Results 5,781-5,800 of 11,050 for speaker:Timmy Dooley
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: Similar to Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and so on.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: I move amendment No. 8: In page 31, after line 42, to insert the following:“35.The Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998 is amended by inserting a new section 32A as follows:“32A.The IAS scheme shall not be allowed to close its pension scheme except where the scheme has reached a minimum 90 per cent funding standard.”.”.May I discuss the amendment in...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: There is no issue. When we discuss the section we will have the opportunity to address issues that arise from the section so we will be facilitated.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: That is accepted. There will be an opportunity before the section is passed to discuss any elements in it.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: The effect of amendment No. 9 would have been to create a new section 35. The intention was to address the funding position of the Irish Aviation Authority scheme in the event of its being wound up. My view, which other Deputies share, is that there should be a provision to ensure that until it has reached a minimum of 90% funding, there should not be the capacity to eliminate it or close...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: We voted on whether the section stands. It is still possible to amend it.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: No, because one could technically amend what has already been amended.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: I will try not to be repetitive because Deputy Clare Daly has covered some of my concerns arising from the Minister's last comments. Regarding a comment made by Deputy Michael McNamara, lest there be any doubt, I do not have an objection to the passage of the Bill, but, like him, I do have an objection to section 34 which I do not believe is necessary or wise at a time when we do not have...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: Prior to the ministerial amendments I had already tabled an amendment to delete section 34. I have seen nothing in the Minister's amendment that would negate the necessity of opposing the section. The Minister will appreciate that this is the first time the Government has sought to legislate for a private pension scheme. That creates great concern. It is well worth noting the deep concern...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: I am sure there were.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: This section refers to superannuation, and we are opposing it for that reason. I will discuss this more fully under section 34.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: My apologies. It relates to the two previous ones. As I opposed the two preceding ones, I oppose section 33 as well.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: Is the Minister deleting subsection (4)?
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: What the Minister is saying is that the functional management structure that existed at Shannon and Cork Airports is no longer in place and that there is now more hierarchy within the organisation than heretofore.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: Is it envisaged that it will be provided with an annual budget?
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: Am I correct that the Minister is saying it will not have its own budget?
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: On the basis of the Cork Airport position within the DAA, I would have thought that like any business unit within a large multiplicity of entities it would be assigned a budget on a annual basis based on its own projections and that, if necessary, it would receive the support of Dublin in the context of the considerable borrowing referred to by the Minister which has to paid down, I presume...
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: I accept that.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: I accept that at DAA board level it is a separate business entity.
- Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2014)
Timmy Dooley: A view previously expressed is that Shannon and Cork Airports had been retarded to some extent in their potential for growth because of the manner in which the DAA monopolised the entire aviation activity in the country. The view was that it retained all of the activity for itself and left only a small amount of business to the other airports. The notion of independence would allow more...