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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Rail Network (28 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, to the House. The Minister of State is very familiar with Sligo. I understand he has been in Sligo for nearly the past month. He has visited St. Angela's College and he also was down to launch the national development plan. The Minister of State went down very well while he was there. This matter concerns the need for the Minister...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Rail Network (28 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I appreciate the extra rail fleet coming online. We must try to address the times and the length of time it takes to get from the north west to Dublin by rail. The distance from Dublin to Roscommon town is ten miles shorter than the distance from Dublin to Boyle, which is on the Sligo line. It takes 50 minutes less to get to Roscommon town...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: Senator Leyden will still be here.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: I also extend to Senator Ó Clochartaigh every good wish for the future. I met him when he was first elected to the House seven years ago. He brought a huge interest in media and the arts. He came from very much a community background. I was my party's spokesperson on the Irish language and a friend of Senator Ó Clochartaigh's interviewed me and, let us say, she found me out in...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I also wish Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general of the HSE, well. He took over in 2012 at a very difficult time for the health service and did make a difference. I saw the difference he had made in Roscommon University Hospital and the setting up of the Saolta University Health Care Group in very difficult circumstances. The HSE and the health service will always be difficult areas to sort...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the witnesses. I do not profess to be an expert on pensions. I come from a self-employed background and I employed between 30 and 50 people. They were not members of a union. My knowledge of unions was not great but if a worker had wanted to be a member of a union, I would have been only too happy. The business closed five or six years ago and the staff got their entitlements....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I called on the Minister for an independent investigation. If that includes legal opinion, so be it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: Is Mr. O'Leary saying that when there are staff meetings, passengers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I am reading from a statement in the Irish Independentfrom January, which indicates that when staff meetings happen, passengers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I did not get involved in politics for Dáil seats or anything. We have different views but I can imagine the emails coming in now. It is not about Dáil seats but about getting this right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I want to clarify something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: Can I clarify something?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I have to go to the Seanad. I am here since 9.30 a.m. I am here two hours and I have to go to the Seanad, if that is possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: Hang on a second, Chair. It is not a bailout but where will the money come from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I have been here since 9.30 a.m. and everyone is coming and going. I will be back in five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I have been here since 9.30 a.m. and it is interesting to hear all the various views. This committee does not have the expertise of the Workplace Relations Commission. Did I hear crystal clear that the national transport system could grind to a halt because of a difference of €30,000 or €40,000? Is that what I am hearing because we have been talking about the figure of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I understand that. We have been talking for the past half an hour to an hour about a difference €30,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: If not, what have we been talking about for the past hour?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: Exactly. We agree on that.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: It is welcome that it is International Women's Day. I was asked what woman I had found inspirational during the years. It has to be Mrs. Mary Robinson who was elected as the seventh President of Ireland. It was a great day for women. She was inspirational. As she said, she had been elected by the women of Ireland, that instead of rocking the cradle, they had rocked the system. It was an...