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- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I very much welcome this Bill which seeks to ensure that everyone, regardless of where they live, has a reasonable level of access to cash. This legislation was proposed by the retail banking review in 2022. We in the Social Democrats fully support the implementation of this recommendation. There is no doubt that cash usage has declined rapidly in the last decade, particularly during the...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Robert Troy: With the permission of the House, I am sharing my speaking time with Deputy James O'Connor. I welcome and support this Bill. I compliment the former Minister, Michael McGrath, who worked on it initially, and the Minister, Deputy Chambers, for bringing it forward and ensuring there will be sufficient and effective access to cash in future in this State. Without Government intervention, it...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: The Labour Party welcomes the Bill. Much of what it contains aligns with the comprehensive submission we made in reference to access to cash in the context of the banking review a couple of years ago. We are happy to support the Bill and its principles. There are elements that we are concerned about and that we will tease these out on Committee Stage, but the premise of the Bill is sound....
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Unfortunately, the Deputy will not be passing over to Deputy Doherty. Not for the first time this week, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is facing me. I will possibly be asking her to bring certain issues directly to the attention of the Minister.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: On this topic.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Definitely on this topic. I would not dream of going off on a tangent in any way, shape or form. That would be unheard of.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Gerald Nash: We want a happy Minister of State.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: While I have the Minister of State here, it would be wrong not to raise a particular issue. In fairness, it is an incredibly important one. We have all heard about the major concerns. Even in recent weeks, people have raised those concerns with us. One lady contacted me about her dad. There was some element of confusion at a senior football match in the Dundalk area. As he was not au...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Aontaím leis an méid atá ráite ag an Teachta Ó Murchú ó thaobh na ATMs seo agus an chaoi nach bhfuil seirbhís trí Ghaeilge á cur ar fáil. Ba chóir go mbeidh gá seirbhís trí Ghaeilge a chur ar fáil. Tá a fhios againn gur féidir é seo a dhéanamh. Rinneadh é roimhe seo. Tá a fhios...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat. Anois, Sinn Féin. There are three speakers in this slot.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: Deputy Doherty is not here just yet.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I will leave the Deputies share time whatever way they wish.
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Martin Kenny: We will share the time as we go along. I appreciate that. I thank the Minister for his opening statement. Access to cash and the right of people to use cash is vital. That is the nub of this. People have a right to use cash as well as to access it. Since Covid and even before that, people have spoken of restrictions on the use of cash. People used cards more and more during that...
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
- Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Jack Chambers: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The Department of Finance's retail banking review, published in November 2022, concluded that despite a decline in its usage, cash remains an important element of the payments system and the broader economy and that it is essential that cash remains readily available to customers through ATMs and other means across the country. The...
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is the Bill opposed?
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Emer Higgins: It is not opposed.
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Question put and agreed to.
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.
- Animal Sentience Bill 2024: First Stage (26 Sep 2024)
Paul Murphy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."