Results 14,341-14,360 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: It is envisaged that the money will be payable to whatever mechanism we determine in the last quarter of this year.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: No it will not be opened until the legislation is enacted.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: We cannot pre-empt the process in the Oireachtas but as soon as it is done.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 12, line 14, to delete “3 months” and substitute “4 months”.The amendment is simply to delete the phrase "3 months" and replace it with "4 months". A period of four months is the standard for a listed company to publish accounts in Ireland. It is proposed to amend sections 22 (2), 47(2) and 47(3) in order that this standard...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 12: In page 12, lines 25 and 26, to delete “shall make a report to the Houses of the Oireachtas each year regarding the regulation of the National Lottery and”.Section 22 currently provides that the regulator shall be required to make an annual report to the Minister and the Oireachtas committee with functions relating to the national lottery. 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)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy likes to meander into the challenges of sexism as well, which I greatly resent.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I will deal with the issues.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I will deal with the issue directly put to me but if I am patronised or matronised I will deal with that in like fashion. These are very serious matters. This is serious legislation. I know there are styles that Deputies bring to bear on these things. The style of sudden alarm is one of Deputy McDonald's and I want to refer to that because this should be done in a calm way.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I should like to deal with the issues. Certainly we gave this much thought, in as much as we could, during the negotiation of the programme for Government. In the preparation for policy in advance of the programme for Government, we considered, in response to the Mahon tribunal and other recommendations, what would be a proper cooling-off period between holding office and being re-employed....
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The idea is that this is a job and that he would not be doing any other job from which payment would accrue. I will reflect further on the particular point because I am not sure whether there is a separate payment for that or if it is in the terms of reference for the job.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I will ask my officials to examine the issue. The Deputy is interested in the operator having a role. I will check whether there is a European regulatory role.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I am very mindful of the point made by Deputy McDonald and I am well aware of the content of the programme for Government, having led the Labour Party team in negotiating it. We are mindful of what we heard in the Mahon tribunal and in the recent debates on this issue. We have had a lengthy debate on the shaping of the lobbying legislation. I do not want to dwell on this point now, but we...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is making a very fair point. That is part of my consideration. The longer the prohibition, the stronger the case such a person would have for significant recompense. I do not want to create such a burden on the public service as I think there would be public resistance to it. If the period is reasonable - I believe 12 months is a reasonable period - people would understand on...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: There is a committee at present - I am speaking off the top of my head because I am not a member of it, but as far as I am aware - which comprises the Secretary General of my Department and the Secretary General of the Government, but what I intend to do in the lobbying legislation is to specify that in law.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The person from the private sector could not go back into the gambling area for a period of 12 months if this legislation is enacted. Let me deal with the issues raised. I know Deputy McDonald likes to couch everything in nice alarmist terms.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: If I may speak?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 7, line 32, to delete "and".Amendment No. 4 seeks the insertion of a comma. Amendment No. 5 seeks to ensure that the long-term sustainability of the national lottery is safeguarded. I have reviewed this since the Second Stage debate and now believe that the long-term sustainability of the national lottery is a consideration that the regulator must in the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 7, line 33, to delete "protected." and substitute the following:"protected, and (c) that the long term sustainability of the National Lottery is safeguarded.".