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- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I am sorry to bore the Minister by going over the same points, but obviously Senator Walsh wasââ
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: âânot listening to any of the debate, so I will have to put it on the record again for him. My amendments, such as the exemption, reduce the number of companies covered by the Minister's proposal. I am raising the required level of turnover for the companies limited by shares from â¬15 million to â¬25 million per year, and making a number of other changes which I will not discuss. It...
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: No, I am not.
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I am not doing that, and I said I was not doing that.
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Agreed.
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I said an auditor was a watchdog not a bloodhound. It is not an original phrase.
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: That is fine.
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: This could be a big issue on the doorsteps.
- Seanad: Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I thank the Leader for allowing this discussion to take place so soon after the request from Senator Fitzgerald and myself. It was important to do so. I will begin by looking into the future and I ask the departmental officials present to consider what I say. I will echo a point made by Senator Mary White and put five simple facts on the record. Recently, the Irish Mental Health...
- Seanad: Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: My colleague, Senator Norris, has also done so. I have raised issues from the Kilkenny incest report to the Murphy report in 1998 and all the various matters along the way. I want to put on the record, without fear of contradiction, that every single proposal I ever brought forward on child protection was opposed left, right and centre, and I will provide the House with some examples. One...
- Seanad: Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Senator Norris and myself sat on these benches for debates on an issue Senator Norris has raised three or four times in the past month, that is, the equal status legislation. We have a system where the people who are responsible, the same orders who have not put more money into the kitty, are running schools and hospitals and even if they do not work in the schools or hospitals they decide...
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: This is a sensible and useful amendment which strengthens the legislation enormously. There should be no difficulty supporting it.
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I move amendment No. 18: In page 14, before section 11, to insert the following new section: 11.âThe following section is substituted for section 45 of the Act of 2003: "45.âThe Act of 1990 is amended by inserting the following in Part X: 205Eâ(1) In this sectionâ 'amount of turnover' and 'balance sheet total' have the same meanings as in section 8 of the Companies (Amendment) Act...
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: In thanking the Minister for her comprehensive response, I gently point out that she is wrong on all points. Some of the Minister's comments were embarrassing. I also point out to my colleague, Senator Ryan, that I used the words "form a judgment" to explain how the legislation would work and they do not feature in the Bill. In his response to the Company Law Review Group, the Director of...
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: Is the director of a company which is dumping materials in an unauthorised dump supposed to know about the practices in which his company is engaged? Must I engage a consultant to tell me about this kind of thing?
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: No, it is not. The Minister has been given a false trade on this matter. I will resign my seat if she can provide information to support her contention that this measure would cost millions of euro. I have been listening to a similar argument since 2002. We must abandon the idea that companies must engage consultants to tell then they are complying with the law. Consultants are precisely...
- Seanad: Companies (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: The Minister is arguing that company directors will have to wheel in consultants if they want to be able to state their companies are compliant with the law. We may as well close down the whole system if that is the case. That is the precise argument used in 2003 and there is no basis for it. People act within the law to the best of their ability. If my company contracts another firm to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: On the issue we will discuss further today, whatever about the length of time from now until the end of July, about which I will listen to what the Government has to say, and which sounds long and may not be too long, the one point on which I and everybody in House completely agree with Senator Fitzgerald is that this is a time for political action. If there is to be a report, whenever it...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: When it came for the order to pay up in 1996 that â¬100 million had been reduced to â¬4 million. That is what we are facing. The order has already set up a trust. I do not have confidence in what Brother Edmund Garvey stated in the past couple of days. First, the Government should ensure the order pays up, as the order is leading us to believe without saying so. Second, if there are...
- Seanad: National Asset Management Agency: Statements (26 May 2009)
Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I pushed hard for the debate because at the time I thought there was a need for discussion of the different views put forward, particularly by Fine Gael, the Labour Party and consultants outside the House. I listened with some fascination to the entire proceedings of the joint committee and the debate was exactly what should have taken place a...