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Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: Section 70 provides for the filing of tax returns in respect of capital acquisitions tax by 30 September each year in place of 31 October. The Minister of State will recall that a similar change was proposed for income tax generally but that was reversed in the Dáil deliberations on the Bill. It is an oversight and a flaw in the Bill that the provision was not similarly reversed for...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: The Minister of State gave an explanation of what is in the Bill, which is helpful, but it is no more than an explanation. He has given no argument as to why the correction I propose could not be accepted. A policy of consistency was instituted last year which provided that the filing of returns in respect of capital acquisitions tax be brought in line with other self-assessment taxes. The...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (26 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: I thank the Minister for his elaboration on the Bill and comprehensive responses to all of the questions raised. This legislation ties in with the judgment in the Dillon case, in which Mr. Justice de Valera said nothing in the judgment should constrain or prevent legislation being passed to control the location, time, date, duration and manner in which begging may take place. The...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2010: Second Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: I welcome the new Minister for Justice and Law Reform, Deputy Smith, and thank him for his exposé on the Bill. As he indicated, it is a response to the High Court judgment in the Dillon v. DPP case of 2007, which itself very much relied on a New York city court judgment, Young v. New York City Transit Authority where it was found that to have a blanket ban on begging interfered with the...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2010: Second Stage (26 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: I apologise for interrupting the Senator, but we do not want the Minister to be late for the division in the Dáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: Senators on the Government side have been bleating about the difficulties they are experiencing this week. I refer to the collapse of the Government and the issues that arise therefrom. The reality is that the Government collapsed a long time ago. However, the Fianna Fáil Party and the Taoiseach, Deputy Cowen, have been in denial about that fact. When the Green Party pulled the plug last...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: Those on the Government benches must just simply get over what has happened.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: In view of the urgent need to hold a general election, consensus was reached on the procedure relating to the adoption of the Finance Bill. Those on the opposite side of the House have sought such a consensus for some time. We are in something of a political vacuum because we do not know if the Dáil will pass Second Stage of the Bill. The urgent need for a change of Government cannot be...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: ——on the national monument at Moore Street and the 1916 Rising. The EU-IMF deal represents, on the part of the current Government, the biggest sell-out in this country's history. The Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance have continually stated there can be no renegotiation of the terms of the bailout. We now know that a new Government, led by Fine Gael — in the best tradition of...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: A national monument, perhaps.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: We have.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: We have had calls from Government Members since this Seanad commenced for agreements on progressing legislation. They have agreement this week; they have got what they wanted. There is agreement on passing one Bill. It is not an enormous Bill and we have passed lengthier legislation in a week. This Government has been adept at adopting emergency legislation and guillotining Bills. There...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: The question is coming.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: The real problem is Fianna Fáil being at joined the hip with this State and believing it is all about Fianna Fáil and the interests of the country are about Fianna Fáil. We have had to wait for Taoiseach after Taoiseach to resign and the present Taoiseach has been hanging on and suggesting we cannot have an election before a certain date.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: We have called that bluff. We have been misled and the Green Party has been misled over the past number of months that the Finance Bill could not have been passed before Christmas. We have called the Government's bluff in the national interest.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: Does the Leader agree?

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: I thank the Minister of State. I am not sure what he is Minister of State for, but I thank him for being present.

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: I thank him for his very complete responses on all the amendments tabled. I welcome the Bill and agree with its provisions. We are implementing EU law which provides a framework for many of the measures for combating crime. This Bill is one of the key instruments in the interception and retention of data. It is a means of detecting some of the most serious forms of crime. I agree...

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: We were wondering about the Minister of State's title.

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Jan 2011)

Eugene Regan: I dissent from the position adopted on this side of the House. In the interests of law enforcement there must be a reasonable period for the retention of this type of data and the period specified in the Bill is reasonable. It is not just an issue of combating organised crime, which is the most serious type, but also cyber-crime. The EU emissions trading system could be brought down by...