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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: One cannot deny the fact that companies all over the developed world are doing things that are not in the interests of society at large. They have too much of a free rein. I am completely pro business and have been in business all my life. However, one of these days people will wake up and demand greater corporate responsibility. Obviously, it is not going to be today.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: Given that committee members have just had coffee, I had better not force them to have another one. I do not know how many coffees per day they are allowed. I will not push it to a vote.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: No. I will bring it up again on Report Stage. I will consider the Minister of State's arguments and I will come back to it.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 61: In page 248, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:"237. Upon incorporation of a company, the Companies Registration Office shall issue to all listed directors a document setting our a summary of this Chapter in plain language, to include the duties provided for and the consequences for breach of such duties.This allows for the dissemination of a director's...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: Will they have an obligation to do so or will they have the option of doing so? The Minister of State is not really in a position to oblige them with this idea, is he?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: They are signing on the dotted line but they are not actually learning what responsibilities go with it.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 59: In page 240, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:"(c) environmental law; (d) health and safety law; (e) employment law, and relevant obligations relating to paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) shall be interpreted in accordance with both national and European Communities law;".This amendment is a bit more self-explanatory. It extends the obligations on directors...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: One of the reasons that we are in this situation is that so much bureaucracy and red tape was stripped away. While there is such a thing as red tape that has no benefit for anyone, much of it was designed to ensure that companies behaved in a certain manner, even in their own best interests. In the past 20 years, companies have made many decisions that were not in their best long-term...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: Will I be able to reintroduce the amendment if it is defeated on Committee Stage?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: I will press it in that case.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 56: In page 238, line 14, before “A body corporate” to insert the following:"A body corporate may be a shadow director.".The explanatory memorandum sets out that this section as drafted changes the definition of shadow director, implicitly acknowledges that a body corporate may be a shadow director but expressly provides that a body corporate is not to be...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: I did not think the Minister of State would. Forgive my ignorance. I do not understand procedure as well as I should.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: For any of us to say the law is sufficient as it stands is usually down to interpretation. Obviously, I would like to find out more about it and check what the Minister of State has told me. Can I come back on Report Stage and address the issue again if I find good cause to do so?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: I will take the Chairman's advice.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 57: In page 239, line 25, after "members." to insert the following:"In addition to the primary duty owed to the company under section 224, the directors shall owe a general duty to its employees and to its members.".We would not have companies if they did not accept that their primary duty is to make money because they would not survive if they did not. At the moment,...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: I disagree with the Minister of State. Can I examine the matter further and bring it back at a later stage?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: I would also argue that employment law is a different area. Employment law does not have the capacity to cover all situations where employees' interests are not being catered for by the company in a fair manner. Including this amendment, which puts an obligation on companies to behave with a greater sense of responsibility to their employees, might be different. It not be the way things...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Communications (5 Nov 2013)

Mick Wallace: 95. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action he will take to deal with the systemic leaking of information by An Garda Síochána to the mainstream media, which is a criminal offence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46594/13]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2013)

Mick Wallace: The impact of the reduction in jobseeker's allowance for young people could show this to be one of the poorest decisions made by this Government. I do not think that the Minister has analysed its impact on young people and the number whom it will drive into poverty. It will have a knock-on effect on the JobBridge scheme. If these people were available for €100 per week and received...

Other Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing Policy (24 Oct 2013)

Mick Wallace: A recent United Nations Environment Programme report outlined some of the dangers posed to human and non-human life by the chemicals used in the fracking process. It pointed out:Fracturing fluid consists of large amounts of water mixed with chemicals and sand. In most countries the chemicals used in fracking fluid are considered trade secrets ... If companies are not required to publicly...