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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 2 of Act of 2003 3.Section 2 of the Act of 2003 is amended—(a) in subsection (1A), by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (a):“(aa) the foreign national being employed outside the State by a foreign employer and being required by the foreign employer to...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Seán Sherlock: In essence, in language which is legislative with regard to speaking on the record, the nub of the issue is that multinational companies have welcomed the clarity we will provide on issuing permits. Notwithstanding the language used, it provides greater clarity for workers.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Seán Sherlock: We have engaged with stakeholders on it and through this engagement it is necessary to use legislative language, but I assure the Deputy it does provide clarity.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, line 11, to delete "following section" and substitute "following sections".Amendment No. 5 is a technical amendment and consequential to the insertion of two sections in the 2003 Act, section 2B in the published Bill and section 2C under amendment No. 14. Amendment No. 6 is a drafting amendment to the new section 2B inserted into the 2003 Act by section 4...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2014)

Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 6: In page 6, line 26, after "employment" where it firstly occurs to insert "or service".

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Patent Legislation (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Sherlock: The international Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC), signed in February 2013, entails the establishment of an international court that will, when operational, have exclusive competence for actions for infringement and validity in respect of the new European unitary patent. My Department chairs an inter-Departmental Committee with relevant Departments of State to inform the policy...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tax Code (24 Jun 2014)

Seán Sherlock: The UK Patents Box scheme, which came into force in April 2013, is a fiscal tool that allows companies to apply a lower rate of corporation tax to profits earned after that date from their patented inventions and certain other innovations. While responsibility for Ireland’s tax regime rests with the Minister for Finance, my Department is very conscious of the need to maintain a...

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

Seán Sherlock: The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that the Minister may prescribe the most cost-effective manner in which the courts service can maintain unclaimed dividends and balances.

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

Seán Sherlock: The amendment is typographical in nature and does not have a substantial impact on the Bill.

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

Seán Sherlock: The amendment merely purports to insert a female pronoun into this section.

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

Seán Sherlock: I am not in a position to adopt these amendments. The Bill is concerned with company law only. In general terms, company law concerns itself with the fiduciary duties that a director owes to the company alone while recognising that a director ought to "have regard to the interests" of his or her employees. It would be wholly inappropriate to include the proposed provisions in the Bill....

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

Seán Sherlock: The purpose of this amendment is to clarify the court's discretionary powers in circumstances where a company fails to comply with a requirement to deliver within 14 days after the commencement of the members' voluntary winding up a copy of the declaration to the registrar.

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

Seán Sherlock: The purpose of the amendment is to clarify that "special majority" means a majority in number representing at least 75% in value of the creditors, class of creditors or members or class of members, as the case may, will be present and voting in person or by proxy at the scheme meeting. The section defines a number of terms for the purposes of this Part.

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

Seán Sherlock: The purpose of the amendments is to remove the obligation to make documents available for physical inspection where documents are available on the website of the company free of charge.

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

Seán Sherlock: I am considering introducing an amendment on Report Stage to cater for the consequences of a merger on real or immovable property. It may be possible to improve the language of these provisions to increase certainty with respect to the property transactions and thus reduce the paperwork and costs to business associated with a merger.

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

Seán Sherlock: The purpose of the amendment is to correct a subsection reference.

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

Seán Sherlock: This amendment is to clarify the District Court's jurisdiction and that the extension of filing period applications in respect of annual returns is limited to returns that are delivered to the CRO on or after the commencement of this section. This would preclude companies that have already filed annual returns from seeking extensions of time and other misuses of the section, such as seeking...

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

Seán Sherlock: The purpose of these amendments is to exclude securitisation-type companies from the audit exemption criteria. Securitisation companies are companies that are either registered financial vehicle corporations within the meaning of Article 1.2 of FVC Regulation (EC) No. 24/2009 of the European Central Bank or financial vehicles engaged solely in activities where economic participation is by...

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

Seán Sherlock: The purpose of this amendment is to refine the definition of "charge". It is appropriate to have "shares, bonds or debt instruments" contained in a distinct sub-clause.

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

Seán Sherlock: The purpose of this amendment is to provide that the definition of "charge" could be altered by statutory instrument in the future to ensure continued alignment with a financial collateral arrangement under the European Community’s financial collateral arrangements regulations.