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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 13 amends the 2001 Act by providing the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with the power to make regulations in relation to oral hearings and the provision of information, and the practice and procedures applicable to the functioning of the agriculture appeals review panel. The section gives the Minister the power to make regulations on how the review panel would operate...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: There is no limit on the number.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Obviously, regulations would be set in compliance with the legislation. Basically, if there are other rules and regulations needed as to how a hearing can be conducted or managed, they would be fleshed out.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes. That would be in the original schemes, so people would appeal on that basis, yes. It is simple housekeeping stuff.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 14 inserts Schedule 3 after Schedule 2, providing for the composition and appointment of the chair and members of the agriculture appeals review panel, including the appointment of deputy chairpersons, the tenure of the members, provisions regarding their resignation, dismissal, remuneration and allowances, and terms and conditions of office. It also provides requirements for the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes, that is in the legislation.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: We discussed the last day whether farm organisations should have definitive nominating powers. We felt that it was better to leave this more open but that two appointees had to be people who had those competencies. That was a much more straightforward of doing it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 15 provides for the transitional arrangements after the commencement of section 9 of the Bill, permitting requests for reviews of decisions of appeals officers to the agriculture appeals review panel. It specifically provides for arrangements relating to decisions and appeals in existence before the commencement of section 9, and allows for the review of those pre-existing decisions...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 16, which is Part 3, amends section 24 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1997 by removing the requirement that the chair and members of the Aquaculture Licenses Appeals Board vacate their office on attaining the age of 70 years. Basically, it means that somebody over 70 years can be a member of the appeals board, which I think is absolutely fair.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank members for the assessment the committee did in advance and its pre-legislative report, which we sought to accommodate as best possible. I look forward to trying to bring this legislation through the Dáil and Seanad over the next period.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: That is not right either because-----

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: I assure Deputies Collins and McGrath-----

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----it is a Government Department.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: -----that there will not be any additional costs for SMEs due to the passage of this Bill. I reassure them that, as Minister of State with responsibility for this matter in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, my commitment is to reducing bureaucracy and unnecessary red tape and making it even easier to do business here in Ireland. We heard statistics earlier from a...

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (25 Sep 2024)

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (25 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (25 Sep 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Sep 2024)