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- Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (8 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Equality Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: I agree.
- Seanad: Equality Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: That was the old-fashioned way of doing things before the change in Standing Orders brought about by Senator Ryan. Is that not the position, a Chathaoirligh?
- Seanad: Equality Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: It was raised at the Committee on Procedure and Privileges.
- Seanad: Equality Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: It depends on what type of a day the question is put. I welcome the Minister of State back to the House. It is difficult to discover what is going on here unless one is dealing with consolidated legislation. I have repeatedly called for consolidated Acts because, as the Minister of State knows, he is not only referring to one piece of primary law, but, on the last count, a total of 18 pieces...
- Seanad: Equality Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: The Senator will put up with it, however.
- Seanad: International Development Association (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: I welcome the Minister of State. In the last paragraph of his speech he answered the first question I was about to ask. Why is this matter coming from the Department of Finance? Apparently it is because of our commitment to the World Bank and to the International Development Association. As the Minister of State is aware, in recent years much of our support to sponsoring countries we have...
- Seanad: International Development Association (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: Like the Chinese example.
- Seanad: International Development Association (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: The dialectic.
- Seanad: National Monuments (Amendment) Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Barron Report: Statements. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: In deference to Senator Jim Walsh, I will be happy to allow him to open the debate, given that he was a member of the sub-committee.
- Seanad: Barron Report: Statements. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: I welcome the Minister to the House and welcome this debate. It is important that the debate should take place in both House, particularly in light of the agreement on the recommendations from the sub-committee. I ask the Government to consider why it is that, some months after the publication of the sub-committee's report, one of its most specific and straightforward recommendations,...
- Seanad: Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, line 32, to delete "Government" and substitute "Houses of the Oireachtas". I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dea, to the House. We had a good discussion on this Bill on Committee Stage yesterday. The only amendments Fine Gael has re-tabled relate to the issue of ownership concerning the commission itself, who it reports to, who staffs it and to whom...
- Seanad: Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: The Bill is attempting to create a totally new animal. While I accept what the Minister said, the delays in the tribunals to date have not arisen from the involvement of Members of the Oireachtas or in the way in which those reports are given to them. One could argue that the terms of reference put in place by the Members of the Oireachtas initially led to the delays because it led to the...
- Seanad: Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: I thank the Minister of State and, in particular, his officials for the work they put into the Bill. The legislation that came to the Seanad was better than the Bill initially published. That is as a result of a fair degree of cross-party consensus. As the Minister of State rightly said, amendments from my party and the Labour Party were accepted in the other House which made our work easier...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: All is forgiven.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (7 Jul 2004)
Brian Hayes: The Leader is back on the Senator's Christmas card list.