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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: In terms of the Bill brought forward by Deputy Quinlivan, I wish to acknowledge that he has done a lot of work on this matter. I do not know if these guys manipulate the market themselves. If they were, then that would be the first place to cut out such a practice. That is my view but perhaps I am way off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: What about access to tickets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I thank Mr. Cox and Mr. Grace for their submission and assessment today. I could certainly feel some of the frustration here about how some of the questions were answered but I honestly think the witnesses have presented the information in probably the best format they could and I certainly appreciate it.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: It is illegal.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: A Councillor D'Arcy from the village of Fore on the far side of Castlepollard told me that the Data Protection Commissioner ruled against Dublin City Council for making video recordings of illegal dumping at a site. The images were very clear and the council published them on the Internet in order to try to locate the people involved. There was quite a large response and the people were...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (15 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I welcome the people who are here from Kilkenny to see their local Minister in action. I am sure the Minister of State, Deputy John Paul Phelan, will acknowledge these people with a greater depth of knowledge than I can. There is cross-party support. We have a couple of sons of Councillor Eamon Aylward in the audience. That is a strong political name in Kilkenny. Perhaps Senator Horkan...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (15 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I hope they enjoy their day out today. I request that the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, address the Seanad and advise if his Department will pay any increase in the car insurance of county councillors. I have discussed this with the Minister. Some councillors have class 2 cover, which is business cover, on their car policies in respect of...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (15 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I know that this has been discussed before and the Minister of State has been looking at it. There is a proposed model of tying councillors to a civil servant type of scale. The Minister of State mentioned his hope that it would be the way forward but is it still his opinion and does he still see it as the answer to satisfy councillors the way they should be satisfied? The Minister of...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I extend my sympathy and gratitude to Emma Mhic Mhathúna following her moving interview this morning and for telling her story. It must not have been easy. It is a dark day for the country. I am perplexed by the Minister for Education and Skills' proposed policy on school place allocation. He has hit on a new policy of intrinsic discrimination. Under the proposed legislation, if...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: Triumphalism.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: What about the sibling or parent rule? It is not that black and white.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: Will the Leader bring the Minister into the House to talk to us about it?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: According to the Minister, it will not be specific. There will be a cap on the percentage who will be allowed to do so.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: Is the Leader happy to bring him here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I thank both groups for their presentations. They have been quite informative. Insurance Ireland outlined the rise in costs and how it has tried to associate them back to claims. Some of the claims are noteworthy. From the figures they have given here, claims have risen from 6% to 12% per annum. They are not off the scale. I am trying to figure out how the sector can reconcile 2.5%,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I would like to flesh that out. Mr. Thompson has given detailed figures, which are great, and we can understand why some of these costs are built in. I am sure he has the figures on the rebound. How much has public liability insurance gone up across the market from 2012 to 2015? How much on average has car insurance gone up from 2012 to 2015, or whatever the correlating figures are?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: Mr. Thompson is knocking me down with figures everywhere else on all the money the sector has to pay out. He is not giving me the important ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: I heard all that. They have it all listed here, which I appreciate. I am asking Mr. Thompson about the reverse end of it. Can he tell us by how much insurance premiums have gone up? That is what the average Joe Soap is paying. Such persons elect us. Those are who we represent here. That is why we are all here having a chat. I would really like to know the correlation. We understand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: Are these insurance premiums throughout the country-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Aidan Davitt: -----which were taken in in recessionary times?