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Seanad: Orders of Reference of Select Committee: Motion (7 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: We also have an Oireachtas committee that deals with——

Seanad: Orders of Reference of Select Committee: Motion (7 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: My thinking is the same as the Senator's on that. We also have an Oireachtas committee on climate change and energy security, which deals with functions that exist in two other Oireachtas committees. If it is a question of phraseology about a sub-committee as opposed to a special committee, perhaps motions could be phrased along that line but however we name this group, and it is named a...

Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: This Bill seeks to give statutory effect to the Government's port policy statement. The definition of a port policy statement can be taken to mean a statement of the port policy of the Government. I tend to think of it as a statement of the Government moving towards a ports policy, because it is an evolving policy area over several years and it is clear this Bill is an attempt to meet some...

Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Second Stage (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I understand the Senator's point about Bantry and I am prepared to listen to the arguments. There are economies of scale that need to be taken into account, and this Bill is about that. There is a case for some linkage between the port of Cork and Bantry port, if only to have a responsibility for a body of the State for the oil refinery facilities in Whitegate and the oil storage facilities...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: We are against carbon footprints.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: As an ecumenical gesture, I would like to share time with Senator McCarthy.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: While I understand much of what this evening's Private Members' motion is trying to achieve, I feel that Fine Gael has adopted too much of a scattergun approach. The wording of the motion does not make it clear whether Fine Gael's primary concern is the size of the capitation fee, the level of infrastructural spending on school buildings or the extent of additional expenditure on IT matters....

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: ——an insult to the developing world.

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: The idea that anything is of a "Third World standard" prejudges the kind of standard that exists in many countries. While I agree that our ICT infrastructure is not what it should be, I understand that the Departments of Education and Science and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources have an innovative initiative in the pipeline, to be announced in the coming months. I hope the...

Seanad: Primary School Funding: Motion (8 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I will outline the problem with the schools building programme. We need to look beyond the need to construct new schools and repair those which are quite old. We should try to provide schools which are cost efficient. Schools are the public buildings that are most numerous in our society. If we are to create an environment in which people can go through the education system in the most...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: The Senator said it first. It is no news to us.

Seanad: Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Statements (9 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak. Given the times in which we find ourselves, this is a very useful debate. There is no doubt we live in a global economy where the issue of debt is affecting nations and large institutions and we know that within our own society the level of personal debt is at an historic high. The value of the service provided by the money advice and budgeting...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: It did.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: That is expensive.

Seanad: Unemployment Levels: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I read the Labour Party proposals, and they are a Keynesian analysis that we can spend our way out of the current situation. That raises the obvious question of which money we spend to achieve that desired end. Yesterday's budget, which we will discuss in greater detail later, clearly shows we do not have that money to spend, and it is not a short-term response. If the response is a larger...

Seanad: Unemployment Levels: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: It is a lot of it, and there is no surprise there either. Regarding employment, we must discuss the state of the global economy. In the United States, the national debt clock that measured their debt in trillions of dollars has become obsolete because the debt has moved into the quadrillion category and the clock does not measure the size of the debt any more. The United States has been...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I accept what Senator Ross says in terms of taking a strategic approach in terms of whether one accepts or rejects what is proposed in this budget. That is preferable to the usual knee-jerk reaction that accompanies debates like this. Senator Ross's contribution was based on a particular economic view of how we should be proceeding. I do not claim to be an expert on Marx but a Marxist...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: We will have opportunities during the debates on the Social Welfare and Finance Bills to go into the detail of the budget. If the Leader can arrange for the Minister for Health and Children to come into the House in the near future, it may help. A number of Senators referred to confusion, some of which has been caused by misleading statements.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: I am explaining why a debate on the budget might be useful.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Dan Boyle: Earlier, I heard on radio that if the Government is to effect €100 million in savings from the Estimates, it will be paid by pensioners. This cost will be borne by the members of the Irish Medical Organisation, who receive four times as much for treating patients under the medical card scheme for the over 70s as they do under the normal scheme. That is where the money will be saved.