Results 181-200 of 445 for speaker:Eoghan Harris

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I have told Senator Norris before that he is what Lenin called a "useful idiot", that is, a liberal who is manipulated by extreme subversive forces. Having said that, I congratulate-----

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I ask Senator Norris to shut up and let me speak. I did not shout while he was talking.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Senator Norris's ego is out of control. He is another George Lee.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I congratulate Deputy Kenny, leader of Fine Gael, and Deputy Gilmore, leader of the Labour Party, for their stunning success in last week's elections. Deputy Kenny receives a very bad press and receives little recognition for the trojan work he has done for his party. I congratulate Alex White and Senators Bacik, John Paul Phelan and my old friend, Joe O'Reilly, all of whom copperfastened...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I was very pleased that Alan Kelly did so well in the European elections, but I was not very pleased with some of the transfers he received. There is a great deal of tic-tacking taking place between Labour and Sinn Féin which deserves close scrutiny on the part of the people.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Irish democracy, from Daniel O'Connell to Isaac Butt to Parnell to John Redmond and on to the War of Independence and the Civil War, when only a small aberration occurred, has always had a great parliamentary, constitutional tradition of the centre. I hope that when the waters stirred up by Friday's elections have subsided and by the time the next election comes around, people will recognise...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I note the opposition of my colleague, Senator Norris, to the Lisbon treaty. He claims he was one of the first against it on military grounds. I also note, in the same spirit and along the same seamless robe of bad politics, that he is going to a press conference after the Order of Business where he will give substance to the incredible claims of-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Senator Norris, you are incontinent. Please let me make my remarks.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I hate the cliche that I did not heckle you, but heckle away. The point is that the Senator is going to a press conference after the Order of Business at which he will give substance to the claim of Pat O'Donnell, who claims his boat, the Iona Isle, was sank off Erris Head by a group of masked men at 1.40 a.m. who stayed three hours in the area and then departed, with six miles of...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: The up-market The Sunday Times, which I reckon is one of the newspapers the Senator reads, quotes the gardaí as saying the sinking story is fishy. The Senator is a close reader. He reads Ulysses------

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: He reads the text of James Joyce. Surely he can read the newspaper stories, all of which agree there is something fishy about that story yet the Senator proposes to go to-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: The people of north Mayo have given their judgment on this at two elections. They took the seat from the former Deputy Jerry Cowley and from Tim Quinn of Fianna Fáil as well because he was against the development of the area.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: In times of impending Armageddon, to paraphrase Senator Ross, a society normally turns to its wise old men and women. This morning, therefore, I attended the Lemass International Forum to hear Dr. T. K. Whitaker, who is 93 years old but who remains hale and hearty, impart his wisdom. Dr. Whitaker was reluctant to give any advice to current Governments — the civil servant in him restrains...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I thank Senator Norris.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Will the Leader arrange a debate in the near future on the entrepreneurial culture that was the subject of Dr. Whitaker's remarks this morning and on the need to stop what the latter referred to as the "miserabilism" within the Department of Finance? Dr. Whitaker also spoke about the Department's fiscal obsessions and the "inverted Micawberism" it displays by "waiting for something to turn...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I will touch on two issues. Senator Norris and others will join me in expressing condolences to the Cloney family of Fethard-on-Sea, as Sheila Cloney has passed away. We salute physical force republicanism and physical force heroes, but we do not salute moral heroes sufficiently. The Fethard-on-Sea boycott was one of the shabbiest periods in history, but it was also one of the noblest. It...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Second Stage (30 Jun 2009)

Eoghan Harris: When criminal justice issues are debated they are dominated by lawyers but it might not be a bad thing to hear more voices from the ordinary, non-legal side of the community. One of the reasons for the popular success of movies that deal with policemen who break the rules such as "Dirty Harry" is that the public sees the heroes carrying out justice as distinct from law. The public feels...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jul 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I call upon the Leader to convey the consensus that most Seanadóirí believe that an bord snip nua's report should be published. While he wants us to confine our points to this House, there is a certain sense of relief around Leinster House. It is like having noisy neighbours move out. There is a relief in the Chamber that we can breathe a bit and address ourselves to the issues that...