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Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I will withdraw amendment No. 31 in favour of amendment No. 32.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I thank the Department for its co-operation on this Bill. I thank in particular the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, who listened to the concerns we raised on Committee Stage. I thank the Minister who has also shown the capacity and willingness to accept ideas and concerns from the Opposition. The inland fisheries sector, generally, is a significant resource which is not utilised or...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: Yesterday, I took the advice of the Ceann Comhairle and attempted to raise an issue involving the HSE during the Adjournment debate. The Ceann Comhairle kindly accepted the motion on the Adjournment, which relates to the latest child to go missing from HSE care, this time in Cork. She has been missing since 26 January and I raised the issue last night in order to establish some facts from a...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: We cannot get answers.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 2: In page 13, line 28, to delete "by order" and substitute "subsequent to approval by Dáil Éireann". It is unusual to have two different Ministers taking Committee and Report Stages of the same Bill, although I presume both Ministers have a good understanding of it. The Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, took Committee Stage and we had some very useful...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: My amendment is pretty self-explanatory and amendment No. 3 deals with the spirit of the amendment. I am happy to withdraw the amendment.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: My amendment No. 5 is in regard to the responsibilities of the new IFI in supporting angling promotion and marketing activities, which I believe the Minister recognises. It requires it to co-operate with relevant State agencies and, as I proposed, other sectoral interests. In other words, the private sector here is hugely important to the promotion, marketing and development of this...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: What the Minister is attempting to do in this amendment does not address the points Deputy McManus is making in her amendment No. 7 and that I am trying to make in my amendment No. 8. We propose that the Oireachtas joint committee will have a say on the make-up of the board of the IFI but that we will have no say in the make-up of the inland fisheries forum, which is where most of the...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 9: In page 15, line 35, after "relevant" to insert the following: "and make the results of all research publicly available". This amendment concerns research which is being done. It is an issue about which the Minister cares because he makes decisions, in this area at least, on the basis of the scientific information available to him on the management of fish stocks and...

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: For the Minister's sake, I hope it is not. I tabled amendment No. 9 and I will withdraw it.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I could have made life difficult if I accepted it quickly. I withdraw it on the basis of what the Minister has said.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 11: In page 17, to delete lines 12 to 27. I understand the Minister is trying to deal with an issue I raised on Committee Stage in amendment No. 11. On that basis, I will not prolong the discussion.

Inland Fisheries Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I was caught off guard on amendment No. 11, although I stand over what I said about the Minister partially addressing the issue. I am concerned that under this section the Minister has the power to change radically by ministerial order the way in which inland fisheries are managed. All we are doing in this Bill by way of setting up a new inland fisheries management structure and creating...

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: Can I raise an issue on the Order of Business?

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: There were 20,000 letters.

Child Care Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I thank the Minister of State for being here this evening but I would have liked if the Minister or Minister of State with responsibility for children had come to the House to take this Adjournment matter. I regard this issue as extremely important and worrying. We have unfortunately debated in this House in recent times a number of cases of abuse and inappropriate treatment of children in...

Child Care Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: With respect, the Minister of State should put the notes down and give me some assurance that the State will take this particular case seriously. I understand that he cannot give me a comprehensive response due to industrial action, which is a disgrace.

Child Care Services. (10 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: I thank the Minister of State.

Land and Land Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases)(Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: It is nice to have some comic relief in a serious debate. I support the Labour Party in what it is attempting to do this evening. In essence, the Bill proposes to allow the Government to make an order to allow for, in effect, an annulment of the upward-only rent review clause in existing rental contracts in extreme circumstances and in specific market sectors where the Government deems it...

Land and Land Conveyancing Law Reform (Review of Rent in Certain Cases)(Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (9 Mar 2010)

Simon Coveney: The US Congress proposed a 90% tax on such bonuses to, effectively, eliminate them. There are different ways of looking at issues. I am not saying that is the appropriate way, but we must find a way. We cannot allow businesses wither on the vine because of inappropriate rental valuations that apply to a boom time when we are in the depths of this recession. The final issue I would raise is...