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Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: The Senator is quite entitled to do so.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: Does the Minister of State wish to respond?

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: Amendment No. 4 is a Government amendment, amendments Nos. 4, 5, 134, 135, 142, 143, 152, 153, 159, 160, 176 and 177 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: The Senator has the right to discuss it further now or on report Stage.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: I fully understand. As a student, I used to dread the Companies Act 1963. Thank God I am not studying this.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: Is Senator Quinn addressing amendment No. 128 also?

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: There are three. Amendments Nos. 127, 128 and 180 are related and we will discuss them together.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: No. As it is Committee Stage, you can come back in when the Minister of State has responded. It is only on Report Stage that you are curtailed.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: I welcome the Minister of State to deal with this neat and compact Bill.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: Amendments Nos. 127, 128 and 180 are related to amendment No. 1 and they will all be discussed together.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: Yes. In view of the fact that the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Public Expenditure and Reform and Finance have been peddling mistruths about the workings of this House and the Committee of Selection, a vote on bringing the Minister for Finance to the House might apprise this House of the true facts. It would be worthwhile to bring him in so, consequently, I am pressing the amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: The Government is now stating the Whip will not be imposed, but that is a damp squib at this stage. I am proposing an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, who yesterday made a vicious attack on this House and the Committee of Selection, come and explain to the House where he got this notion of a stroke. This would not have happened if...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: It is not going to get away with it. The Minister for Finance should come before the House today.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: What lines of communication has the Leader with his peers in the Lower House? We felt the banking inquiry issue had been put to bed last week but, as a result of statements made yesterday by the Minister for Finance and earlier by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, the escapade regarding what happened at the meeting of the Committee of Selection and in this House seems to have...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: The banking inquiry is the most current issue we have to discuss.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: The politburo of the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform has colluded to try to damage the reputation of the House and the Committee of Selection. It has scored a spectacular own goal, which no own goal in the World Cup will rival. In scoring this own goal, they have tried to attack individuals in this House. There was an attempt to...

Seanad: Report of the Committee of Selection: Motion (12 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: I move: "That the report of the Committee of Selection that was held on 4 June be laid before the Seanad." Before dealing with the motion, I want to have something clarified for the record of the House. I am deeply hurt, offended and shocked by what the Tánaiste has just said in the other House concerning No. 1. He made comments that have affected my credibility and status as Chairman...

Seanad: Report of the Committee of Selection: Motion (12 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: I wish to put the record straight. On the week before we held the meeting of the Committee of Selection on 4 June----

Seanad: Report of the Committee of Selection: Motion (12 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: It is a slur on my character and that of members of the selection committee. What happened was a comedy of errors and I have been careful not to point a finger at any person who was missing. In the week before 4 June, on both the Wednesday and the Thursday, I was contacted indirectly by the Leader with a request that a Committee of Selection be held as soon as possible so as not to hold up...

Seanad: Report of the Committee of Selection: Motion (12 Jun 2014)

Denis O'Donovan: I want clarification on that first.