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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: I will make one important linkage. There is a variation between our VAT rates and our VAT rates are too high. We have too much dependence on spending taxes in this jurisdiction. However, the British tax rate in Northern Ireland will increase. We see the real variation when we consider the levels of pay that allow the cost of living in Northern Ireland in terms of the private sector, the...

Seanad: Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (19 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: The Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 is a reaction to recent controversies which diminished the international reputation of Ireland's corporate and financial services sectors. It is the second amendment to the Companies Acts in the wake of these controversies. This is to be regretted because, despite Senator O'Toole's suggestion that we might be better off without company law,...

Seanad: ^ Bio-fuel Obligation Scheme: Motion. ^ (18 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: In the first instance I would like to agree with Senator O'Toole in the sense that laudatory motions at Private Members' time and knee-jerk reactions to them may not be the best use of this time. The core issue of this debate is important to debate. As the Minister has already said it is important to get a progress report on it. On a personal basis I am tickled pink that we have the two...

Seanad: ^ Bio-fuel Obligation Scheme: Motion. ^ (18 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: That is correct. In regard to the new standards, it is important that the average of 4% is being struck given that the Minister has shown how the 5% and other standards have oscillated as we have been experimenting with this policy approach. With a 4% average there is a guarantee that in terms of cost savings and environmental benefit, as long as the bio-fuel can be shown to have a 35%...

Seanad: Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (18 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: I welcome the introduction of the Bill and hope it is implemented as early as possible. It is important in a number of respects. It provides for rationalisation in that it makes sense of the question of how the foreshore can be used sustainably and who is responsible for making sure it is used sustainably. There has been a great deal of confusion and, as a result, unnecessary delays in...

Seanad: Defence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009: Second Stage (18 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: The Bill, while small in scale, has a particular importance for re-affirming the Government's and country's attitude towards its involvement in foreign affairs, international and national defence. It was a key component in the recent debate in terms of the second referendum on the Lisbon treaty. It is important that the promises made on the introduction of the Bill and in today's debate...

Seanad: Labour Services (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (17 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: This legislation was originally drafted on foot of the findings of the Committee of Public Accounts following its examination of whether certain activities had been supportive of the public good. In the committee's report the use of public money was deemed to be less than perfect. As the Bill was being drafted, we learned that the original findings of the Committee of Public Accounts...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: There is a great deal of doubt.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: As with other speakers I have concerns about the extent to which our financial institutions, despite the bank guarantee and recapitalisation schemes and the passing of the NAMA legislation after a great deal of detailed debate in this House, still act as though they are the people who write legislation and make the rules in this country. We need to debate this in the House. Clear signals...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: They should be discussed in the context of a debate in the House. We will always be in a chicken and egg situation on whether we should develop information technology hardware or the software and technology that allows us to use it. I would be happy to see any advance in supplying additional equipment and improving technology in the education sector. The point of the most recent revised...

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Motions (12 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: I also welcome the acceptance of this amendment. Members find themselves using an unusual procedure to amend an amendment to a Bill that went passed all Stages in both Houses. However, it is a sign of the seriousness the Government attaches to ensuring the Bill is as complete and acceptable as it can be. I hear what the Opposition Senators say about the number of amendments accepted....

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: I support the call for a debate on climate change in advance of the Copenhagen summit. The recent report of the Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security would be a good basis for such a debate and help to inform the Government when drafting the legislation. I also support Senator O'Toole's call for a debate on the nature of lobbying. The review of the programme for Government...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: The Senator's leader wants to get rid of it.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: Is Fine Gael not putting forward a candidate?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: It is a by-election. We have to have a by-election.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: This provision was included on the insistence of my party during the development of the Bill.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: I am happy it has attracted so much attention. Senator O'Toole is correct that this does not prohibit any public representative from engaging in any-----

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: Senator Norris is also correct.

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: This provision does not prohibit any public representative fulfilling his or her normal functioning role. The term "public representative" is the moot point here. Once we represent publicly-----

Seanad: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: -----there is nothing in this provision which we should fear. This provision is being included because there is a sense that we got to where we are, in terms of how dealt with issues like this in the past, because of a tendency to be furtive, clandestine and conspiratorial, which has been to the loss of our political system. The best way of addressing how this will be done in the future and...