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Seanad: Appropriations Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Nov 2024)

Aidan Davitt: Now.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I will briefly raise a matter we have discussed recently, one that is a significant topic for many Senators. I welcome Councillor Charlie Farrelly and his good wife to the Chamber. It is lovely to see them. I have been discussing councillors’ pensions since before the Moorhead report, which recommended that a commission be set up in May 2024 after the local elections. Since then, I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2024)

Aidan Davitt: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2024)

Aidan Davitt: Those of us who are returned to the next Seanad – please God, I will be one of them – might be able to address this issue.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Oct 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I want to raise councillors' pensions. I know we discussed this recently. I refer to the Moorhead report and its full implementation. The report contained the recommendation that councillors be given grade 4 civil servant status and the pay and all other associated benefits linked to that grade. That is very welcome, progressive and was hard fought for at the time. One part of that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Aidan Davitt: We have discussed the issue of councillors’ pensions in the past. As we are all aware, councillors are paid weekly. They pay class S PRSI, which is 4% of their remuneration.It is totally illegal. They get no pension on retirement or when they cease office although they do get a modest lump sum. It is no more than anyone in the public or Civil Service who has put in the years, such...

Seanad: Budget 2025 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (1 Oct 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I am delighted to welcome the Minister of State on this busy day.It is a good news day for the Government today. I am sure it is good to be here with all the good news that is coming from the Department at present. As Senator Craughwell has mentioned, it will be a search and rescue mission for a lot of the Opposition after such a considered budget. Given that this debate focuses on the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I also listened intently yesterday evening and again today to Senator McDowell. The point he makes, which was verified and corroborated by Senator Burke, is that the retrospective part of the measure is where the complications seem to lie. If somebody knowingly does something going forward, that is a different kettle of fish. In cases where people have done something previously and got an...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I also welcome our newest Seandadóir, Nikki Bradley, to the House and congratulate her on her appointment. We wish her well. This is a very collegial House and we all work in harmony together, so I am sure she will fit in and get the run of it quite quickly. Today, I would like to raise the issue of the moratorium on data centres. This is a very Irish solution to an Irish problem....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I welcome everybody to the meeting. It has been informative. I would be relatively aware of the Bill that has been brought forward by IPAV. I am relatively aware of the situation in which Mr. Garrett and Ms McKiernan are. I read a little ditty in yesterday's Irish Independent that the Law Society of Ireland, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, RICS, and whoever else seemed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I know that. I met Deputy MacSharry about the Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I could well believe that. I deal with these issues every day of the week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: If something is an issue, it is an issue regardless of whether this Bill comes into force. Mr. Garrett is throwing out red herrings, from what I can see. I am not trying to be combative but he seems to be looking for other problems in an effort to muddy the waters relating to the Bill. I do not get it. The issue he referred to is there and will continue to be there until is fixed. If he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: Mr. Garrett is pointing to an existing problem and trying to tie it to this Bill. The problem he spoke about is there and will still be there even if the Bill is enacted. The same applies to three or four other problems he mentioned. Whatever this Bill does, it will not make the job of solicitors any longer or more intense, apart from having to do the work upfront. If there are provisions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: That has happened with BidX1 in several instances. Mr. Garrett is throwing out another red herring.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: It is already happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I thank Ms McKiernan for answering a question that I asked. People can charge a lot of money and there is a probate so you get paid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: The auctioneer will only give the name of the solicitor after the property is sold. What happens after the property is sold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: Who just happen to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Aidan Davitt: I have listened keenly to Mr. Garrett and Ms McKiernan but I am curious if the process as to how we have come to this point has been a problem. As the witnesses are agreeing with a lot of the things the IPAV has highlighted and with what it wants to achieve, I am curious as to whether they talked to each other beforehand. Is it the process through which we got here that the Law Society is...