Results 361-380 of 445 for speaker:Eoghan Harris
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: You are. You are trying to defend-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: I am all for that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: As we speak, a cylinder is ascending through solid rock carrying the seventh or eighth of the Chilean miners, and I know that all of us who have followed Chile and its struggle to establish over the last 30 years will salute the epic achievement of the Chilean people, and the Chilean and other engineers who have achieved this. I do not think I have to labour the point about co-operation. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: True.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: It is good to have a young and dynamic Minister of State working on this matter. As I have told the House, the political class has been long institutionalised by the public service. As someone who formerly worked in an active body to protect the public service, my disillusionment set in at the time of Charles Haughey and the politicisation of the Civil Service. The current public service...
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: Consensus means there is an agreement to agree on something, it does not mean there is agreement on what that something should be. These are early days. I congratulate the Green Party and Senators Bradford and MacSharry from opposite sides of the House for their persistence in that regard, as it is what the people want. Deputy Rabbitte of the Labour Party has announced he is puzzled by it....
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: In my experience, this is a fair-minded assembly, except on the rare occasion on which it is gripped by party fever. I ask the House to put on its fair-minded apparatus to hear two points. I support the call of Senators O'Toole and O'Reilly for the brunt of any cuts to be borne by those parts of the public sector best able to bear them, and that means starting with ourselves. Far too many...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: I ask the Leader to arrange a debate on multiculturalism, immigration, integration and allied subjects. Senator Norris's mention of taxi drivers makes that all the more acute because the other side of taxi drivers is having to listen to them about racial minorities in Ireland. In recent weeks, we have heard much talk about Irish people not doing jobs and Pilipino nurses being employed...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: Senator O'Toole drew attention to the fact that our savings amount to over â¬100 billion. Some â¬88 billion of that is private savings and commonsense tells us a considerable portion of it must come from public servants such as the one who resigned recently on a pension of â¬155,000. What will he do with it? His children are presumably reared and his House is presumably paid for so he...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: We must find some way of extracting that idle â¬88 billion. One of the ingenious suggestions is that the Government should borrow from its citizens instead of borrowing abroad. It could set up a national bond, as was done during the War of Independence, where the citizens take part of the national debt at attractive rates. Look how effective the SSIA scheme was. If the Government offered...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: I support Senators Norris and Walsh in their belief that the fundamental problem in Roscommon was a dereliction of duty by public servants. There have been other reasons adduced and there is much merit in Senator Alex White's belief that in the background a certain amount of foot-dragging was caused by the constitutional protection afforded to the family. This certainly causes people to...
- Seanad: Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (28 Oct 2010)
Eoghan Harris: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh. Senator Ross has stolen all my thunder. There are only a few little lightning bolts left. The Minister of State indicated: the Government is determined that one of the key principles that will underpin its four-year plan will be that of fairness. Although perceptions of fairness can be subjective, I am confident that the Government can...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)
Eoghan Harris: I support the call to have the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, come into the House in order that we can congratulate her on her dignity yesterday without a "but" at the end of the sentence.