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- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3:In page 8, lines 19 to 22, to delete all words from and including “Subject” in line 19 down to and including line 22 and substitute the following:“Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), a local authority chief executive may not sell, transfer, exchange, surrender or otherwise dispose of any shares vested in the local authority of which he or she is the...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In one a corporate subsidiary is retained, while in the other there is not a separate corporate entity. The Minister said there was not a separate corporate entity, but, if not, what is the difference? The difference is there is a separate entity. The existing separate, commercial corporate entity is retained under the umbrella of the council. I do not know anything about Foynes port in...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but in the specific case of Dún Laoghaire, we propose that this option be taken off the table. We want full integration of the harbour company as a department of the council.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor's question should be directed at the Minister because he has set out two options in his Bill. They are not described in our amendments. The passage of the Bill will mean that it will be in the Minister's gift to make a decision on which of the options will apply to Dún Laoghaire Harbour. The first option is that Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company will...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Under both models, the council will pay. That is what the Minister proposes and the Deputy should ask him who will pay for it, not me. In either case because of what is proposed in the legislation, whatever happens in Dún Laoghaire Harbour will be paid for by the public. It is a disingenuous red herring to suggest that if People Before Profit or Save our Seafront or whichever group...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These amendments specifically relate to Dún Laoghaire Harbour. While the Harbours Bill is an appropriate place to discuss Foynes Port and all the rest of it, the amendments deal with Dún Laoghaire Harbour, not Foynes Port or anywhere else. I agree with the point made about the cost of inflated executive salaries and so on.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the point.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am. In Dún Laoghaire the chief executive receives €136,000 a year, plus approximately €20,000 on top for various extras. The recommended salary for other-----
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle, I have to say-----
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am the only one whom the Ceann Comhairle has reminded of it.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am speaking to the amendments. I do not know why the Ceann Comhairle cuts across me when I am speaking specifically to the amendments.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am speaking specifically to them.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because the Ceann Comhairle spent a minute of that time cutting across me.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It works both ways.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was speaking to them. I was not going off them. The Minister implied in his response that there was no difference between the two options. He said he would not accept my amendments because he had them covered in the Bill, but that implies there are not two options. The reason he has two options is they are different. Perhaps we might discuss the differences.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are discussing amendments Nos. 2, 28 and 29.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So, may I talk to amendment No. 28?
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 29 proposes to insert:“(2) In respect of Dun Laoghaire Harbour, the Minister shall with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, by order provide for—(a) the dissolution without winding up of the company, and (b) the transfer of the company’s harbour to Dun Laoghaire...
- Harbours Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about examples of corporate subsidiaries.