Results 7,381-7,400 of 12,886 for speaker:Paul Coghlan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Of course. I only want a minute. I will share with Deputies Regina Doherty and O'Donnell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I welcome Bank of Ireland's good news story. It is appropriate that we are hearing from the bank at this time. The delegation's comments on the economy are welcome and corroborate what we are being told by the Minister for Finance and others. I am delighted that the bank's rate of new lending is on target and that it is providing one in three new mortgages. It has refunded the taxpayer...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I accept that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: It should be strengthened.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: No one wants to see Irish Water sold and I take on board many of the points made by Senator O'Brien. There is existing legislation and many issues to be examined. I am not stating the Senator is right or wrong. I do not think any of us can at this point be definitive, but I do not think we should rush into it. Senator Norris made a point on this being a reflective Chamber. On this issue...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I am not procrastinating, but I am opposed to rushing into anything.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: What Senator Cullinane thinks might be clarity today might not be tomorrow, with respect.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Senator Cullinane should look at what his leader said at the beginning and what he is saying now. We are all in solidarity with people who genuinely cannot afford to pay. There will be a scheme, whether a waiver or whatever, for these people. I accept what Senator O'Brien stated, namely, that everybody wants to do the right thing. I want to see this being a reflective Chamber. I want to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I just do not think we can say definitively now what the right approach is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: We need to examine things.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Pause a while on this. We will examine it. We will have a debate later today-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: -----and perhaps some good suggestions will come forward. I appeal to Senators to reflect and give it a little time rather than rushing to a vote willy-nilly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: That is why we must examine it further.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: We already have some.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Killarney House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Killarney National Park.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Not when Senator O'Brien is in charge on the other side.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: The Minister of State would welcome the opportunity to return.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Has the Senator tried it?