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National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 27:In page 15, to delete lines 9 to 12.The purpose of this amendment essentially is to delete section 28(4), which provides that if the regulator, deeming that the details of the licence which are deemed by the regulator to be commercially sensitive should be published in the public interest, he or she shall give the licence holder notice of the intention to so do and...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 7:In page 7, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“(4) The Regulator will cease to exist at a date to be set by the Minister.”.This amendment is very straightforward and the Minister knows precisely what I am getting at. I raised the issue on Committee Stage, although I did not table an exact amendment on it then. I spoke about it, however, and...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: Nobody asked the Minister to do it, but he inserted in that document a provision that all new State bodies or agencies being established from November 2011 shall have a sunset clause. I pointed that out to the Minister, yet here he is setting up his first ever agency since becoming Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and lo and behold he has not included a sunset clause. I do not...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I understand the logic of that, which is why I specifically did not put a date in the amendment. I know the lottery licence is to run for a long period. Normally people would have put five or ten years, but I left it wide open. If that is the Minister's stated position, however, he should revise the document he issued in November 2011 in which he referred to sunset clauses. He said that...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 8:In page 7, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“8. The Minister shall reply to Parliamentary Questions relating to the regulation of the National Lottery.”.This amendment also arises from the debate on Committee Stage. I presume that, at the moment, the Minister is responsible for parliamentary questions concerning the current national...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister already mentioned the National Roads Authority. I do not think the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport can take a parliamentary question on the NRA because he will be told he has no function in the matter.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: Yes, but the Minister gets my point. I think it is a further weakening of democratic controls if the House cannot seek a response through the Chamber.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 9:In page 7, to delete lines 20 to 25.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 10:In page 7, to delete lines 26 to 32, and in page 8, to delete lines 1 to 11.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 11:In page 8, to delete lines 12 to 23.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 12:In page 8, to delete lines 24 to 27.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I asked why have this new regulator and in his opening remarks the Minister stated he felt it would be better if the next lottery licence were carried out by an independent regulator. If the Minister believes this he should have it for the current competition-----

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: Is it possible for the Minister to extend the licence for six or 12 months to allow this if he believes it is better that an independent regulator runs the lottery competition, as he believes should happen in 20 years time? We will agree to disagree. I do not see the urgency to pass legislation to establish the national lottery regulator to run a national lottery competition licence in 20...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I ask the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to clarify.

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: They did not have the six and nine marked; I saw that. There were extra-lucky winners and that is the luck of the draw. I was conscious of that when I was talking about the-----

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: The bonus was wrong as well. I am always minded of the lottery when before it used to spin the wheel, Mr. Ronan Collins or whoever used be on always had this independent auditor from KPMG standing by to ensure everything was okay. In my constituency, anybody who saw this senior accountant there ensuring everything was right when the person went to spin the wheel asked what use he would be,...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: Will the transfer of undertaking be binding on companies from outside the EU or would it only be binding on companies that have the same approach to employment and EU directives under EU law? Will the Minister include something on this topic in the licence agreement when it is put out to tender so that it is clear to those who are bidding for it that if they are awarded the licence, they...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 6:In page 7, to delete lines 12 to 19.There are quite a few amendments being taken together and they all relate to the regulator. This amendment proposes to delete lines 12 to 19 on page 7, which essentially allow for the regulator of the national lottery. We discussed this at length on Committee Stage and I found that discussion helpful in that I got some information...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 5:In page 7, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following:"7. The employment rights of employees of the National Lottery and the contractual rights of agents of the National Lottery shall be protected by this Act.". This would allow for the employment rights of employees of the national lottery and the contractual rights of agents of the national lottery to be...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I accept the Minister's commitment but I cannot accept that it is not going into the legislation. I will cut to the chase on this. The funding for the construction of the national children's hospital is not going to be required until 2017 or 2018. Neither the Minister nor I know whether we will be Members of this House, not to mention members of Government, at that stage. While the...