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Seanad: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2014)

Sean Barrett: ...on the importance of avoiding pro-cyclical investment cycles. However, this objective is not included in the purposes of the Act, as set out in this section. The Leader said this morning, echoing the Minister's words, that this is the most important legislation since the creation of IDA Ireland. I thank the Minister's officials for the briefing they supplied. Unfortunately, we have...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Sean Barrett: I echo what Senator Bacik has said. This is the last Order of Business in this term. I thank the Leader, the Deputy Leader and leaders of all of the groups for their courtesy, efficiency and thoroughness with which they conducted the business of the House. We are very proud of this House and acknowledge the debt owed to its Leader. I thank the Cathaoirleach, as always, and his staff for...

Seanad: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister. I agree with Senator O'Brien's very generous tributes to the Minister, which are deserved. We echo those sentiments. It is interesting that both of us are opposing section 83 for completely opposite reasons; Senator O'Brien wants more in it and I want elements removed.

Seanad: Friendly Societies and Industrial and Provident Societies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (5 Jun 2014)

Sean Barrett: ...I hope that fact might influence the Minister. Of all the financial landscapes, I cannot imagine a sector that has done less harm to the economy than the friendly societies but there we are. It echoes what we were discussing this morning in regard to banking. I will not press the amendment but I regret it was not accepted. The Parliament is shutting the door on the formation of...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 May 2014)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister and wish her well in her new appointment. I echo the sentiments of Senators O'Donovan and Conway in welcoming the Bill and the Minister. It is unfortunate that it has taken a long time for this to happen. We received the report on this from the Law Reform Commission in October 2005. As a new Minister with a new broom, the Morris, Smithwick and Guerin reports...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Sean Barrett: I echo the sentiments of the previous Senators on those who contested the election and extend every good wish to the successful and unsuccessful candidates, who perform a major function in our democracy. I welcome the Leader's statement that the debate on the State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014 will be adjourned and not completed. A new book was published just today on low-cost airlines...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2014)

Sean Barrett: ...there which has to be shaken. I note that 5,000 home and business owners in the centre of Dublin are being sent letters by Irish Rail about the underground DART project. There is almost a Guerin echo in that. The underground DART project has not been sanctioned by the Cabinet or the Parliament yet Irish Rail is writing letters to people saying it would like to acquire their properties in...

Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2014)

Sean Barrett: I echo what my colleagues have said and welcome the Minister. I was inadvertently working on his behalf as the tobacco lobbyists are about again and were asking for interviews. However, I will not let the Minister down in the cause. I just told them to send in whatever papers they have and I would read them. However, I do not wish to be lobbied by the tobacco industry. I think we are ad...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Apr 2014)

Sean Barrett: I echo all the sentiments expressed about Jody Blake. When she left Golden in Tipperary she ushered in a golden era in the Seanad. I thank her very much for all her kindness to us all. This week, most generous tributes were paid by Queen Elizabeth in her speech at Windsor Castle to Daniel O'Connell as a parliamentarian. This parliamentary tradition is extremely important in this country....

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

Sean Barrett: I echo the sympathies expressed to the McAughtry and Kelly families and, in their time of sadness, thank the McFadden family and the people of Athlone for receiving so many Members of the Oireachtas last week. I compliment the Government on today being the first day of the abolition of the travel tax. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, and the Minister of State...

Seanad: Child Protection: Motion (5 Mar 2014)

Sean Barrett: ...the sexual exploitation of children and the exploitation of children through clothing, make-up and so on, as the Minister has described. Our stand this evening is very important and welcome. It echoes a proud tradition because, when children were being abused and beaten in schools, two Senators, John Boland and Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, were to the fore in opposing that abuse of children....

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Sean Barrett: I echo Senator Whelan's comments about the need for a debate on energy policy. The success of fracking, whether we like it or not, has changed energy prices and we need to review the policy. Will the Deputy Leader comment on the remarks of Mr. Barroso last weekend that an independent Scotland might not be a suitable member of the EU? It is entirely inappropriate that he should have...

Seanad: Humanitarian Situation in Syria, South Sudan and Central African Republic: Statements (30 Jan 2014)

Sean Barrett: ...said about politics, “to jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” We have a lot of experience in peacemaking so the role of peacemaker would be an extremely valuable one for us to play. I echo all that my colleagues said about the countries the Minister of State is helping. With regard to the welcome for the ceasefire, I note the United Nations Office for the...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2014)

Sean Barrett: I echo the calls for debate. We must establish why the political parties, Government and opinion polls were so wrong. People wanted the Seanad's unique contribution to governance to be retained and not to have it dominated, as heretofore, by the political parties.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)

Sean Barrett: I echo the comments of Senator MacSharry on Irish Water. Following 18 hours of debate in the Seanad, we have had two days of hearings on the issue. I compliment Deputies Michael McCarthy and John McGuinness on chairing the two committee meetings in question. After 30 hours of parliamentary time, we still do not know what will be the price of water or the generous free allowance. A culture...

Seanad: Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Dec 2013)

Sean Barrett: I echo everything that has been said and thank the Minister and her officials. I did not know the people directly involved but obviously they deeply influenced the likes of Senators Quinn and White. Delays have been a feature and they are regrettable. Is there a possibility that if the 23 cases cannot be resolved by 31 October next that an extension might be considered? In my eyes, the...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2013: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2013)

Sean Barrett: I echo Senator Byrne's sentiments of our debt to the Leader for organising this debate and the instant appearance here of the Minister of State. He is always very helpful to this House and his appearance here at short notice is a startling illustration of this. Part of the reform agenda must be that we remain vigilant of our public finances. Post exit the bailout we must plan our affairs to...

Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Sean Barrett: ...shall not give a direction under this section without first consulting the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources." I cannot figure out the reason that subsection is in the Bill. It brought back echoes of the infamous incorporeal meeting of the Cabinet in 2008 when the Minister of State's predecessor, Mr. John Gormley, was not contacted. He was in Sandymount and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)

Sean Barrett: ...add up to an unsatisfactory macro performance, the same people who crashed the economy in 2008 could be back for an encore. I therefore welcome what Professor McHale has said on that. I would echo what Deputy Boyd Barrett said about the Finance Bill and property bubbles. I do not know how good we are about Keynesianism these days. In the United States a stock exchange bubble is...

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2013: Motion (4 Dec 2013)

Sean Barrett: ...people. I appreciate all the points that have been made but if the industry is so good - particularly horse racing - it should be putting money into the Exchequer, not seeking this kind of subsidy. I do have misgivings therefore and I echo what an bord snip said about it. It seems to me that racing attendances are in decline and that a lot of race courses around the country are...