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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (18 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: The Flood Risk Management Plans which will be produced under the Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme, will include an integrated and prioritised set of measures to address flood risk within the area covered by the Plan. The Plan will also provide preliminary costings for the proposed measures. Until the Plans are finalised, it is not possible therefore to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (18 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: In June of this year the Office of Public Works (OPW) approved two applications submitted by Mayo County Council under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. Approved funding was €30,600 for works at Ballisnahyny/Glasvally, Ballinrobe and €14,850 for a project at Frenchbrook, Kilmaine. Details of the projects and works involved are available on the OPW...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (18 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: The current position with regard to the Bandon and Skibbereen Flood Relief Schemes is that they are both at the stage of procurement of civil works contractors. In both cases, contractors will be appointed after a two stage process, with both processes currently at the pre-qualification stage to produce a shortlist of contractors to be invited to tender. The second stage of the process for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (18 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: The Clonakilty Agricultural College locally known as Darrara College is run and maintained by Teagasc. A Department of Agriculture office in Clonakilty has been vacated in 2014. The property is secured and maintained to an acceptable standard by the Office of Public Works and this will continue pending a decision on its future use.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Drainage Schemes Status (18 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: The Clare River (Claregalway) Drainage Scheme was submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) for Ministerial Confirmation i.e. statutory approval on 2nd November 2013. In accordance with normal procedure, the scheme documentation submitted to DPER included an Environmental Impact Statement which is a consultants report of the environmental impacts of the works and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover (13 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: In March 2014, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Insurance Ireland, the representative body for the insurance industry in Ireland, and the Office of Public Works (OPW). This Memorandum sets out principles of how the two organisations will work together to ensure that appropriate and relevant information on completed OPW flood defence schemes is provided to insurers to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure (13 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: Expenditure by the Office of Public Works in the period January 2008 - October 2014 on flood relief Capital Works schemes, amounts to approximately €216 million, and is shown by county in the following table. This expenditure covers major Flood Relief Schemes and also the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme which commenced in 2009 under which Local Authorities...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 50: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Grounds for involuntary strike off 126.The grounds referred to in section 125(1)(b) are:(a) the Bank has reasonable cause to believe that the ICAV no longer complies with section 13; (b) the ICAV, not being authorised under the UCITS Regulations, has not applied for authorisation under section 18by...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 51: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Bank’s notice to ICAV of intention to strike it off register 127.(1) The Bank may give notice in accordance with section 128of the Bank’s intention to strike an ICAV off the register of ICAVs on a ground set out in any of paragraphs (a)to (e)of section 126.(2) The Bank shall send the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 52: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Contents of Bank’s notice to ICAV 128.(1) The Bank’s notice under section 127shall —(a) state that the issue of the notice is the first step in a process that may lead to the ICAV being struck off the register of ICAVs, (b) state the ground or grounds for striking off being...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 53: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Meaning of remedial step 129.For the purposes of sections 128, 130 and 133, the remedial step is whichever of the following applies:(a) in the case of the ground for striking off set out in section 126(a), having brought itself into compliance with section 13; (b) in the case of the ground for...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 54: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Public notice of intention to strike company off register 130.(1) If the Bank has given a notice under section 127and the remedial step has not been taken on or before the date specified in that notice for the purposes of section 128(1)(e), the Bank may, by publishing a notice in the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 55: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Conditions for voluntary strike off 131.(1) An ICAV may apply to the Bank to be struck off the register of ICAVs if the following conditions are satisfied:(a) the circumstances relating to the ICAV are such as to give the Bank reasonable cause to believe that it has never carried on business or has...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 56: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Public notice in case of voluntary strike off 132.(1) As soon as practicable after the receipt of an application by an ICAV to be struck off that satisfies the conditions set out in section 131* the Bank shall, by publishing a notice in the Iris Oifigiúil that complies with subsection (2), give...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 57: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Striking off (involuntary and voluntary cases) and dissolution 133.(1) If the Bank has given a notice under section 130and the remedial step has not been taken on or before the date specified in that notice for the purposes of subsection (2)(c)of that section, the Bank may strike the ICAV off the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 58: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Effect of removal and dissolution 134.(1) The liability, if any, of an officer or member of an ICAV that has been dissolved under section 133(4)shall continue and may be enforced as if the ICAV had not been dissolved.(2) Nothing in this section or in section 133*shall affect the power of the High...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 59: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Power of Bank to obtain information 135.(1) Where an ICAV has been struck off the register of ICAVs under section 133on any of the grounds set out in section 126(a)or (b), the Bank may, by notice to the directors of the ICAV, require those persons to produce to the Bank a statement of affairs of the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 60: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “Chapter 2 Restoration of ICAV to registerApplication of Chapter 136.This Chapter applies to an ICAV that has been struck off the register of ICAVs under Chapter 1.”.This relates to Chapter 2 of this new section and as I have noted deals with restoration in regard to "strike off". The...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: I want to check I have got the question right. There must be a minimum of two directors of an ICAV.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Bill 2014: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2014)

Simon Harris: There must be a secretary in addition to the directors.