Results 201-220 of 4,773 for speaker:Paudie Coffey
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: New time lines means postponement or cancellation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: If they did not squander it, they would have it to spend.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: They are all about that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: They made their reputation on it.
- Seanad: Housing Market: Statements (8 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for facilitating the debate on housing. It is an appropriate time to debate this important matter of concern for many citizens, whether they are people on housing lists or people who have purchased privately and are paying mortgages. We need to debate the issue of housing and to consider in detail how we will meet the new challenges...
- Seanad: Housing Market: Statements (8 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: The number of repossessions carried out to date this year in Ireland has risen sharply.
- Seanad: Housing Market: Statements (8 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: I thank the Minister of State for his time. I do not doubt his commitment to addressing the housing challenges. Housing policy should be constantly under review because the environment always changes. The Minister of State mentioned that he was bringing forward some loan equity scheme to help people to purchase houses. Is there a time frame for that? I welcome the fact he intends to do...
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: The Government made a hames of the decentralisation programme.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: I have listened with interest to some of the contributors and heard them refer to a "well-managed economy". When I hear this, I wonder whether we are living in the real world. The economy has enjoyed great growth over recent years and I acknowledge international factors, such as the price of oil, will affect it, but I would not go so far as to say it was well managed. In this regard, the...
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: I referred to overspending, which constitutes waste.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: The Senator should get his facts right.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: Fine Gael handed over an economy in surplus.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: Fine Gael handed over a perfectly good economy in 1997.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: The Senator should not worry. We will remind him.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: The Senator should not rest on her laurels.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: The Government has been in power for ten years.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: Of course it has. A turnaround of some â¬10 billion representing the biggest deterioration in the public finances in the history of the State.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: The Senator is in denial.
- Seanad: Economic Policy: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2008)
Paudie Coffey: The live register contains the highest figures in ten years.