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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-02-03/8/
3 Feb 2010 - Arbitration Bill 2008: Report Stage.
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women's Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2009-04-23/2/
23 Apr 2009 - Arbitration Bill 2008: Committee Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-11-19/25/
19 Nov 2008 - Arbitration Bill 2008: Second Stage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-02-11/3/
11 Feb 2010 - Arbitration Bill 2008: Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-02-03/7/
3 Feb 2010 - Arbitration Bill 2008: Order for Report.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-11-20/5/
20 Nov 2008 - Arbitration Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-11-19/24/
19 Nov 2008 - Arbitration Bill 2008: Order for Second Stage.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-02-24/7/
24 Feb 2010 - Arbitration Bill 2008: Committee and Remaining Stages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-11-20/6/
20 Nov 2008 - Arbitration Bill 2008: Referral to Select Committee.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-02-11/3/
11 Feb 2010 - Senator Eugene Regan I thank the Minister for outlining this new Arbitration Bill, which is an effort...At the arbitration seminar in October 2008, which the Minister of State referred to, the Attorney General...Enactment of this Bill should be welcomed....The key point in the Bill concerns the distinction between domestic and international arbitration which...I welcome the Bill. I do not have any difficulties with it.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-02-03/8/
3 Feb 2010 - It states: An amendment proposed at Committee Stage would have granted such immunity to arbitrators...and arbitral institutions, specifically in the absence of bad faith....As the Bill enters Report Stage, the immunity provision has been retained, although, curiously, it has...Section 22(1) of the 2008 Bill now declares baldly that an arbitrator "shall not be liable in any proceedings...the arbitrator.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-02-11/3/
11 Feb 2010 - Bill 2008....It is approximately 12 years since the last Arbitration Bill was enacted....regime and on those sections that have been amended since the Bill was first published in June 2008....The first concerns the meaning of the word "arbitration" as used in the Bill....The 50th anniversary of the convention was in 2008, the year in which this Bill was published, and Dublin
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women's Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2009-04-23/2/
23 Apr 2009 - Chairman This meeting has been convened for the purpose of the consideration by this committee of the Arbitration...Bill 2008....Before we begin, I seek members' agreement as to how the select committee will dispose of this Bill....I propose that we consider the Bill until 1 p.m., at which time we can adjourn and arrange to reconvene
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-02-03/8/
3 Feb 2010 - it is critical to have a clear statutory statement on the position of the arbitrator....It is quite clear where the arbitrator stands in his or her position as arbitrator...., which is the arbitration body attached to the International Chamber of Commerce....Its rules of arbitration provide for a general exclusion of liability whereby the arbitrators, the court...In 2008 alone, more than 650 requests for arbitration were filed with that court.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-02-03/8/
3 Feb 2010 - Immunity is required if the arbitral process is to function properly and if arbitrators are not to be...Arbitration is intended to provide a final decision in relation to disputes and claims against arbitrators...The Bill contains safeguards designed to provide remedies for parties where serious irregularities attach...to the arbitral process....The Bill as currently drafted adheres to the best international practice laid down by the ICC.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2010-02-11/3/
11 Feb 2010 - Senator McDonald commented that the Bill has had a long period of gestation, having originated in 2008...I wish to raise a number of concerns about the Bill....This offers a useful insight into the views of practitioners on the Arbitration Bill....as envisaged in this Bill....I examined the Law Reform Commission consultation paper on alternative dispute resolution from July 2008
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-11-19/25/
19 Nov 2008 - The Bill is a welcome development to ensure arbitration will continue to grow as an alternative to court...A number of proposals in the Bill will improve our existing arbitration law....in the Bill....The provisions in the Bill, by and large, will succeed in doing this....2008 conference at the beginning June.
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women's Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2009-04-23/2/
23 Apr 2009 - One of the most reputable arbitration bodies in the world is the International Court of Arbitration,...our statutory regime with that of bodies such as the ICC and it would be a wasted opportunity if the Bill...the arbitrator....The Bill contains safeguards designed to provide remedies for parties where serious irregularity is attached...to the arbitration process.
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women's Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2009-04-23/2/
23 Apr 2009 - .—(1) This Act shall not apply to an arbitration under an arbitration agreement concerning an international...commercial arbitration or a standard arbitration which has commenced before the operative date but shall...The Bill, as drafted, would, as a general rule, have resulted in its provisions being applied only to...Acts would not affect future arbitral proceedings....Clearly, this was not the intention, given the fact that, by virtue of the new section 3, the Bill is
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-11-19/25/
19 Nov 2008 - Deputy Pat Rabbitte I welcome the taking of Second Stage of the Arbitration Bill 2008....The Arbitration Bill 2008, the first comprehensive review of arbitral legislation in this country since...I am aware that the Irish branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators has welcomed the Bill in general...I have referred to the sections of the Bill which deal with consumer arbitrations....system" and records the view of the British Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, who said in May 2008
