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Seanad: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)

Paschal Mooney: It may not be that amount. Is that correct?

Seanad: Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I find the Government's policy on local government finance contradictory. On the one hand, the Minister of State said there is ¤960 million. I ask him please to correct me if I am wrong about the following. Legislation was introduced some years ago to ring-fence that amount of money which meant the Government could not touch it. I am inclined to believe that happened. Otherwise he would...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: With all due respect to Senator Moloney, it is a bit late in the date in the day to be reminding people of a 5 p.m. deadline.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I gather this issue came up yesterday on the Joe Duffy show and it seems many of the disability groups are not aware of it. However, I did not get up to speak on that issue. Senator Moloney is, of course, right to remind people that it is very important that the consultative process be maximised. Was the Leader aware that RTE had planned to produce the programme on the Houses of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: My question to the Leader is this. Where is the money going to come from? Are the doctors, the nurses, the teachers and the front-line services, those on maternity benefits, single parent families and all of those who are vulnerable in society, who are struggling under the yoke of increased taxation, the ones who will have to find this money? Where is the €300 million going to come...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I will finish on this point, for which I am grateful to Senator Norris. There is a famous character in a Seán O'Casey play called Mrs. Burgess, who says: "Yous are all nicely shanghaied now!"

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Why did she bring it up first?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: What about the Leader?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I am curious to know why no office holder of the House accompanied the cameras. That is the reason I asked the question.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: With all due respect, I would be more than happy to have anybody come into the House but we do not have sufficient legislation which the Chamber is supposed to be about.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: This is the second House of the Oireachtas and it is for the purpose of debating legislation.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Please do not try to smear what I am saying in relation to the young people.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I would welcome any group coming to the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: That is not the point. That is typical of this Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I support the impassioned plea made by my colleague, Senator Denis O'Donovan, on the fodder crisis and the amendment proposed to the Order of Business. I inform the House that this very serious issue was raised at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine this morning. It was traumatic to hear the distressing tales from the south of the country, in particular,...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: He never got much thanks for doing so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sectoral Plan (2012 Edition): Motion (18 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the initiatives that have been taken. Great praise is due to Dublin Bus in respect of what it has done with regard to what has been something of a sore point for many years. During the debate on the Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 in the Seanad, Senator Barrett referred to the legal position of existing taxi drivers as against that of those who are coming into the trade now. He pointed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sectoral Plan (2012 Edition): Motion (18 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I compliment the Minister of State on the amount of time he has afforded us.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Without re-opening the debate, some of us on this side of the House agree with Senator Healy Eames's comments. Our query relates to how Senator Bacik seemed not to separate her role as a Senator from that of her role as Deputy Leader. No one on this side of the House had an opportunity to respond to her position. When is it intended for the Minister for Finance or the Minister of State at...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Is there an opportunity for the House to debate the question of whether austerity works? It is becoming increasingly obvious to everyone that it does not work. The last budget was the tipping point for the majority of taxpayers. With water charges and the property tax coming down the line, a further €2 billion or €2.5 billion remaining to be taken out of the economy, although...