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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: This House has a private eye in Senator Leyden.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: Is Senator Leyden sponsored by Shell?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: He was not given any cash.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: There are a lot of bones.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: Has the Senator seen a copy of it?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: She said that with such sincerity.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: That is my line.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: And with Senator O'Rourke. I suspect Senator Bannon is not alone.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: It does apply to journalists.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: What is the Government view on Private Members' motion No. 9. Will it oppose it?

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: He is the Lord of Castlebar.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: It was not the poodles of Longford, who were mentioned in the House this morning.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: There are no poodles of Tallaght.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: We read it.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: I warmly welcome the motion that has been tabled by the Labour Party Senators. I thank Senator Tuffy for raising this issue regularly in the past few months. I thank the Leader of the House for giving this matter such a positive airing when it has been highlighted on the Order of Business. I recall the first day the new Seanad met after the last election, almost four and a half years ago....

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: I think that a certain number of people, in the current public mood, will respond to the process of reform if we can get on with implementing it. We dealt with this issue to a slight extent in our document when we said there should be a formal process of consultation—

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: —before a Bill is published or after the heads of a Bill have been published. It was proposed that any group that could be affected by legislation should be entitled to come to this Chamber to give Senators their considered views in advance of Second Stage. The suggestion that has been made by Senator Tuffy and her colleagues is a better one, however, because it allows for a bottom-up...

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: We need to understand the principle that underpins Private Bills. The Standing Orders which relate to Private Bills, rather than to the public business of this House, could well be the foundation of the acceptance of the proposal that has been made by Senator Tuffy. If an Oireachtas committee establishes that an individual or an institution has a locus standi, it is within the rights of...

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: New Labour, with all its years in office and its bright populist public consultation, had not thought of it.

Seanad: Petitions Committee: Motion (4 Oct 2006)

Brian Hayes: There we have it — just leave it to the people. I have referred to that case as an example of many ideas which can be implemented. Public services are never designed to meet the needs of the people who use them.