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

Dan Boyle: I am not criticising it.

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

Dan Boyle: My own familiarity with the use of judicial action against departmental or Government inaction came about early in my political career when I met Marie O'Donoghue, whose son Paul took the initial case that was subsequently followed on in the Sinnott case in regard to lifelong learning for people with an intellectual disability. While we are concentrating narrowly in terms of autism on...

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

Dan Boyle: That is not a fault solely of Government. It has to do——

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

Dan Boyle: They are the State's resources.

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

Dan Boyle: I would like to think that the whole point of my contribution is to highlight that we have not been having this debate properly. It has been conducted in the normal discourse of politics, namely, finger pointing and name calling. It is not addressing the wider ramifications of the issue or the long-term needs. I pointed out a series of measures by which other political parties and other...

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

Dan Boyle: The Government has a responsibility that I feel is being fulfilled to a certain extent but, as an individual person, I think it needs to be improved upon. That process is not helped, either in terms of the issue or the people who live with it, by the use of the issue as a political football. That is the central point of my contribution.

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

Dan Boyle: I would like to think I am contributing to a debate rather than explaining my reasons for contributing to a debate. I am not identifying individual people or contributions that have been made in recent hours. To deal with this issue requires a significant change of mindset by the Minister, the Department and everyone involved in politics, especially the Opposition.

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

Dan Boyle: It is a shared responsibility.

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

Dan Boyle: I did not get my three minutes back.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I wish to be associated with the opinions of Senators Fitzgerald and Norris regarding the horrendous incident in Dublin last night involving the two Polish nationals and which has resulted in the death of one man and the serious injury of the other. Everyone in this House will have similar opinions as regards the nature of that attack and the fact that it should not happen at all in this...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I have possible suggestions. The Defamation Bill is coming back to this House next week and I may speak to that in this regard——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: With regard to Senator Buttimer's contribution the fact the nurses and midwives Bill is also due to be discussed in the House might be another pretext. While I am greatly honoured——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: ——that my opinions are so highly valued by fellow Senators——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I wish to put on the record the context of what I said because it could be easily dealt with here rather than in a subsequent debate. In the course of a radio interview yesterday, I expressed an opinion that the holder of political office, having expressed the fact that they will not hold that office in the near future, will, in the first instance decide for themselves and second, decide...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I also went on to express the opinion that ——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I also went on to express the opinion that my own role and that of my party is not to decide who should be the leader of another political party.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: It is a principle——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: ——I would recommend to members of other parties in this House and other Members of this House. I would have strong opinions——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I was of the opinion that the abilities of leaders of other political parties would not fit in with my own template of what a political party should do.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I recognise that——