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Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion. (4 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders or in the Resolution of the Dáil of 6 June, 2002, setting out the rota in which questions to members of the Government are to be asked, or in the Resolution of the Dáil of 27 April, 2004, questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, trade and Employment, shall be set down to...

Council Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems: Referral to Joint Committee. (25 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approve the exercise by the State of the option or discretion provided by Article 1.11 of the Treaty of Amsterdam to take part in the adoption of the following proposed measure: a proposal for a Council Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems, a copy of which proposed measure was laid before Dáil Éireann on 24 May 2004, be...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion. (25 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: : I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the resolution of the Dáil of 6 June 2002, setting out the rota in which questions to members of the Government are to be asked, questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Defence Tánaiste and Minister for...

Written Answers — Fishery Production: Fishery Production (25 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: The most recent CSO estimates of fishery production, which are largely based on data supplied by the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, are in respect of 2002. The figures for the years 1998 to 2002 are set out in the following two tables. Table 1. Fish Production (value: million euro). Year Sea landings Aquaculture Inland Total Production 1998 192.3 77.2...

Written Answers — Agricultural Output: Agricultural Output (25 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: The information requested by the Deputy is shown in the following table: Year Index of volume of agricultural output (Base 1995=100) Value of agricultural output (euro million) 1998 102.7 4,662.0 1999 103.5 4,602.5 2000 101.6 4,764.0 2001 104.0 4,963.0 2002 98.9 4,581.7 2003(p) 103.6 4,730.6 (p) Preliminary. The figures relate to agricultural output at farm-gate...

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: As Members will be aware, this House will be asked shortly to initiate a process to deal with a matter of the highest national importance. I refer to the solemn responsibility placed by the Constitution on Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann on the possibility of the removal of a judge from office in accordance with Article 35.4 of the Constitution. It is proposed that motions to initiate that...

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Second Stage. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: I thank the Senators for their welcome contributions and for their non-opposition, as it was phrased in the Dáil, to the passing of the legislation. Two important issues have been raised. One deals specifically with the process in respect of the specific case and the other deals with the legislation. The Constitution gives power to the Oireachtas for the removal of a judge. Equally, the...

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: Section 12 of the Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) Act 1997 states: A statement or admission made by a person before a committee, or a document given or sent by a person to a committee pursuant to a direction of the committee to the person or specified in an affidavit of documents made by a person and given to a committee by...

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: It will be the nature of the process that the committee will be able to guard as much information as possible. Crucial to that will be the need to have a fair procedure and provide for due process to enable the person who is the subject of the investigation to come before it to give evidence which could be used in the person's favour. One must not assume that anything the person would say...

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: No, we are giving the committee power to compel, which it may not even have to use if, as Deputy Brian Hayes stated, the person appears before it voluntarily.

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: The House in its process would have the right to get the facts from any person who would have those facts. The subject of the investigation would be one such person. I understand the powers of compulsion appear elsewhere in the Statute Book, for example, under the Companies Acts and, therefore, we could not presume that one is talking about incrimination when somebody just gives information,...

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: In the absence of procedures, due process is the one thing we must ensure. Anybody who is the subject of such a matter would be entitled to know the rules that govern the procedure. It would be wrong to commence a process and then dip in and out to change it as people go along. It may happen as we go along that there may be other issues but, if we can foresee things that will enable us to put...

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: It does under the principal Act. It could compel him to answer questions. A judge could not come in and sit there.

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: I refer again to Senator McDowell's question. Section 3 of the Act refers to the provision to direct in writing any person to give evidence and to produce documentation. With regard to Senator Walsh's question, that should be dealt with by the committee itself or through its terms of reference or Standing Orders.

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: This is an enabling power, which the committee does not have to use. Equally, the section to which I referred grants an enabling power. It states a committee may direct in writing any person to give evidence and to produce documentation. The committee may well decide not to invoke the power to compel somebody to attend at all or, having compelled somebody to attend, not to invoke the power to...

Seanad: Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Compellability, Privileges and Immunities of Witnesses) (Amendment) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages. (27 May 2004)

Mary Hanafin: I understand it will be tomorrow.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion. (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Hanafin: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Resolution of the Dáil of 6 June 2002, setting out the rota in which questions to members of the Government are to be asked, questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence: Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources...

Congress of the Universal Postal Union: Motion. (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Hanafin: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approve the terms of certain acts of the 1999 Congress of the Universal Postal Union, signed at Beijing on 15 September 1999, namely: —the Sixth Additional Protocol to the Constitution of the Universal Postal Union; —the General Regulations of the Universal Postal Union; —the Universal Postal Convention and the Final Protocol thereto; and...

Written Answers — EU Trade: EU Trade (1 Jun 2004)

Mary Hanafin: Intrastat is the system used for collecting statistics on the physical trade in goods, that is, the actual movement of goods, between member states of the EU. It has two distinct components — specific information captured as part of the VAT system and a survey known as Intrastat. Under the VAT system, all registered traders must complete boxes E, exports, and E2, imports, on their periodic...

International Agreements: Motion. (17 Jun 2004)

Mary Hanafin: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the amendments, agreed at Washington DC on 17 November 2000 by the Twenty-fifth (Extraordinary) Assembly of Parties of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation, to the agreement establishing the International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation, adopted in 1971, copies of which (including the amendments) were laid before Dáil...