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Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: He or she would be.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I can give the Senator an assurance on that. Section 22 amends section 21 of the 1992 Act as follows: "[S]uch person having relevant experience in relation to radiological protection as the Minister shall appoint." In other words, the person who takes up that role in future will have to be knowledgeable about radiological protection and will be a director of the organisation. There will...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Senator's point is well made. None of the directors is currently identified in the way he outlined but the section will require the head of this section to have radiological expertise. The five directors are not named as leading each of the five sections. Currently there is a director general and four sections and this Bill increases the number to five. That will mean five directors....

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I refer the Senator to section 6 of the Bill, which pertains to the transfer of functions to the EPA. Section 6(1) reads "All functions that, immediately before the dissolution day, were vested in the dissolved body by or under any enactment shall on that day stand transferred to the [EPA]". Section 6(2) states "References in any enactment ... passed before the dissolution day, or in any...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes I did, based on personal experience.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: Of course, I will read them.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The issues raised are very important. To deal with the last one first, the best way to give information to the Seanad is to ask the chief executive of the RPII, Dr. McGarry, to write to the Seanad with an up-to-date report and perhaps to send copies of the annual report to each Member to clarify the issues. The Department has reassured me on that point. The Senator is right to stress the...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have been a few times. Twice I was let in and once not. The time I was not allowed in got great publicity because I had been invited but the people with me were deemed to be in breach of security. In fact it was a Channel 4 news team which filmed it from the outside. I think that rebounded on Sellafield. That was in my role as a humble Senator. As a Minister of State I deal with it...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I might have none.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The EPA goes on.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will not be accepting them.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am being nice.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I doubt that.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am sorry. That is my phone.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: No, it is not. It is a family issue. I am sorry about that.

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the further debate in the House on this very important issue. I want to give a reassurance, which Senators on all sides are entitled to and the Government is obliged to give, that there is no diminution in the functions or the powers of the RPII, which will be the same as previously. There is no difference. The point is that in recognition of its extremely important role in that...

Seanad: Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: If it rings it will be on the record for everybody.

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I move amendment No. 23:In page 45, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"Report and information to Minister relating to operation of Fund 49.The Agency shall in each report under section 13(1) of the Act of 1990, subject to preserving confidentiality in regard to commercially sensitive information, include the following information in relation to the Fund for the year to which...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: I move amendment No. 25:In page 64, to delete lines 20 to 23 and substitute the following:"21. Any direction given to the Commission under section 19A, 19AA or 19B of the National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000 before the Fund constitution date shall have effect on or after that date (until revoked) as if given to the Agency under section 42, 47(4)(b)or(c)or 43, respectively.".

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Fifth Stage (9 Jul 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Bill involves the dissolution of a number of bodies as part of the process of restructuring the NTMA. These are the NTMA advisory committee, the National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission, the State Claims Agency policy committee and the National Development Finance Agency and its board. On behalf of the Minister for Finance, I have been asked to thank all those who have served over the...