following Private Members Bills proposed by this committee's Chairman, the former Deputy, Noel...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I will commit to asking my officials to review it in advance of Report Stage. I appreciate the Deputy's point of view. I had the same thinking but when we went through it and fleshed it out, I realised that we are have plenty of safeguards in place. We can certainly review it again.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: In all of the Deputy's amendments up to this point I could where she was coming from and I have taken them in the spirit in which they were tabled. Likewise, I take this amendment in the spirit in which it is proposed, but I disagree with it. The amendment proposes the deletion of section 9(4), which provides that the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment may prescribe a fee to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I do not believe it will act as a deterrent. Many of the sporting bodies and events promoters have called on Goverment to take action against ticket touting. There are measures that they could have taken in terms of personalised and paperless tickets, which would have made it far more difficult for ticket touts to resell tickets, but owing to the costs associated with bringing in those...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I appreciate that. As I said, the Bill provides that the Minister "may" prescribe a fee, not that he or she shall prescribe a fee. If a fee is prescribed, it be only in respect of administrative costs. That is our intention.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 6: In page 15, line 9, to delete "section 7(1)" and substitute "subsection (1) of that section". These are technical amendments which address incorrect cross-references in section 13. Section 13(5)(c) provides that a District Court judge may make an order confirming the revocation of a venue designation under section 8(1) on the grounds that the requirements of...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 7: In page15, line 27, to delete “section 9(1)” and substitute “subsection (1) of that section”.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 10: In page 20, line 20, to delete “section 18” and substitute “section 21”. This is another technical amendment, which addresses an incorrect cross-reference in section 23(2). Section 23 deals with the power of a member of An Garda Síochána to arrest a person without warrant in certain specified circumstances. Subsection (2)...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (2 Jun 2021)

Robert Troy: I thank the Chairman.