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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Language Issues (27 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: 972. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will implement Conradh na Gaeilge's recommendations regarding road signs where the text in Irish is as prominent and large as the English on a trial basis. [22447/14]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I will press the amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: No; we have had a detailed debate on it.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: It is the same as the previous amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 71: In page 85, to delete lines 7 to 9.This is an important amendment. There is a number of grounds in the legislation on which the commission can decide not to investigate a complaint and one of them is that there were alternative means of redress available to the complainant. That is far too vague. It does not outline those alternatives and it is a very broad area...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I disagree with the Minister on that. It is necessary that we tighten up that space because it creates a weakness in the legislation. I am pressing the amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 72: In page 85, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(7) The Commission must provide for anonymity and confidentiality of a complainant who reports a breach of the Regulations, and a complainant who waives anonymity must be protected from discrimination, disadvantage or unfair treatment as a result of the complaint subject to natural justice being...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I agree with the Minister that some part of what we are seeking to do is already in the Bill, and what we are seeking to do is not that far removed from the Bill as drafted. I agree that if someone makes a case against one, by the time it gets to court one has a right to know the identity of that individual. That is the reason the amendment states that when it reaches that stage,...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Following on from that global attitude, there is a very strong view at the moment that the huge multiples have turnovers as great as nation-states and currently wield enormous power. Little by little nation-states are starting to withdraw from proper management of such organisations because the relationship between companies and states are becoming unbalanced. It seems to me a basic concept...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 61: In page 83, to delete lines 22 to 24 and substitute the following:“(i) to secure and retain shelf-space, to get better positioning, or to get an increase in the allocation of shelf-space, for the grocery goods of that supplier, or”.The desire is to copperfasten the end to "hello money". It is a stronger formulation of words for the Minister to put in...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 62: In page 83, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:“(iii) in respect of requiring a supplier to obtain any goods or services from a third party from whom the relevant grocery goods undertaking receives payment for this arrangement,”.The aim of the amendment is to prohibit contracts that compel suppliers to incur costs using third party...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 63: In page 83, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:“(iii) directly related to the value or volume of goods traded,”.The intention is to ban contracts that include long-term agreements which provide for the payment by suppliers of substantial off-invoice rebates at the end of the trading period. My understanding is that all of the rebates...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I wish to indicate that I would like to raise on Report Stage the issue of franchisees. I would like to make sure that an individual who operates a small firm as an independent but who is tied into a greater franchise is not covered by the onerous tasks that may be involved, because I do not think that is in the spirit of the legislation. With regard to the specific amendment, the logic is...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: I move amendment No. 54: In page 81, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following:"(a) subject to a grocery goods undertaking choosing to enter into a contract, relevant grocery goods undertaking shall have a contract with a grocery goods undertaking for the sale or supply of grocery goods,".

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The same is the case with regard to this amendment.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: A key element of the engagement between suppliers and buyers is the length of time for which credit is available. There is no doubt in my mind that a key pressure point for a supplier is the issue of terms. We have had the banks and many of the agencies dealing with credit in here and we know that credit flow and the supply of funds and working capital in businesses are a major danger at...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The danger is that, as Opposition TDs whose job it is to hold the Government to account and to scrutinise, we are being asked to go along with this on a wing and a prayer, or to buy a pig in a poke, but in reality, legislation is the place for this type of protection to be provided. It is not wrong to expect that people would get paid in time for what they provide. It is onerous that people...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: The WHO has compiled a report which indicates that Ireland has the second or third worst rate of binge drinking in the world. Perhaps it might be useful to take a steer from the Department of Health during the process in which we are engaged and use the legislation before us to try, as is our duty, to solve the massive problem of alcohol abuse.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Meath people are in the majority at this meeting so we had better be careful. A recent IPSOS-MRBI poll showed that nine out of ten respondents believe that legislation should be introduced to ensure that farmers receive a fair price. We are here as representatives of the people and that is what we should be seeking to do. Just three out of ten people were of the view that below-cost...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Committee Stage (15 May 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Level playing fields are fine if they are fair. It is surely not the Government’s objective to level a playing field with an unfair system. Its objective must be to have a fair system and then level the playing field. I do not suggest this should be limited to any one sector. Transparency, honesty and openness should apply in all sectors. We should seek to maximise the rights of...