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- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Appointments to State Boards (18 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: 143. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of bodies in respect of which he has the authority to appoint board members. [7474/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (18 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: 302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the options identified by his Department in terms of State investment in flood defences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8148/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Services Provision (18 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: 798. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the progress to date in reforming rural transport and how his Department is working with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Reform to devise the rural development strategy to include improvements in rural transport, tourism and diversity of sporting facilities and activities; and if he will make a statement...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: What is the difference between a marina and a pier-harbour?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: That is Shannon Development-owned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: Is the €8.8 million part of, or in addition to, the €70 million that was announced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: I referred to correspondence dating back beyond 1992.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: If it is the case that coastal flooding and erosion and inland flooding have been unified, why are landowners in west County Clare and along the Shannon Estuary being told that certain infrastructure is the responsibility of the Office of Public Works, while other elements of infrastructure are the responsibility of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: That is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Effects of Recent Storms on Fishing Community (13 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: I welcome the allocation of €8.8 million for the repair of the publicly owned harbour network. To clarify, is this allocation part of the €70 million provision the Government announced after the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday or in addition to it? Dr. Beamish made the distinction that coastal protection works are a matter for the Office of Public Works while piers and so on are...
- Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: I have been surprised and disappointed by some, but not all, of the Opposition contributions to the debate. Clearly to some politics is simply a game. Talk of letting the cat out of the bag at a time of such unprecedented damage to large parts of Clare is, frankly, depressing. I say as much as someone who lives in and cares about Clare as well as being an elected representative. Politics...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: Before we finish the final parts of the Bill, I feel obliged to bring this up at this stage. I was encouraged by what the Minister said just before the break. Will an amendment be included to the effect that any rule of law prohibiting either a barrister or a legal practitioner from instituting or prosecuting legal proceedings to recover professional fees owed to them is hereby abolished?...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: It may be necessary to include that this is without prejudice to any rule relating to liability for professional negligence because the two were linked at one point. Recent House of Lords decisions - maybe 100 years ago - separated the two, but-----
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: What about the issue of education and maintaining as large a number of pupillages as possible?
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: I also raised education and access and how that will be paid for.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: It is welcome that amendment No. 172 will provide for the continuation of a unitary roll. I was under a misapprehension from what the Minister had said at our last meeting that the Bar Council would maintain its roll of practising barristers who were members of the Law Library and that a separate roll would be maintained for non-members.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: That is welcome.
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: That is welcome, but I have several questions. The roll will be a public document that I imagine will be available on a website and certain details will be published of all barristers. The details will further the objectives specified in section 9(4) which include informing the public of available legal services and maintaining competition. I have no objection to any of this information...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: Subsection (6) provides for a separate commencement date. Logically, this section should commence with the establishment of the authority. Why is a separate commencement date envisaged? The Minister referred to a levy in his introduction to the amendments under Part 8. I presume there will be a cost in being entered on the roll of barristers. Will the cost be the same for all...
- Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Feb 2014)
Michael McNamara: Can I speak to sections 74 and 75?