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Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Last night, the President pointed out that the Seanad was a place where we could be fearless in speaking, but I am afraid that we are always flunking. We have had months and months of worked up public anger about the banks, which has all been very well, but two groups benefited from the Celtic tiger, namely, the property groups allied with the banks and the public sector. While Anglo Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)

Eoghan Harris: They did not.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Does the Senator support it?

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I welcome what Senator O'Toole said. I know this is a bad day for the economy and I know that people think the rock of the banking debacle lying on them is the worst they have to deal with, but there is a larger rock coming down on them and that is the public sector finances to which the Minister referred yesterday. If there is to be any credibility in the Croke Park deal, cuts in numbers...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Eoghan Harris: No caesareans — it is full term.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Last week saw the first tentative moves towards a civility in this House and towards an agreement that everyone and every party has an obligation to do their best to take the country out of this terrible period it is in. I have criticised the Taoiseach before for his tribal approach to politics. He has been partisan, but he seems to have learned some lessons. Now I want to say to Fine Gael...

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I am handing it out to both sides. I support the call of Senator Joe O'Toole for a discussion, which will have to involve all parties, on the Croke Park agreement. As the late and much mourned Moss Keane said about one of the first matches he played for Castleisland, it was the kind of game which was of more interest to the participants than to the spectators. That is the kind of politics...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I support Senator O'Toole's remarks in support of the call by the Green Party for consensus. Like him, I deplore the Taoiseach's tepid response and that of the other parties. Professor Rónán Fanning suggested the appropriate response to our structural crisis, the greatest crisis the State has ever faced, would be to establish a cross-party forum along the lines of the New Ireland Forum of...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Common logic and arithmetic dictate we should look to the public sector to make savings. Marc Coleman pointed out that if we were to look to the public sector alone, neither the welfare sector nor the productive private sector would need to be touched. There are pension liabilities of €108 billion, huge salaries, hundreds of thousands of euro being spent on hospitals that have not been...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: It is common sense. Senator Buttimer has turned into a party hack.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: What has that got to do with public sector cuts?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: You are just looking out for the teachers. That is all you are doing. You are petty and-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I want to take a cut and I want you to take a cut.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: You have a big problem. You are fighting it every inch of the way.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: You are bluffing and blustering.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: That man made very personal remarks.