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Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Sinn Féin opposes the section. Section 12 places an obligation on employers to comply with attachment orders. Under the section, employers have to smash the relationships they have had with employees and collect the money. Otherwise, the courts will fine them. Not satisfied with burdening employers with the role of debt collector, the Government is stipulating employers will have to...

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I thank the Minister of State for his response but it does not give me much succour and it will not give many employees much succour. We must look at the context in which we are working. In recent years we have had a number of high-profile industrial relations disputes involving workers in a number of companies in the State, particularly those in lower paid jobs and on zero-hours contracts...

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Sinn Féin opposes this section in line with our opposition to the Bill itself.

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Sinn Féin opposes this section in line with our opposition to the Bill itself.

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Sinn Féin opposes this section in line with our opposition to the Bill itself.

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Section 16 provides for the deduction of civil debt from a person's welfare payments. This is the most Thatcherite provision in the Bill. We are talking about the most vulnerable in our society - pensioners, the sick, the disabled and the unemployed. It is particularly difficult for young people looking for their first employment or older workers who are made redundant through no fault of...

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Sinn Féin opposes this section in line with our opposition to the Bill itself.

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Section 20 deals with the provision of a variation order. This, again, has been hailed as a safeguard by the Government. This is not a safeguard and it is definitely not an appeals mechanism, as some have suggested. Another major flaw with the Bill is the lack of an appeals mechanism. Sometimes courts can get it very wrong. An attachment of earnings or the so-called protected earnings...

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The section deals with the provision of a variation order. The Government has hailed this as a safeguard. It is not a safeguard and it is definitely not an appeals mechanism. As I have said, another major flaw of the Bill is the lack of an appeals mechanism given that the courts can get it wrong. Of the 27 sections in the Bill, there is only one section of merit, namely, section 26, which...

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We oppose the section in line with our opposition to the Bill. Of the 27 sections, only two sections are of merit, namely sections 25 and 26, which make necessary technical amendments. We agree with the Law Reform Commission's recommendations to provide for the abolition of the imprisonment of debtors except in the case of maintenance arising from family law, which is in line with...

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, lines 5 to 7, to delete all words from and including “to” where it firstly occurs in line 5 down to and including “circumstances;” in line 7. The amendment is a necessary technical amendment in line with our overall opposition to the Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Ba mhaith liom thar ceann mhuintir Shinn Féin anseo sa Seanad comhbhrón a dhéanamh tar éis bhás an iar-Bhall den Teach seo, Alexis Fitzgerald, lena chlann, lena mhuintir agus lena chairde. I echo the sentiments on the passing of former Senator and Deputy, Alexis Fitzgerald, and pass on our condolences to his family and friends as well. I concur with Senator...

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Deirtear i nGaeilge "cuir síoda ar ghabhar agus is gabhar i gcónaí é". Is léir go bhfuil síoda á chur ar an ngabhar áirithe seo ó thaobh an Bhille atá os ár gcomhair. Cuireadh an mír a bhaineann le deireadh a chur le daoine a chur i bpríosún ar bhunús nach bhfuil a gcuid...

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That is what they are.

Seanad: Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It was very well-chosen.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cé go bhfuil na Teachtaí Dála ag fáil faoi réir le dhul ar a gcuid laethanta saoire, tá ábhar gur ceart dúinne déileáil leis sular mbíonn briseadh againne. The Deputies may be getting ready to pack up and go off on their holidays but an issue has come to the fore which the Seanad might be able to deal with. So far, 512 women have signed...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Not if the Labour Party is dealing with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Senator should talk to her own Minister.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Deir siad sa nGaeilge "Meileann muilte Dé go mall ach meileann siad go mion" agus níl aon dabht faoi ó thaobh an réiteach atá ag an Rialtas seo ar fhadhbanna na morgáistí go bhfuil na muilte ag meilt go mall ach i ndáiríre ó thaobh lucht na baincéireachta de agus an brú atá siadsan ag cur ar lucht na morgáistí, tá...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 2: In page 31, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“(d) the insertion of the following subsection after subsection 3:“(3A) That the applicant has a contract with a licensed operator for the delivery and safe disposal of collected waste.”.”.This amendment seeks to ensure persons or companies seeking a waste collection licence have...