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Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: Last April the Minister announced a cap of €500,000 on the pay of chief executives but not on the pay of senior executives in banks. It is interesting no such general limit applies to them. The cap has been disregarded in this instance, which highlights why the Minister is bottom of the list in a Financial Times survey published today of finance Ministers in the European Union. One of...

Seanad: Courts and Court Officers Bill 2009: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: Specifying in detail the authority of the holding area officer and the garda in charge is most important; therefore, I understand the Minister's motivation behind these amendments, with which I have no difficulty in principle. The issues referred to by Senator Bacik are dealt with in her amendment. These amendments do not alter in any way the responsibilities of the Garda Síochána or a...

Seanad: Courts and Court Officers Bill 2009: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: As I have the same question, I will await the Minister of State's response.

Seanad: Courts and Court Officers Bill 2009: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: In light of the Minister of State's explanation and reading section 7 in conjunction with section 6(2), it appears the person will be a person who is lawfully in the custody of the Garda Síochána. I am satisfied, therefore, that the intention behind the legislation is clear.

Seanad: Courts and Court Officers Bill 2009: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: I support the amendment. If one reads section 12 as it stands, it appears that it might suggest that different standards may apply in respect of those held in temporary custody. The amendment put forward by Senator Bacik is, therefore, well founded and would improve the Bill.

Seanad: Courts and Court Officers Bill 2009: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: In a sense, we have delegated legislation to the Minister and what Senator Bacik is saying is that we in this House are supposed to set out the principles upon which the Minister draws up regulations. I do not find the principles in the Bill. It is all procedural and there is nothing substantive in it. What is suggested in the amendment is that we should define the principles and the...

Seanad: Courts and Court Officers Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: I believe Senator Bacik wishes to table one amendment that she had moved and subsequently withdrawn on Committee Stage.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Motions (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: We welcome the fact that the Government has accepted this Fine Gael amendment. A Bill which puts €54 billion of taxpayers' money at risk should not be guillotined and that this type of amendment can emerge in a short debate before the guillotine in the Lower House today shows the pitfalls of rushing legislation and not allowing a full debate on each and every provision. The conflicts of...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Motions (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: The Senator can never resist doing this.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Motions (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: I never said it was.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Motions (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: On a point of order, I was speaking about the Lower House.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Motions (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: It is for the Cathaoirleach to decide what is a point of order.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Motions (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: It is a correction. Let us be fair.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Motions (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: She made good points.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: We have established the European Commission must be notified of the NAMA project. Whether it takes two or six months before it approves or attaches conditions to the project remains to be seen. Will we know what is notified to the European Commission? The Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, ditched the business plan which we were led to believe underpinned the project and provided the...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: A serious issue arises from statements made by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, in respect of pensions and possible measures to be introduced in the December budget, namely, the retirement of an extraordinary number of senior members of the Garda Síochána. Seven hundred and eight members of the force have retired so far this year by comparison with 243 last year. This is a...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: No, as Senator O'Toole explained.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: On rezoning and categories of land use, did the Minister say one could not rezone land back to agricultural use if it had already been zoned for residential or development purposes?

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: I want to make one or two points on the section but I want to make a preliminary remark in regard to what Senator Harris said earlier. Senator Harris has crossed the floor of the House to the Independent benches but he is a most effective apologist for Fianna Fáil and what the Government is doing both in this-----

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2009)

Eugene Regan: Please Senator.