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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: We cannot put it through now because there is no amendment. Obviously, it is open to Deputy Mythen to put forward that amendment.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes, provided it has been discussed. Now that the Deputy has raised the matter, that gives him the platform to table an amendment. We will certainly consider the points he has made in advance of that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 10 amends the Agriculture Appeals Act 2001 by expanding the existing right of appeal to the High Court on decisions of appeals officers to also include decisions of the agriculture appeals review panel on a question of law. It also provides that the director of agriculture appeals shall be named as respondent to any appeal to the High Court in respect of the decision of an appeals...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 11 amends section 14 of the 2001 Act by providing additional reporting obligations on the director of agriculture appeals to include the activities of the agriculture appeals review panel. This places an obligation on the director to report on the activities of the review panel. It is straightforward.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 12 provides mandatory obligations on the chair, deputy chair and members of the appeals review panel and the forestry appeals committee in respect of the disclosure of confidential information, providing for criminal offences where these obligations are breached. It means the chair, deputy chair and members of the committee must make full disclosure on anything that is relevant.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 13 amends the 2001 Act by providing the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with the power to make regulations in relation to oral hearings and the provision of information, and the practice and procedures applicable to the functioning of the agriculture appeals review panel. The section gives the Minister the power to make regulations on how the review panel would operate...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: There is no limit on the number.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Obviously, regulations would be set in compliance with the legislation. Basically, if there are other rules and regulations needed as to how a hearing can be conducted or managed, they would be fleshed out.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes. That would be in the original schemes, so people would appeal on that basis, yes. It is simple housekeeping stuff.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 14 inserts Schedule 3 after Schedule 2, providing for the composition and appointment of the chair and members of the agriculture appeals review panel, including the appointment of deputy chairpersons, the tenure of the members, provisions regarding their resignation, dismissal, remuneration and allowances, and terms and conditions of office. It also provides requirements for the...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes, that is in the legislation.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: We discussed the last day whether farm organisations should have definitive nominating powers. We felt that it was better to leave this more open but that two appointees had to be people who had those competencies. That was a much more straightforward of doing it.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 15 provides for the transitional arrangements after the commencement of section 9 of the Bill, permitting requests for reviews of decisions of appeals officers to the agriculture appeals review panel. It specifically provides for arrangements relating to decisions and appeals in existence before the commencement of section 9, and allows for the review of those pre-existing decisions...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: Section 16, which is Part 3, amends section 24 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1997 by removing the requirement that the chair and members of the Aquaculture Licenses Appeals Board vacate their office on attaining the age of 70 years. Basically, it means that somebody over 70 years can be a member of the appeals board, which I think is absolutely fair.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Appeals (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank members for the assessment the committee did in advance and its pre-legislative report, which we sought to accommodate as best possible. I look forward to trying to bring this legislation through the Dáil and Seanad over the next period.

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

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Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: I assure Deputies Collins and McGrath-----

Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: -----it is a Government Department.