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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: -----but should it always be negative? I cannot recall when I last heard a positive sound come from the Opposition. I am aware the job of Opposition is difficult at any time. In the bad times it was difficult because there was no money in the country so nobody could complain about anything. However, it is no harm to step outside the box, to use the current phrase, and examine the...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

James O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Collins, for sharing time. I join in the congratulations to my colleague the Minster, Deputy Chambers, on his first budget. I do not doubt that it was a difficult task for him and the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, to piece together the budget over recent months. I want to share some of my thoughts and feelings on the budget. There are very obvious...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Gary Gannon: "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." I have never felt those words to be more relevant than when sitting here this week listening to the announcement of the budget and to some of the commentary that came from Government benches in respect of it. I cannot help but feel that we have been here before. This budget reeks of the infamous 2007 budget. The so-called...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Oct 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (3 Oct 2024)

James Lawless: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Transport and Communications pursuant to Standing Orders 95(3)(a) and 181(1).

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Referral to Select Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Debate resumed on the following Financial Resolution: - (Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications)

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Niall Collins: I am sharing time with Deputy James O’Connor. I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the budget, which we were apprised of this week by the Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and Chambers. I congratulate both Ministers on their presentations and in particular, my colleague Deputy Chambers who presented his first budget to the House as Minister for Finance and, indeed, our deputy...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Oct 2024)

James Lawless: I thank Members for their interest in the Bill and for giving their time today and at committee previously. Before I start into the substance of that, I wish to be associated with the good wishes afforded to Deputy Joe Carey by Deputy Mattie McGrath. Deputy Carey chaired the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications for the past number of years. I am sure all of us in this...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am delighted to be able to speak about this Bill. Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le iar-Theachta agus iar-Chathaoirleach coiste Joe Carey. In fairness to him, during his time as committee Chair, he did a lot of work on this legislation. I wish him well with his health and thank him. I also thank Michael Kingston, barrister, who assisted me and members of the...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Oct 2024)

James Browne: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, for bringing forward this very important legislation, the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill, and compliment him on really hitting the ground running since his appointment as Minister of State at the Department of Transport and bringing forward some really important legislation and reform and doing Kildare North very...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Oct 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The ambition of this Bill is to replace the Marine Casualty Investigation Board, a body which was flawed from its inception. The fundamental weakness of the board was the presence on the board of the chief surveyor of the Marine Survey Office and the Secretary General of the Department of Transport, people who by their positions were objectively biased. It is not about the individuals, but...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Accidents) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am conscious the Minister of State is new to this brief, and while he will be aware there is a long history to this whole area, he may not be an expert on it, which is forgivable. Nevertheless, I want to go back over the history that got us here today. It is quite embarrassing, with episode after episode of the failure to implement expert recommendations. The Oireachtas transport and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: We will suspend the meeting for 15 minutes.

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: Apologies have been received from Senator Murphy and Senator Craughwell. We will go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters.

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (3 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: The first item on our agenda are the minutes of the private and public sessions of our meeting on 26 September 2024. They already have been approved in a virtual private meeting but we must do this for procedural reasons. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (3 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: The next item of business is our engagement with petitioner Mr. Frank Moran, regarding petition No. P00058/2024, entitled Flawed Legislation relating to Pensions and Social Security. Before we start, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards references to other persons witnesses may make in their evidence. The evidence of...

Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Pensions and Social Security Legislation (3 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Moran for joining us. It is important that any legislation be designed in a manner that does not infringe on anybody's rights or issues of equality and that it be done in such a way that people do not fall through loopholes, which seems to be a lot of what is going on. Will Mr. Moran bring us back to when he was advised to opt out of the original scheme, as he put it? What were...