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Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: No and I did not know the law existed.

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: No.

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: Yes. In reply to Senator Power, she said that-----

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: She referred to motor tax and motor insurance. One can pay motor tax five weeks in advance.

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: There is nobody in this country waiting four months for an NCT test. The Minister said to telephone a centre and one will get a test.

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: Now.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: Senator Byrne stated he has tabled an amendment. We do not have a copy of it.

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: We do not interpret the law; we make the law.

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: I hear what Senators Byrne and O'Donovan are saying, but as I said on Second Stage, we are here as legislators and not interpreting law. If somebody challenges this in the High Court or Supreme Court, so be it. If he is successful, that will reflect what the court has decided. The Minister has to bring this legislation before the House. There are commencement orders from 2010 that were...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: I welcome the Minister to the House. He probably did not want to be here to deal with this issue as we thought it had been dealt with in the 2014 Act. As the Minister has pointed out, this stems from the Road Traffic Act 1961, which has been amended numerous times, most recently in 2014. Due to the nature of road traffic legislation, it is always a work in progress, with the two main...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2014: Order for Second Stage (16 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: I move: “That Second Stage be taken now.”

Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: I welcome the Minister and the opportunity to speak on sustainable agriculture and the dairy price outlook. If one looks up the word "sustainable" in the thesaurus it comes up as green, continual and viable. The most important word is "viable" as a word for sustainable. That is the theme on which I wish to speak because the viability of farming in what is a new outlook in terms of the...

Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: -----will be looked after. If the economy improves, I hope the Department will be able to get more money to improve the scheme and get more farmers into it because it will sustain agriculture. It is important that the Minister continues to get funding for GLAS, that the rural development programme will provide investment support through TAMs and that there is continued financial support for...

Seanad: Restructuring of Pensions at Aer Lingus: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: This is a very complicated and serious issue. I remind Senator O'Brien that the Irish airlines superannuation scheme is a private pension fund which finds itself in significant difficulty. As the Minister said, the scheme has a substantial deficit of between €700 million and €750 million and that had to be addressed. The view of the expert panel established to help resolve the...

Seanad: Restructuring of Pensions at Aer Lingus: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: How many people retired and were advised by their financial advisers to invest in Bank of Ireland and AIB shares? What pension do they have now?

Seanad: Restructuring of Pensions at Aer Lingus: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: That is a private pension fund. The Minister is dealing with a situation that has arisen whereby a privately owned pension fund, upon which a large number of people are reliant, has run up an incredibly large deficit.

Seanad: Restructuring of Pensions at Aer Lingus: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: He finds himself, therefore, trying to salvage funding to deliver the best possible chance for people to have a pension in the future. I commend him for that. If he had wavered and not signed the order, we would now be debating why he had not done so and why a fund on which so many people are reliant was facing an even higher level of risk than it is facing at present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forthcoming Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: Most issues have been dealt with but I wish to return to milk quotas. I raised in the Seanad today the fact that we are 7.1% over quota. In October 2013, we were only 1% over quota. We are facing a super-levy bill of €113 million. I welcome the announcement by the Minister that he may consider a phased payment. It was inevitable this year with milk quotas disappearing next year...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: That is not the Minister's fault.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Pat O'Neill: As a Kilkenny person, I extend my deepest sympathy to the Corrie family on the death of Mr. Jonathan Corrie. It is an awful tragedy. I look forward to the debate tomorrow that has been proposed by Senator Craughwell, and I compliment the Senator on that. Will the Leader contact the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and ask the Minister to write to the Commission? Ireland is...