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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Transport Infrastructure Provision (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I move amendment No. 1:In page 6, lines 6 and 7, to delete “may, in its discretion” and substitute “shall”. There have been parliamentary debates for years on the difference between "shall" and "may". Our intention is to ensure there is an obligation on the judicial system to sanction in some way persons who do not co-operate with the system. While I accept the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I asked a question in the Dáil earlier about the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy's, proposals to bring forward next year a constitutional referendum to allow for a cap on awards. It gives an indication that this Government is not always in favour of the autonomy and independence of the Judiciary. I am not trying to hamstring the Judiciary into having to do something but rather ensure...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: From what I can remember of the first reading of the Bill, the book of quantum was to be reviewed every five years, but this has been amended to a review every three years.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: In the context of discussions arising from parliamentary questions, we raised the possibility of comparing awards with those made in other common law countries. We were told at the time that the awards made in Ireland could not be compared with those made in other countries. I would like an explanation as to why we cannot benchmark the awards made in Ireland across the norms. We benchmark...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Would it not be up to Parliament?

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: We may need to revisit this matter on Report Stage. I have not tabled an amendment but I would like to get some clarity. While our concerns do not apply to the current Minister, a future Minister may not be as supportive of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board as the current Minister. Similarly, a future Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform may not be supportive of PIAB. From my...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Transport Infrastructure Provision (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, to the House to hear what I have to say. I will make it brief and to the point. We need to have ambition and vision for the greater metropolitan area of Cork. We now have a situation where the south link road is effectively at capacity with about 87,000 vehicles using that stretch of road every day. About 70,000 cars...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: There are leaks from Cabinet every day.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Hear, hear.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Nothing.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 56. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to publish an account of the investigative failures identified by a person (details supplied); the steps being taken to address them emanating from the trial of a person; and the action points committed to in the report, Measures to Enhance Ireland's Corporate, Economic and Regulatory Framework, published in November 2017....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Since I tabled the question, which asks the Minister what her plans are to publish an account of the investigative failures in a specific case, a synopsis of the report produced by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, has been published. This is not sufficient. Judge Aylmer's report into the collapsed trials provides clear evidence of the failures of the ODCE. A...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: This Parliament is being held in contempt. Rather than publishing the report, the Government is providing an account of a report that was commissioned to assess the reasons the longest criminal trial in the history of the State collapsed. All we know is that Judge Aylmer highlighted several inadequacies. On foot of that report, we commissioned from the Office of the Director of Corporate...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: One does not have to travel far to see the fallout from the collapse of the banking sector. Week in and week out, one can see people being hauled before the repossession courts because they are unable to keep up mortgage repayments. Sometimes they lose their home and, tragically, some of them even lose their lives. At the same time, the longest criminal trial in the history of the State...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: If the Minister gives it to me, I will publish it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: She should publish the advice in that case.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: The Minister will do nothing.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Costs (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: We have discussed this issue for a long time. I am not questioning the Minister's bona fides, but the reality is that the pace of progress is lethargic. We only have to look at the Judicial Council Bill 2017 which was only recently sent to the Seanad. It is a key recommendation and an important component. We have been talking about the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017 for the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Insurance Costs (4 Dec 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 54. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to reduce the excessive sums awarded for whiplash compensation claims in view of the latest data published by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB. [50768/18]