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Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank members and witnesses for participating in the meeting. We have not received any apologies. Today's meeting has been convened to consider the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024, which was referred to the select committee by order of the Dáil on 25 September 2024. The purpose of the Bill is to provide for the conduct of, and...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: We will go through the Bill section by section. Members who want to speak on any section should indicate.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State for his kind words directed towards Deputies, particularly towards our two colleagues who are definitely leaving. I am not sure whether the other three of us will be back. I also thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending today's meeting. I look forward to the Bill being enacted and implemented as soon as possible.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its consideration of the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024 and has made no amendments thereto.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business of Select Committee (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: The imeachtaí of the committee's meeting of 22 May have been circulated. Do members have any comments on them? Are they agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Good morning. Anyone participating remotely must do so from within the Leinster House complex. We have not received any apologies. Today's discussion is on the draft statutory instrument entitled Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024. The protocol relates to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks. This is an international agreement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank the Minister of State. Do members wish to contribute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: Do you have a question Deputy Bruton?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: I thank members for their co-operation and thank the Minister of State and her officials for assisting the committee in its consideration of this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: In accordance with Standing Order 95, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its consideration of the following Order in draft: Trade Marks (Madrid Protocol) (Amendment) Regulations 2024, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 16 September 2024. In accordance with Standing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: Was the meeting with Royal BAM the first in-person meeting involving the board and the Minister with the higher echelons of the company in the lifetime of this project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: Had other members of the board ever met the chief executive of Royal BAM?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: At that meeting, was Royal BAM in any way contrite about the ongoing issues? Did it say that mistakes were made with the logistics of this project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: Did Royal BAM give any commitment about the contribution from its side to the extra costs of this project from where it was initially a number of years ago to where it is now? The people who have to pay it are the taxpayers of this country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: Does Royal BAM accept that it is an extraordinary amount from where this project started to where it is at the moment? It is multiples of what the cost was going to be five or six years ago to where it is now. Does it accept that this is an extraordinary amount that the State has to pay, for what is an impressive structure, by the way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: How confident is the Minister that it will be completed by June of next year? How confident was he before the meeting and what is his analysis afterwards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: What did BAM say at that meeting that gives the Minister more confidence that it will complete this project by June 2025? The board was before the Joint Committee on Health a number of weeks ago and it was aghast and extremely frustrated about where the project was going. Considering that critique, this project might take much longer than to June 2025. What commitment did BAM give about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: Why is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: Has BAM said to the board it would commit to that work engagement, in terms of workers on site, etc? It was obvious from the board's critique that there are just not enough workers from BAM on site. None of the rooms have been signed over, which is not a great sign in terms of a structure like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: Again, getting back to the commitments, what exact commitments did BAM give? It is an enormous and very profitable company. What did it say in terms of doing X, Y and Z to get the job finished by June 2025? What did it say to the Minister and board regarding what it is going to do?