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Seanad: Sustainable Tourism: Statements (16 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: We will see the Minister of State in Strokestown next week.

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Bruton, to the House and commend Senator Freeman on bringing this Bill forward. I think we are all singing from the one hymn sheet in this particular regard, although my hymn will be sung before the Minister's because we intend to publish a Bill in the coming days to legislate for the establishment of a digital safety commissioner. That will happen very...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: I just want to put on record that we support the Bill; we are for it. We will publish our Bill in the coming days and I hope the Government will back it. I hope that, in light of all the Bills proposed, we get measures in this regard on the Statute Book as quickly as possible and before the general election.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the delegation, which has a serious job to do. The way we operate European Union regulations is way above and beyond anything else in Europe. It is unreal. I do not know who is pushing it but the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is unreal. It checks and measures every section of the land. My son has a farm which has an area beside a river which had to be cut...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Court of Auditors Annual Report: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: That is my experience.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: What about the barracks in Cavan?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: I second the proposal by Senator Billy Lawless.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: Was it Senator Craughwell?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: Senator Gerard Craughwell esquire.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: I was misinformed but that is okay, the principle is right.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: Absolutely. I want the Minister responsible, the Taoiseach-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: -----or the Minister of State, Deputy Kehoe, to come into the House.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: Is the Leader quite happy now? Is this question time or a quiz?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: I thank the Cathaoirleach but I was being distracted. I do not have to answer to the Leader.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: I will answer to the Cathaoirleach but not to the Leader.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: I second the welcome to the former Senator, Maurice Cummins, a former Leader of the House, and a man who is partly responsible for us being here today. He was a very courageous Leader of the House and a very courageous Senator. I make a request to all the Brexit negotiators that there should be a blackout on the rolling 24-hour news about who said what, when and where and how it is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: I do not particularly want to be out there. My point is that I would prefer it if the public had a right to see these artworks in the National Gallery instead of them being stuck out in RTÉ where nobody can see them. They are now going to Sotheby's in London, a British company, to be sold instead going to Irish companies. It is outrageous. RTÉ is losing its way. I am member of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: Do not blame me.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: First, I welcome to the Public Gallery Mr. Maurice Quinn, Secretary General of the Department of Defence, his mother, Ms Quinn, and family and friends who are on a private visit to Leinster House to see the work that has been completed. On a point of clarification, I mentioned yesterday the situation regarding the Post Office Savings Bank and the accounts of people throughout the country who...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2019)

Terry Leyden: Yes, indeed.