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Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: We are not disappointed. We are going up in the polls.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Senator should read the reports his party called for. The findings are not in agreement with the Senator.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Government has a hard neck and some cheek to ask the Parliament to renew this bank guarantee. In a speech before the general election, the current Minister of State eviscerated and castigated the former Government for tabling the same motion in 2010. Fine Gael and Labour attacked us. We were called economic traitors by the Labour Party. We were told that it was Labour's way or...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Now that they are in power, they are doing exactly what they castigated us for doing in 2010. They are doing this without shame, sorrow or apology to the people for breaking their solemn pre-election promises. It is outrageous and shameful and the electorate will reap a sorry revenge on Fine Gael and, in particular, the Labour Party. The motion is the right decision to make in the country's...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Six weeks before the election, Fine Gael voted against the same motion.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: This was a different guarantee.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Is being called an economic traitor fair or reasonable?

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I, too, thank Senator Quinn for bringing forward this short but important legislation. In terms of value per line of legislation it gives better value, like his former business, in that it does a great deal. The Fianna Fáil Party supports this Bill which seeks to address what the judge recognised as unintended anomalies and consequences of the 2003 Act. I note the judge does not make any...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: We have a power which is relatively rare in upper houses in parliaments across the world in that we have the power to initiate legislation. In many parliaments throughout Europe the upper house does not have the power to initiate legislation; it is merely a revising chamber. We are more than a revising chamber and Senator Quinn has taken the purpose of the Seanad under the Constitution and...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Courts Service (27 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Is oth liom go bhfuil an méid sin á rá ag an Aire Stáit. Ba mhaith liom cuid dá ráitis a lua. I want to specify part of the Minister of State's speech, where he said, "the identification of venues as part of the review process does not conclusively mean that the identified venues will close". This is reminiscent of the 35 health centres which I raised in relation to Kells. In that...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Courts Service (27 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I ask the Government to stop downgrading the town of Kells, County Meath.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Courts Service (27 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Not in large towns.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Courts Service (27 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Táim an-bhuíoch den Chathaoirleach as ligint domsa an t-ábhar seo a ardú ar Athló an tSeanaid anocht. Is ábhar an-thábhachtach é seo maidir le teach cúirte Ceanannais Móir, Contae na Mí. This is the third time that I have stood in the Seanad to address what I perceive to be the downgrading of the town of Kells by the Government. I spoke on the cancellation of the Eureka school...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: We had three hours but the Minister for Justice and Equality used up one hour and 15 minutes. I spoke in the debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Do not imply that I was not here for yesterday's debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I was one of them.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister took nearly half of the three hours allocated for the debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: There was not enough time. The Minister took half the time.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: There are many problems in the country and it is a pity more business is not being taken. That calls into the question the Government's true agenda and whether it is able to run the country in the way it has been elected to do. I refer to the mortgage to rent scheme, a pillar of Labour Party policy. Labour Party Senators were among the first to recommend such an approach, although I...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: It does not state that.