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Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)

Terry Leyden: Senator Fitzgerald raised the matter of an bord snip nua and the report by Mr. Colm McCarthy. First, the report should be considered by the Government before it is published but the Government should publish it subsequently before any decisions are made in order to allow people to absorb the seriousness of the situation. Senators could make observations in this House to the Government...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2009)

Terry Leyden: It would be worthwhile to have a debate in this House, if possible, on the report by Mr. Colm McCarthy when it is published by the Government. We can discuss the steps to be taken. Regarding the economic debate which has been discussed and promised, I am concerned about export credit insurance, which is extremely difficult for small businesses to obtain at present. There are some...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: Will the Leader find a slot for a debate on the Middle East before the end of the session? Yesterday Israelis boarded a boat carrying pro-Palestinian supporters, including Mairead Maguire, the Irish Nobel Prize winner for her work in Northern Ireland, David Graham, an Irish electrician, and Cynthia McKinney, a former US Congresswoman - this is public knowledge - and they are now being...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: That will be done.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: We will and we can.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: We need the Tallaght strategy again.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Áine Brady.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: Are times of four and three minutes, respectively, agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Áine Brady, to the House and congratulate her on her exemplary ministerial work to date. I wish her continued success. I will not welcome any Bill that imposes a tax, but it is a necessary evil at this time and is inventive in terms of taxation. It is basically a voluntary declaration, which is always risky, given that people are not known to...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: I have just one other point. A seminar on planning and building energy regulations will be held. All these seminars, including one on the economy, what went wrong and how to fix it, are very useful. I ask the Minister of State, Deputy Finneran, to use his influence with the Minister, Deputy Gormley, in respect of this matter. It would be counter-productive and would affect the education of...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: I thank the Senator for his contribution.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: I thank the Senator for his kind remarks.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: The Senator cannot use this as an opportunity to campaign.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: I call Senator Quinn. I hope he does not intend to take the opportunity to make a declaration on his own behalf. The Bill before us does not relate to the creation of a directly elected lord mayor of Dublin.

Seanad: Unemployment: Motion (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Billy Kelleher, to the House and wish him well in the Department. I was there and it is a demanding role, particularly at present. I commend our colleagues in the Green Party on tabling the motion to highlight the situation. The timing is very appropriate given the unfortunate announcements today and the number of people who are unemployed. It is a...

Seanad: Unemployment: Motion (1 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: We let him down because we did not agree to the Private Members' motion in the Dáil at the time on providing funding of £400,000 for haemophilia sufferers. We should have agreed to it but we did not. Alan Dukes was very courageous in his approach in that regard and gave us an opportunity to continue with very hard decisions. There was a 10% cut across all Departments, including the then...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: I know the schedule is very busy but it is important we have a debate prior to the summer recess on the present state of the economy and to consider the past manifestos of the parties from the previous general election. The Fine Gael manifesto for the 2007 election stated: Our manifesto commitments are fully costed and affordable in the context of the prudent budgetary assumptions drawn from...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: I do not mind mentioning Nostradamus as he is dead and will not be back.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2009)

Terry Leyden: Contrary to what Fine Gael stated, it had no view of what would happen in 2009, that the international banks would collapse and so would the world economy.