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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: I welcome today's meeting of the party leaders, at which the four-year budgetary strategy will be considered with particular reference to the forthcoming budget. I agree with Senator Donohoe that we should avoid comments about the "hand of history upon our shoulders". Today's talks will focus on what could be agreed, rather than trying to reach agreement. It is important that we all try to...

Seanad: Announcement on Banking by the Minister for Finance: Statements (20 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: We are, in fact, one of the wealthier countries in the world, and this information is based on gross domestic product.

Seanad: Announcement on Banking by the Minister for Finance: Statements (20 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: That is how we measure wealth. We are a country that has a positive balance of payments, meaning we take more money into the country than we send out of it. However, that is beside the point. The Minister of State and the regular participants in the Chamber are experiencing something like debate fatigue with what is now a weekly and sometimes bi-weekly debate on the economy, the budgetary...

Seanad: Announcement on Banking by the Minister for Finance: Statements (20 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: In Anglo Irish Bank, the €35 billion in losses is largely made up of deposits. The bondholders have €8 billion of the €35 billion and, of that €8 billion, close to €6 billion is held by senior debt holders and some €2 billion to €2.5 billion is held by subordinated bondholders. We have now made a decision in regard to extending the bank guarantee until the end of this year,...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: The issuing of the ESRI report has confused the issue of what the Government must do and what the political system must address in dealing with the budgetary crisis. It has given the impression that somehow we can delay the inevitable. What has been suggested in the report is akin to saying that if one has a 15 year mortgage, one can turn it into a 25 year one and that one would pay less...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: We proposed it.

Seanad: Tourism Sector: Statements (21 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: I welcome the Minister for this debate on the challenges facing the tourism sector which needs to be tinged with realism. I do not doubt that there is significant potential for the sector to contribute to future economic recovery. We need to identify the impediments and barriers hindering the development of a more successful tourism product in this country. I suggest a number of categories...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: I am happy to inform Senator Hannigan that there has been significant progress on the Government's climate change Bill and I expect an announcement to be made about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: I am glad such progress has been made because there is a need for a wider debate. Senator Bacik's Bill is deficient and the Bill from the committee on climate change is also deficient. The Government's Bill is an attempt-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: No, it is an attempt to fill many of those gaps and to bring more coherent legislation before the Houses. The reason that it and much promised legislation is not before the House is that too much of the Government's and particularly the Attorney General's attention has been taken up with dealing with our fiscal crisis. Like everybody else, I consider that unfortunate as I would like to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: On the issue of the clarity that has been given about the €15 billion, I welcome the statements by Senators. We will have an opportunity to debate it in greater detail in the House tomorrow. However, it is important that there is appropriate honesty during the debate. If we do not deal with the €15 billion adjustment over a four year period, if we do not have a four year strategy that...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: The Order of Business is No. 1, statements on the macro-economic and fiscal outlook, to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business and to conclude not later than 3 p.m., if not previously concluded, on which spokespersons may speak for 12 minutes and all other Senators for eight minutes and Senators may share time, by agreement of the House, with the Minister to be called upon ten...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: Many Senators, including Senators Twomey, Norris, Alex White, O'Donovan, Keaveney, Quinn, Walsh, Leyden, Harris, McDonald, Buttimer, Ó Brolcháin, Bacik, MacSharry, Healy Eames, Hanafin, Mullen and Bradford, mentioned this afternoon's statements on the child care inquiry report and the wider issues involved. The proposal of Senator Bradford that the debate be kept ongoing should be given...

Seanad: Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (28 Oct 2010)

Dan Boyle: I am tempted to ask for a deferment of my speaking slot. There is not a lot with which I can disagree in terms of what has just been said. However, there are a number of realities. As a country we have come through a period of irrational exuberance. It has not just been about the private sector or public sector or even the political class. I remember an article written by the editor of...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Dan Boyle: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion re report of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Sport, Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs entitled, 20 Year Strategy on the Irish Language 2010–2030, to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business and conclude not later than 6.45 p.m., if not previously concluded, on which spokespersons may speak for 12 minutes and all other...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Dan Boyle: Senator Fitzgerald asked several questions which were followed through by other Senators. She asked about the lack of legislation on our weekly clár. It is a matter of ongoing concern that we cannot free up legislation but I am confident we will be able to do so in the next number of weeks. We have two Bills on our Order Paper due for Committee Stage, namely, the Ombudsman (Amendment)...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Dan Boyle: In 1980 I was offered a place in University College Cork to undertake an arts degree. I did not qualify for grants and the fee for the course was IR£3,000. Thirty years on if people believe the registration fee is anywhere close to the economic value of a course tuition fee, they are not living in the real world. There is heavy subsidisation of third level education. That must be the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Dan Boyle: It would help if the Senator's party had a view on whether we should have registration fees.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Dan Boyle: It is welcome that we will have a debate on education in general, including third level and primary, in the coming weeks during which such views can be expressed. Senator Fitzgerald also spoke about the proposed referendum on children's rights. We had a debate on the report released last week. To be fair to the Minister of State, he made a relatively definitive comment on the matter when he...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Dan Boyle: The necessary work must and will be done to allow a referendum to be held early in the new year. We should all dedicate ourselves to that task. Senator O'Toole raised the issue of the Croke Park agreement and the HSE redundancy package offered, on which Senators Feeney, Norris, Harris and Buttimer followed up. Some Members have questioned why the HSE redundancy package is to be implemented...