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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: I compliment An Post on its decision to go all electric with its postal delivery fleet throughout the country by 2022. By 2020, electrification will be extended to the cities of Cork, Galway, Limerick, Kilkenny and Waterford. This is a great decision by the company. By the end of 2019, Dublin city postal deliveries will be all be made by electric vehicles and electric bicycles. I also...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: That is a matter of legal opinion.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: I support Senator Coghlan on the issue he raised regarding services on trains and at various stations throughout the country. My station in Castlebar is no better. We have a station master, Mr. Noel Hogan, who is very approachable and does a great job but when he is off at various times during the week or at the weekend there is no cover for him. As Senator Coghlan pointed out, if people...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: We need the Minister to come to the House to discuss this matter.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: I wish the Minister of State well with the legislation. It is an important item of legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: Quite a few of the questions I had intended to ask have been asked, so we will not go over that ground again. Some figures mentioned as possible price tags for the children's hospital include €950 million and €1.4 billion. Has there been a tendering process all along which led to all of those increases? Was there a main contract in the first instance which was supplemented by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: Has it all been tendered? From what we have read in the papers it seems that BAM won the tender bid because it bid €130 million lower than the next lowest offer. There was a tendering process after the initial contract, all the way along. The public can be fully assured that it is not just extras that is driving the cost of this towards €2 billion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: On Brexit, we had a discussion with the Revenue Commissioners last week about sealed containers going through a third country, for example, sealed containers travelling from Ireland, through the UK and onwards to Europe. Will there be a requirement for sealed containers from Northern Ireland travelling through southern Ireland, into the UK and on to Europe? Will they be treated in the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: A lorry in the North might be treated differently from a lorry in the South. The lorry in the North, if travelling through the UK, would not be seen as going through a third country, whereas the lorry from southern Ireland, if travelling through the UK, would be seen as travelling through a third country. How is that situation going to pan out if there is to be no border?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: I can foresee a situation where one lorry would have to be treated differently from the other. I am sure the container travelling from Northern Ireland through the UK would not have to be sealed going through the UK, whereas containers travelling from the South would have to be sealed. The Minister mentioned air transport and that a number of unilateral, limited and temporary measures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: Does that apply in the event of a hard Brexit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: If there is an ordinary agreement, the status quowill remain in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: The deadline is seven months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: Legislation will be required in that area. Will that be covered by the legislation it is proposed to bring forward in the next week or two?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Paddy Burke: On the transport of goods, many transport companies have their own storage. We have heard that 600 extra staff are being taken on by the Department of Finance or the Revenue Commissioners to help deal with Brexit. I am sure that many of those companies, whether the manufacturing companies which have their own storage facilities or an independent storage company that warehouses goods on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the fact that the Minister is coming in next week. I would hope that by the time he comes in this issue will be resolved. Those involved have no choice but to go back to the negotiating table. I hope they do that immediately and bring a resolution to the whole issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: I welcome the delegation and compliment it on publishing a final report. On liquidity and how individual credit unions can survive a cash shortage, I note the proposal that they could follow the Canadian model whereby there would be centralised liquidity for those credit unions. I ask the witnesses to provide some background into their thinking in that regard. How do individual credit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: At the moment every credit union has a facility with some bank or other institution and they are paying for it even though they might not be using it. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: How would a centralised liquidity operation work? Would all the credit unions with surplus cash would pay in, or would it be organised by the Central Bank, or who would be the centralised liquidity authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Paddy Burke: Interest rates were never lower. Why would credit unions be looking to change the legislation that restricts them to a 1% interest rate in order to be able to charge 2% a month? That is a 100% increase at a time when interest rates are historically low.