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Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I also support Senator van Turnhout's call for the Minister to come to the House and hope the Cathaoirleach will look benignly on a request that rarely succeeds. In this instance, we are facing a crisis of enormous proportions. I want to put on the record my appreciation of RTE's investigative unit, which has done itself and the country a great public service in highlighting what many of us...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: We need only look at their huge profits.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: What does Senator O'Donnell know?

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: On a point of order, I do not particularly need a lecture from the Deputy Leader on the language I use. As a student of the period of history that I mentioned - obviously, the Deputy Leader is not - the parallels with the manner in which the people concerned treated those children are very stark.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I used that language in order to highlight the horrors we witnessed on television last night. I do not need a lecture from the Deputy Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I am fully aware of the Deputy Leader's background, which is all the more reason she should have understood what I was trying to say.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Margareta Wahlström (29 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I also welcome Ms Wahlström to the House. To put my question in context, I served on the Council of Europe until 2008 and my last report as rapporteur was on Europe's response to humanitarian disasters, on which I worked with Mr. Sergio Piazzi, now based in Malta and with whom I believe Ms Wahlström also worked. I am interested in an update on the situation from Ms Wahlström,...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I second the motion. I welcome the Minister. Senator Mullen has stolen all our clothes, having given a comprehensive overview of the issues. I will not go over old ground but Fianna Fáil welcomes the publication of the policy advice paper on supporting students with special needs in schools by the NCSE. A number of issues arise. The paper found that such students are well supported...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the fact that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, will be coming to the House today and I thank the Leader for arranging this important debate. However, there is a real sense of groundhog day about the Order of Business and our response on this side of the House in that, once again, a guillotine will be imposed in the sense that all Stages ---

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: All Stages will be taken which amounts to the same thing.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: There was a major row in the other House yesterday, resulting in the suspension of a Member after a similar argument was put forward about the lack of time for debate. If ever there was an argument for retaining this House, it is contained in this Government decision in both Houses. This Government is riding roughshod over the democratic institutions of this State. There is no question...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: No.

Seanad: Early Child Care Education Standards: Statements (30 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister to the House. Her presence enhances the role of the House and she has given a comprehensive statement in response to the shocking scenes we witnessed on Tuesday night. It is sad that it has taken such a programme to activate all the responses we have heard over the past 48 hours. I agree with the sentiments expressed about Deputy Fitzgerald as a person but we are...

Seanad: Early Child Care Education Standards: Statements (30 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: There are priorities.

Seanad: Early Child Care Education Standards: Statements (30 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Is there a timeframe for that?

Seanad: Early Child Care Education Standards: Statements (30 May 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Does that include the perpetrators rather than the providers?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I support Senator Quinn's call for a debate on tourism. Indeed, we should have regular debates on tourism in this House. Given that the six-monthly figures will be published shortly, now is an ideal time for the Government to outline the impact of The Gathering so far. Indications are that it is proving very positive, with the exception of the British market, which seems to be the Achilles...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I also wish to bring to the attention of the Leader my disquiet, and that of many others, at an article that appeared last week in the Irish Independent written by a journalist who decided that he would use the criteria of the first quarter to highlight what he believed was the absence of Members of this House during the sitting periods. The facts of the article are not in dispute. However,...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Paschal Mooney: The Irish Times will know it before Senator Cummins knows it as Leader of the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Paschal Mooney: After the Leader reads it in The Irish Times.