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Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: Is this a Cumann na nGaedheal text from 1932?

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: Did Senator Bannon get this from the archives?

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: Not true.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: Dream on.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: We know where the Labour Party stands on decentralisation. The Senator has written off the rest of the country.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: No, the Senator is not. He is in a party which wants to go into Government with—

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: I am reluctant to go down the road of trying to reply to the political points made, although I wish to make two points. I have the greatest respect for Senator McDowell, who has great expertise. He was also his party's finance spokesman and there is a possibility that at some point in the future, he may again become Deputy McDowell and may end up as Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: I am afraid that for those of us from the country—

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: —it will be a cold House for people from the country—

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: —coming up looking for—

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: I am speaking to the motion because an attack was made on the decentralisation policy that has been pursued by every Administration since the foundation of the State and which has not been implemented until today. It will be implemented within the timeframe. It is a happy day for the people of County Leitrim. My late father sat in this House and on many occasions, along with his...

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: I compliment the Government and the Minister of State, Deputy Parlon. I hope he will also ensure that the relocation of the sections of the Department of Agriculture and Food from Sligo to Leitrim will take place. The site has been purchased in my home town of Drumshanbo and is now at the conveyancing stage. That decision was pursued by the Government not as part of a decentralisation...

Seanad: Order of Business. - Budget Statement: Motion. (3 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: It is no wonder when we have to listen to him paint a picture of dismal gloom to a point where I was almost in tears until I woke up and realised he was not talking about Ireland 2003 but about some never never land in which Fine Gael resides. The circle is complete. Fine Gael lives in the past and we have a putative Minister for Finance who does not believe in decentralisation. I will be...

Seanad: Address by Mr. Seán Ó Neachtáin, MEP. (11 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak. I am pleased to see in the House my colleague, Mr. Ó Neachtáin, MEP, who comes from what is now being somewhat strangely referred to as "the west". I apologise for not being in the House when Mr. Ó Neachtáin arrived. I was attending a meeting of the National Forum for Europe, which I know Mr. Ó Neachtáin would also have been attending but for...

Seanad: Address by Ms Avril Doyle, MEP. (11 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: That happened frequently.

Seanad: Address by Ms Avril Doyle, MEP. (11 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: I will, tomorrow night.

Seanad: Address by Ms Avril Doyle, MEP. (11 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: From 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock on RTE, live from Athlone.

Seanad: Address by Ms Avril Doyle, MEP. (11 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: Thank you, Acting Chairman. As my colleagues will tell me, and as Senator Walsh is very much aware, it was always a formidable task to follow the then Senator, and prior to that Minister, Doyle in this House. One had to be on one's toes and nothing has changed in that regard.

Seanad: Address by Ms Avril Doyle, MEP. (11 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: In fact, on the last occasion Deputy Doyle – I believe I am right in referring to MEPs as Deputy—

Seanad: Address by Ms Avril Doyle, MEP. (11 Dec 2003)

Paschal Mooney: I heard that phrase being used previously and I thought I would put it on the record not wishing to appear smart, but to give her her true status.