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Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I wish to clarify that we are only discussing amendment No. 31.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 32:In page 29, line 10, after "may" where it firstly occurs to insert ", after consultation with the professional bodies,". Sinn Féin is concerned that the staff currently employed by the Law Society of Ireland and the Bar Council of Ireland to handle and investigate complaints may lose their jobs and be replaced by staff in the new authority essentially carrying...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 33:In page 29, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:“(2) The Authority should initially seek to appoint members of the Law Society and the Bar Council’s existing administrative staff, with the requisite qualifications and whose positions will be displaced with the commencement of the authority.”. Again, the section and these amendments...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (26 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 34:In page 29, line 12, after “Authority,” to insert “after consultation with the professional bodies and”. There is no need to rehash the argument. We have a difference of opinion on it. For the reasons already outlined regarding amendments No. 32 and 33, we are pressing the amendment.

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times: Statements (26 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I would like the Chair to clarify whether other Members will be allowed to speak.

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times: Statements (26 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It does not say group spokespersons only, it says group spokespersons. Surely it is very unusual in a debate such as this in this House that only they speak. In no other debate I have attended has been confined to spokespersons. This discriminates against any Senator in the House who is not in a group and is a mechanism to gag other Senators who want to speak and who have stayed here until...

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times: Statements (26 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I am asking for a ruling. I have listened carefully to the Acting Chairman but there is no reference to group spokespersons only being allowed to contribute. May other Senators speak to the issue?

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times: Statements (26 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Yes.

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times: Statements (26 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That is usually what we hear and in the normal course of any debate I have listened to which has been ordered similarly, after the group spokespersons, others are allowed to contribute. It does not exclude anybody else or refer to group spokespersons only. That is misleading. I call on the Acting Chairman to make a ruling on that.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: First, I commend Women's Aid on the excellent conference it organised today on the challenge of online and technology abuse in shaming and stalking in intimate partner relationships. It draws some very stark conclusions regarding the lack of up-to-date legislation in this area. It is an area that is changing very quickly. We have held a number of debates on this issue but it would be...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We all remember the debates in this House when the former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan, told us Irish Water would save the water system. What has become clear, however, is that the local authorities were actually doing a much better job than the new body is. In my own area, for example, there was at least a plan in place under the local authority...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Some of them, moreover, are eligible for 15% bonuses on top of that. It would be useful for the Minister to come to the House to give a breakdown of how much we are paying these Irish Water executives and indicate whether we are getting value for money or if the money would be better spent on progressing projects around the country to deal with the sewage problems that have been highlighted...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tá mé ag ardú ceist inniu a bhaineann leis an gcóras dlí choiriúil agus, go háirid, an chaoi ina bhfuil an Roinn Dlí agus Cirt agus Comhionnanais ag cur i bhfeidhm na pionóis a ghearrtar ar dhaoine. We witnessed considerable media coverage of a case of a woman from Galway who had been abused. In March her abuser pleaded guilty in Galway Circuit...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: A big issue for the Minister is the management of the penalty that has been imposed.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Is dócha gur cheart aitheantas a thabhairt ar maidin don fhógra atá déanta ag Peter Robinson go bhfuil sé i gceist aige na bróga a chrochadh suas ó thaobh cúrsaí polaitíochta de. In the context of the statement issued this morning by the Northern Ireland First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson, that he will resign his position as leader of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: They are subject to even more austerity.

Seanad: National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Many times we submit amendments and are told that we do not need to duplicate a provision that is already in some other item of legislation. I was going to let that sleeping dog lie in respect of the PAC but if it is already in Standing Orders, it is surely unnecessary to include it in the Bill. It seems to be a double whammy.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: On a point of order, I ask the Acting Chairman to clarify why the amendment has been ruled out of order.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Committee Stage (19 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Please explain where the charge arises. The amendment seeks to increase the number of members on the board from 11 to 13 people. Therefore, it seems quite strange that the amendment has been deemed to bring a charge on the Exchequer.