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Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: I am trying to help the Senator because his time is nearly up.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: It was rushed out.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: As Senator Fitzgerald stated today, the prospect of the stuffing of so many State boards in the dying days of a Government or of any Administration is appalling. It is totally unseemly, does nothing to inspire confidence and is very damaging to politics. We are in enough trouble as it is without the unseemly haste with which this is to take place. The process is entirely lacking in...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: Surely, by virtue of the shareholding the Minister holds now in these institutions on behalf of the State, and the moral authority apart from that, none of those institutions would dare overrule him or even if they did, would not be able to overrule him in the proper exercise of the powers he possesses.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: I appreciate the Minister's point on clarity in law. Would he not aid the speed of execution if he could ensure the non-continuance in office of any remaining so-called legacy directors? I take his point about Stock Exchange rules and people who could put cows on the line. We may not be playing the cleverest game on behalf of the State with the continuance of certain people in office in...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: Double jobbing.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: Next February.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: I wish to be associated with the words of appreciation extended to the Cathaoirleach and all of the staff. I welcome the transfer of major files, following two years of exhaustive investigation into the circular transfer of funds between some of our financial institutions. It is hoped we will now see the fruits of this work, particularly regarding the transfer in 2008 of approximately €7.2...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: The Cathaoirleach knows as well as I do that he is the man who tells the Irish nation and would tell the world if he could get away with it that we never employ the guillotine in this House. For a while early in his career it was true-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: -----but look at what he has done to us this week. He is bringing the House into disrepute.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: Perhaps the Leader will respond because he must return to the way we should do business.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: Our best graduates.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Walsh was right.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: Following from what many colleagues have said I ask the Leader to confirm and outline in his response the way he sees the sittings of this House continuing in this session. Will the House sit on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays? Will it sit on a Friday? What Bills does he envisage the House will deal with? Is it the Leader's understanding, as has been stated here, that this House will...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: No. I am coming to a question, a Chathaoirligh, and I beg your indulgence in that regard. Your forbearance is always very much appreciated.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: You know me.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: Brevity is my middle name.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: I am coming to that. The Cathaoirleach is putting me off my drift.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: I have always believed that Dr. Michael Somers was right in his view on not placing deposits with Anglo Irish Bank. We all had our own views, and perhaps we did not express them to a great extent, and we may have made mistakes in investing in other financial institutions but some of us never went near Anglo Irish Bank. In any event, I always believed that Dr. Michael Somers was correct. A...