Results 11,881-11,900 of 16,492 for speaker:Ciarán Lynch
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: I note section 8 is opposed by Deputy Fleming.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 4 and 5 are related and will be discussed together by agreement.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 8 and 9 are related and will be discussed together by agreement.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Perhaps we should have regulator at committee meetings in regard to speaking about banks.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Can the Minister clarify if there is a regulator for the gaming, gambling and lottery industry currently?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: In light of the betting legislation that will be coming before the committee and the recognition that there is an "undertake" of revenue on foot of regulation in the broader gambling industry, will the lottery regulator be subsumed or evolved into a general gambling-gaming-lottery regulatory structure in future?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Apart from the fate of this amendment because that is a discussion for the floor, if the Minister is making a proposal, regardless of the outcome of this amendment, that he will come before this committee within a specific timeframe I will accept that.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Before I put the question I will clarify for the committee that, regardless of what happens on Report Stage, the Minister has made a formal offer to come before this committee after the licence has been awarded and a specific sum has been set aside. The committee will then engage with him on that issue. That is a formal proposal.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: How stands the amendment?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: I will come back to Deputy Fleming. We are not making noises at one another anymore, Deputy McDonald. I gather you wish to come in.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: I ask the Deputy to finish his point and then I will bring in the Minister.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Will the Minister address the questions of Deputy McDonald and Deputy Boyd Barrett?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: For the purpose of clarity, a mechanism can be put in by way of legislation but that is not to say that there is no mechanism available to do it. I ask the Minister to clarify that. This meeting is being broadcast live. There may be people watching these proceedings at home. The national children's hospital is a significant part of the national lottery legislation.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: I accept that comment but it is very much in the context of what we are discussing this afternoon.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: The tendering of the national lottery will arrive with a capital injection to the Exchequer.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Okay. It is a receipt, and the desired intention is that there will be capital ring-fencing of a specific sum of money. We do not know what the tendering processes will be and therefore we cannot say to the dollar how much that capital sum will be or whatever. Deputy Fleming indicated that the National Treasury Management Agency may be a holding account for this while planning permission...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Will the Deputies address their remarks through the Chair?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: We can all move upstairs to the canteen, which would be great. I could go into my office and do a bit of work, or we can discuss it using the structure of a Committee Stage debate.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Questions must be directed through the Chair.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Ciarán Lynch: Does Deputy McDonald wish to comment?