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Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2007 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I accept the Minister of State's explanation for the need for this amendment as the Bill has taken some time to go through both Houses of the Oireachtas and the elections to both Houses was part of that process. I welcome the fact that an annual report is part of the procedures of this Bill and, along with Senator Carty, I feel it is important that the reporting mechanism for such a Bill...

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2007 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I too will welcome the final passage of this Bill into enactment when it is signed by Uachtarán na hÉireann as it represents an important development in legislation in this area. This applies particularly to the area of licensing and the introduction of a series of controls on an industry that few members of the public in Ireland wish to see develop. On those grounds, the legislation...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: Last weekend I had the pleasure of visiting Belfast on the occasion of the annual conference of the Green Party in Northern Ireland. The Green Party in Northern Ireland is a regional council of the Green Party on this island. We are one of only two political parties that operate on an all-island basis. Not only are we represented in both Houses of the Oireachtas but we are also represented...

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I sense a huge dichotomy between the motion presented to us this evening by Fine Gael and the opening contributions of its members. On the surface I cannot disagree with the wording of the motion as I want to see an acceleration of the reform of sectors of our economy. I want the role of the Oireachtas to be respected. I want to ensure vital infrastructure is delivered and the funding...

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I am referring to the rate of economic growth used by the Fine Gael Party, not whether two sides of the balance sheet added up.

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: The Fine Gael Party produced an exaggerated rate of economic growth, which it was not possible to achieve, either then or now. We are not in a national or international recession, nor is the economy stagnation. The worst thing to happen to the economy, still one of the best performers in Europe, is that the rate of economic growth has slowed. Valid criticisms can be made of the way in which...

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I am a few decibels short of my ranting voice.

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: If my words are so offensive to the Senators opposite, the truth must hurt.

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: Since 1982, the Fine Gael Party has been found wanting in seeking the confidence of the electorate.

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: The reason it has been found wanting is that it has not been honest economically. In the current international economic climate we are still projecting an annual economic growth rate of 2.7% this year, which is well above the European average and double that of most of our competitors. I am confident we will not have a repeat of our experience of the 1980s because the economic growth...

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: Did the Senator not hear Senator MacSharry's contribution? The EU said exactly what I said.

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: The EU referred to lower rates of growth. The Fine Gael Party can complain when it is in Government and achieves economic growth every year. If one does not have economic growth, one does not have the additional resources to meet needs.

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I read it avidly. Senator Buttimer might do the same when he understands economics.

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: My confidence is based on the fact that the structure of the economy has changed and our relationships with trading partners are much different. For instance, when we joined the European Economic Community we conducted 50% of our trade with the United Kingdom, our main trading partner. This figure has reduced to 14% and our main trading partner is now the United States, with which we...

Seanad: Economic Outlook: Motion (20 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: He will give them though.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: The statements on a national waste strategy are proceeding through the House and we will return to them next week. The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government will be in the House to take this debate. The opportunity of the Minister's presence should be used to make a definitive statement on waste management policy. Last evening, an application was made to An Bord...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: In politics the human issues are always the most difficult to deal with and to govern on. It is easy in Opposition to oppose. It becomes more difficult in Government to come up with appropriate decisions. Recent Irish political history involving all Governments and political persuasions in the make-up of those Governments has seen a raft of measures on issues that were inappropriately...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: In saying that, we have a collective responsibility in addressing it.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: It ill behoves the Opposition to point fingers and name-call on an issue such as this. It is difficult enough to deal with the issue without having a common approach on it. I would go even further and say that what has been a departmental-led approach in all these issues to resort to the courts system to delay what were necessary social improvements in many of these areas has not been a...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: Most of the public disquiet about the recent case arose because while the Government did not ask the Ó Cuanacháins to pay the State's legal costs as well, which a court decision would have allowed it to do, the fact that the Ó Cuanacháins' side of those costs alone cost approximately €2 million says something about the cost of judicial action in the first instance. On the need for...