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Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Bill has not been in the Seanad for a year and a half.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: What did he say when he wrote to the Whips yesterday?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: A Cheann Comhairle——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Perhaps Deputy Stagg will restrain himself. The Taoiseach is about to answer.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: What did yesterday's letter say? Is the Government bringing the Bill into the House?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Stagg does that deliberately to rile the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Ignore him.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: He is a terrible man.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I thank the Taoiseach for that information. I understand he is meeting representatives of the Irish House Builders Association on the matter in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform today. Will a similar meeting be organised with representatives of tenants and owner occupiers who are in trouble?

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Healy Rae will get them.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Government has been on a go-slow for two years.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Deputy Mattie McGrath has made so many false starts that were he a horse, he would have to be put down.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Willie wants to spread his wings.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Willie wants to spread his wings as he has run out of houses.

Arbitration Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I move amendment No. 8: In page 13, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: "(6) Subsections (1) to (5) shall not apply where the arbitrator or other institution or person sought to be made liable is shown to have acted in bad faith.". The Acting Chairman is not providing any opportunity to comment on the sections as we go through the Bill.

Arbitration Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: Amendment No. 8 seeks to insert a new subsection to provide for situations where subsections (1) to (5) of section 22 would not apply where the arbitrator sought to be made liable is shown to have acted in bad faith.. This allows for liability of the arbitrator if he or she acts in bad faith. It is very much along the lines of the law in the United Kingdom. I tabled this amendment at the...

Arbitration Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I am a little surprised by the Minister's response given that the Irish branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators is of the opinion that safeguards are necessary. I wish to raise a separate but related point. The Minister is probably aware of the publication Arbitration and ADR Review, which is edited by two senior counsel. Apropos his comments about developing Ireland as a centre...

Arbitration Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Minister has clearly focused on this and has made up his mind. He has explained why he is going the way he is. I wish to put on record some advice in order to explain my puzzlement as to why the proviso on bad faith is omitted. I will quote from the document to which I previously referred. It states: An amendment proposed at Committee Stage would have granted such immunity to...

Arbitration Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: The Acting Chairman has changed the direction of arbitration internationally.

Arbitration Bill 2008: Report Stage (3 Feb 2010)

Pat Rabbitte: I am happy that the Acting Chairman's decision should stand.