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Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: I welcome the Minister of State to the House again to discuss this issue. It is a case of déjÀ vu because on 16 June 2004 I spoke in the House on the first outing of Senator Coghlan's Bill. A pretty clear indication was given by the Government at the time through the Minister of State with responsibility for housing that something would happen on this. Here we are two years later. The...

Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: I will leave that to Senator Brady. The fact that it has taken two years to extract a voluntary concession from the area of the country where this anti-competitive practice is going on is just outrageous. There is nothing functional about the current Irish housing market. It is dysfunctional, primarily because the pent-up demand that has been there for many years far outstrips supply....

Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: I am referring to the most important purchase anyone will have to undertake in his or her life, buying a house. It is not as if one is going into DID to pick up a washing machine or a hair dryer. We are talking about the most important financial transaction people will every make in their lives and people must have certainties and guarantees of the type the Minister of State has failed to...

Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: The Minister of State is happy to let the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform look into it and produce a Bill in respect of which he has not even made a submission. That is a dereliction of duty and responsibility and if we are really serious about stamping out this practice, which I understand only takes place in a small number of counties in Munster, and does not happen in Dublin...

Seanad: Housing (Stage Payments) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: If we are really serious about it, we should abolish the practice rather than have a two-year hiatus, about which the Minister of State seems to be blissfully happy, as the world moves on and more people are scammed. The Irish housing market, unfortunately, is riddled with scamming in a whole range of areas. One of them is the explosion of management companies. Many young couples and...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: Break out the champagne.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: Which amendment are we talking to?

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: I might have something to say on that.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: I hope the Senator will be here for my reply.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: Is that 1,500 each?

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: It was UN Resolution 1371.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: I thank Senators for the series of contributions to our amendments. However, it is not a question for other people to decide whether they are satisfied with out position, but rather a matter for us. I suspect the other countries involved in the Nordic battle group would not raise the issue because it has nothing to do with them. It is a matter for us and that is why we need to debate it....

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: It was sacrificed on the altar of expediency. For Senator Mansergh to lecture me and my party on the question of consistency and the necessity for public support, given Fianna Fáil's track record and its——

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: ——dropping of that promise to the Irish people——

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: I would take that with a very large dollop of salt. He is absolutely right, however, in saying we need a national framework. We have one, namely, the right of any political party to question that national framework in the light of the circumstances we find ourselves in. There is absolutely no suggestion in our position since 2002, and in the series of amendments we have tabled, that we would...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: It was an absolute commitment.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: We could have told them that.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: The Minister should spend time in the Seanad.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: I move amendment No. 3 In page 5, before section 6, to insert the following new section: "6.—Section 70 (as amended by section 4 of the Act of 1960) of the Principal Act is amended by— (a) inserting "or for any purpose specified in section 3 of the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006" after "International United Nations Force" in each place where those words occur, and (b) by inserting "or...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2006: Committee and Remaining Stages. (28 Jun 2006)

Brian Hayes: This section describes the way in which a contingent would be despatched following approval of the Dáil. I am referring to the insertion of a new section 2(3) in the 1960 Act. Last night Senator Moylan asked why the Seanad is not included. I accept the version as outlined by the Government. Constitutionally the Government is not even obliged to be in this House. I understand the Dáil...