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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: I am delighted with the way Mr. Boylan spoke about Brexit. It is a concern for all of us, not just in the Border area but nationally. We can see how serious it is when we have people in the Department working to ensure we do what we can, from the point of view of the Irish diaspora in the United Kingdom, to ensure something like this does not happen because of the negative impact it would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: County Kildare has the two major motorways but the tourists go through the county to go somewhere else. We are working hard to suck them in by a variety of initiatives, whether around racing, the national stud or other attractions. We do not have the battlefield sites although the battle of 1798 did start in the village of Johnstown.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: We also have to look at alternative ways to drag people in. I have always believed there are people going by on your doorstep and if one cannot pull them in there is something wrong. That is my view.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (7 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance given the analysis being carried out by a company (details supplied) on the possible sale of Allied Irish Banks shares, depending on the advice received, if it is envisaged that this money will be used to reduce the national debt or if it will be invested in capital projects; if a cost-benefit analysis and an analysis of the economic benefits of investing...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (7 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 534. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the revised planning guidelines for wind development will be published; the reason for the excessive delay; if he will commit to the publication of the revised guidelines before the summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27121/15]

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: Does Sinn Féin have the IRA back again?

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: Sorry.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: He spoke to me directly.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: The legislation covers people who-----

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the opportunity to speak about this Bill. For those involved in small businesses, it is a welcome addition to the legislative programme. It provides an opportunity for those small businesses that have been wrongfully done and not received payments. Instead of sending debtors to prison, there will be an opportunity to make attachment orders to the some income they may have. It...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: I am only saying what I saw.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: I am sorry. As one who was stopped and abused leaving Leinster House on Wednesday evening, it is only right and proper that I should say something about what occurred.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: It could easily have been orchestrated by people from Sinn Féin–IRA. We need to look at it in that way.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: Sinn Féin-IRA might have a different way of attaching a collection of debt order. I will not mention it now.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: Most certainly Sinn Féin-IRA did that in the North of Ireland and places in Dublin before. This is an easy legal way to attach debt to the income of people who refuse to pay. It is unfair that a landlord has to pay a debt when a tenant does not pay it. We must ensure the courts will follow the tenant rather than the landlord. For several years landlords have had a variety of...

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: I am glad that is the case. Seven out of ten people have signed up to Irish Water and are willing to pay their bills. We owe it to these law-abiding citizens who do pay to make sure those who will not, even though they have the ability to pay, are dealt with.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: Fine Gael was the State’s first Government. Sinn Féin, of course, was not around then.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: The Greek Government is Sinn Féin’s friend.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: Boot-boys. Sinn Féin had them outside Leinster House on Wednesday night.

Civil Debt (Procedures) Bill 2015: Second Stage (3 Jul 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: We do not use the sticks Sinn Féin uses.