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Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 235:In page 104, line 30, to delete “14 days” and substitute “28 days”.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister. If that were possible, I would second what the Minister has said.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: It is an appeal period. I support the Minister.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 236:In page 109, line 33, to delete "than 15 per cent lower".

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 237:In page 109, line 35, after "adjudication" to insert the following:"provided that no client shall be responsible for costs incurred by the practitioner where the said practitioner has not disclosed the legal costs that will be incurred in relation to the matter concerned irrespective of whether the said practitioner has set out the basis on which the legal costs are...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 238:In page 110, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:"(5) A legal practitioner who does not comply with section 122(1) shall not be entitled to recover from the client any legal costs in relation to the matter concerned.".

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 242:In page 116, to delete lines 11 and 12. The term "senior counsel" is a term we acknowledge in law and it refers to members of the inner Bar. Under the legislation, a solicitor can be called senior counsel. While I am not particularly enamoured of titles, it meant something in the past which it will not in future, given that it will be extended to somebody who,...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister. I was hoping people could approach a barrister without having a solicitor present. I appreciate the Minister's point, and withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: Having reached amendment No. 279, I note that since amendment No. 244, we have dealt with more than 14 pages of amendments. We have made 36 amendments. This is the same as the page 41 issue we had last night. Page 120 should have been reprinted for this Stage of the discussion. It is unrecognisable from page 120 in the Bill.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 283:In page 124, line 35, after "may" to insert "not". Amendment No. 283 expresses concern about the fact the authority can waive educational qualifications by regulation. The Bill states people may be exempted from additional requirements to attend a course of education or training, sit and pass an examination or serve a period of apprenticeship or pupilage. If...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Minister and the Senator for their responses. There should be no dumbing down of standards, and exemptions should be granted extremely parsimoniously.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: This is the point I am trying to make. In all of our colleges most people take their courses and pass examinations, and I would not support the thought of any mass exemption.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: In Paris, yesterday, the Taoiseach promised new legislation in the current Dáil session to tackle climate change. I suggest that the legislation start in this House in view of the fine debate we had recently on climate change. If the Taoiseach brought the Bill to this House, it would be an improvement in the context of tackling the climate change issue. I compliment the organisers of...

Seanad: Motor Vehicles (Duties and Licences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (1 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and the Bill she has brought before us. The judgment was that articulated goods vehicles fall to be taxed at the non-agricultural tractor rate of €333 annually. That might have been how our learned lordships interpreted the law, but the economics of it are that articulated vehicles use lots of roads. They have a high PCU value, whereby...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for accepting my amendment No. 54. We have compulsory insurance to drive a car. I agree with the Minister that indemnity insurance in this case seems eminently sensible. That is the reason for the word "shall". The new authority should draw up the regulations to implement that. Again, I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I move amendment No. 54:In page 39, line 26, to delete “may” and substitute “shall”.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: What will be the effect of inserting "the opinion of the Law Society"? There are 105 amendments on pages 8 to 28 of the amendments list which all relate to page 41 of the Bill. This is confusing.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: Amendment No. 66 seeks to insert "the opinion of the Law Society". It refers to page 41, subsection (5)(a). I cannot find subsection (5)(a) in the Bill. I do not know where the opinion of the Law Society is to be inserted.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: I cannot see where the opinion of the Law Society would fit in. Section 42 is quite a short section. It is extremely confusing.

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)

Sean Barrett: The amendment reads: "In page 41, in subsection (5) of the section 48 inserted by amendment 58 at Committee Stage in the Seanad, to insert “, in accordance with section 49,” after “shall”. In section 48 there are six uses of the word "shall". Therefore, we should have the legislation printed up again incorporating all those amendments because it is very difficult...