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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: ——-should be guiding the Government in this matter and ensuring matters are rectified. As I said yesterday, if they could get the banks to apologise publicly for what happened, as their British counterparts have done, that would help. Many Senators have spoken of the need for trust and confidence. We will have neither without first clearing the decks. We cannot move forward until that...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: Yes, he did. I concur wholeheartedly with everything he said in that regard. Fairness is what is important.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: As Senator O'Toole said, we must have immediate engagement on this issue. Nobody wants to savage anybody in receipt of the minimum wage.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator has taught the younger Members well.

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: I very much welcome the Minister of State. He has been very attentive to the House and, if I might be so bold as to say, perhaps this House stood him in good stead. I also thank him for what he said. He always manages to impart a message and he has done so with undoubted enthusiasm. I hope and sincerely trust that what he outlined will be followed through as a matter of urgency. He...

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: No barrister is new to the procedure of the House.

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: Cover.

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator's time has concluded.

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator's point is made.

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: We have until 7.10 p.m. What can we do?

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: I am advised the Minister of State cannot move an amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: The proposer will be called at 7.15 p.m. to reply. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: Is that agreed? Agreed. The Senators have five minutes each.

Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Norris is eating into Senator Doherty's time.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Leyden needs a slip of paper in his right hand.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: Is Senator Leyden serious?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: We all wish to see matters coming right quickly in the banking sector. What say, if any, did the Government have on the appointment of the new man in the Bank of Ireland? We were given to understand that through the appointment of the public interest directors, of which there are two with others to be appointed, we would have a say in this. The problem is the growth of the wonky loan books...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: It is the principle, not the personality.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Paul Coghlan: What about the powers of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement?