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Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 77: In page 47, lines 3 and 4, to delete "Commission" and substitute "Investigation Unit".

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 78: In page 47, line 5, to delete "Commission" and substitute "Investigation Unit".

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 79: In page 47, line 14, to delete "Commission" and substitute "Investigation Unit".

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 80: In page 47, line 19, to delete "Commission" and substitute "Investigation Unit".

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 81: In page 47, line 23, after "Commission" to insert the following: "and the Investigation Unit".

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Order for Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to Standing Order 128(1), directs that the Railway Safety Bill 2001 in its entirety be recommitted to a Committee of the whole House. I am conscious that a lengthy period has elapsed since the select committee completed its examination of this Bill in 2003 and that many of the amendments tabled today did not arise directly from the debate in the select...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: Not for many years to come.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I agree with colleagues that this is an important and substantive Bill. I have made great efforts to have it brought before the House. The book of 159 amendments to this Bill, which are the substantive ones, was published 12 months ago. The only changes I have made are technical amendments concerning dates and timeframes but there is nothing substantive in any of the recent amendments.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: The amendments published last night comprise 13 amendments to amendments, with which I have no issue, tabled by the Deputy yesterday. When Opposition members table amendments to amendments, the procedure is that the Bills Office reproduces the full text of the amendments. All the Deputies have received is a reproduction of what was already published.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: They are the Deputy's amendments?

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: My understanding is that when amendments to amendments are tabled, as in this case to the Deputy's amendments, the Bills Office reproduces in full the amendments that have been published. In this instance, that is all that has been published. In reply to Deputy Olivia Mitchell's comment on the groupings of amendments, I understand that there are only one or two changes proposed and that they...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: The list from which I am working contains 37 groupings. I understand there are only one or two changes to accommodate some of the technical amendments. I would not come before the House and propose that we proceed if I had published substantive amendments to the Bill yesterday. The amendments were published 12 months ago and the Deputies have had those 159 amendments for that period. Those...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I do not want to give Deputy Shortall incorrect information but I am informed that those amendments are reproductions in full as a counter to the effect of her amendments which were tabled previously. That is the procedure followed by the Bills Office. My understanding is that I have not produced anything new of a substantive nature in the past 24 hours. However, the Bills Office follows the...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I have answered, in large measure, the Deputies' views on this matter. All of us accept that we would like to deal with the Bill since it has come before the House. What I have tried to do is add substantially to key safety provisions in it. We have engaged in considerable negotiation with the various bodies involved and they are correct in what they put forward in terms of safety issues. We...

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: Yes. I have moved to recommit the Bill to give all of us time to deal with the issues before us. I accept that they are substantive in nature.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I know that but I went further. I thought it would be helpful to recommit the entire Bill rather than to keep doing so only for particular amendments.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Motion to Recommit. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I thought I had moved this in a motion yesterday and that there was no objection to it. Was this motion agreed on yesterday's Order of Business? I moved it at that point.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: If that is the procedure, it is fine with me.

Railway Safety Bill 2001: Report Stage. (5 Oct 2005)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 3: In page 10, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: "(2) Notwithstanding section 69 of the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001, this Act applies to any railway works authorised by a railway order under section 43 of that Act". The purpose of this amendment is to make clear that the Bill applies to workers authorised by railway orders under the Transport...