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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy, I need to move you towards the amendments.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Please speak directly to the amendment if you can, Deputy. I have been a member of a credit union myself for 40 years. I could talk about it all day here. Please speak to the amendment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I have read your amendment, Deputy. It refers to services.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Focus on that, please.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Before we withdraw the amendment another series of amendments will be taken during this part of the debate. Amendments Nos. 26 and 25 are in the names of Deputies Boyd Barrett and Michael McGrath, respectively. The related amendments are to be discussed together. Are there any other comments or proposals with regard to this section and the related amendments?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: If amendment No. 11 is agreed then amendment No. 16 cannot be moved. Amendments Nos. 11 to 13, inclusive, and Nos. 15 to 17, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together. Amendment No. 16 is alternative to Amendment No. 11 and amendments Nos. 13, 15 and 17 are alternative to amendment No. 12.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I will summarise where we are as of now because this is a very substantive section, particularly as we go on to amendment No. 3. The general concern arising, as expressed by some committee members and by some representations made to the committee, is that some aspects of the Bill, and particularly the section we are discussing now, may have unintended consequences for the sector. One of the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 3, 18, 25, 26, 34, 44, 47, 54, 58, 62, 64, 84, 101,108 and 110 to 112, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Amendment No. 26 is an alternative to amendment No. 25. Amendments Nos. 111 and 112 are alternatives to amendment No. 110.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I shall bring in one or two other speakers, Deputy O'Donnell and Deputy Heather Humphreys who is deputising for Deputy Michael McNamara.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I welcome the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, and his officials. The purpose of this meeting is to consider the Credit Union Bill 2012, which was referred to the select sub-committee by Dáil Éireann on 14 November 2012. It is proposed to conclude consideration of Committee Stage today. Is that agreed? Agreed. I propose a 20 minute sos at 4 p.m. and if business is...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Union Bill 2012: Committee Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 and 4 to 10, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together by agreement.

Electoral Commission Bill 2012: First Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to create an Electoral Commission; to provide for a national register of electors; and to provide for connected matters.The purpose of the Bill is to create an electoral commission and transfer to it a range of functions performed by the Minister, the SIPO, the referendum commission, the constituency commission, local...

Electoral Commission Bill 2012: First Stage (15 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (15 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the regulations that apply to a person (details supplied) who wishes to change from a temporary full time panel to a whole time permanent panel in another area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50662/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals. (14 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I know that Deputy Mathews has to be in the Chamber, so I will excuse him early.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals. (14 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy could ask a question, but he may not make a speech.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals. (14 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Tobin and his colleagues for attending the committee. It is hard to measure whether this is stagnant or a work in progress. If there are any further proposals for directional indications or shifts on this, I would be grateful if Mr. Tobin could inform the committee of same by correspondence. I wish to thank the officials for attending the committee today. It has been of great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals. (14 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Tobin. From the layman's perspective and having listened to the earlier presentation by Ms Brenda McVeigh regarding the financial transaction tax, is the CCCTB an optional tax base like the financial transaction tax or is this one to which, if it moves ahead, all member states must adhere?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals. (14 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals. (14 Nov 2012)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay. If one takes Apple, the biggest company in the world, which is based in Cork, it arrived there a long-----