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- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: I am very sorry. Please forgive me. I am kind of losing the plot here.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Thank you.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: We are discussing section 1, which concerns the Title of the Bill.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: There will be other opportunities to discuss the Bill. I want to get through section 1.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: I ask the Senator to forgive me for not calling on him earlier.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Are we on section 2?
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: The contribution I made earlier actually referred to section 2 but we were on section 1 at the time so I want to apologise for that slip. At the same time, I hope that the sponsors of the Bill would take account of the remarks I made. The Minister of State might have a view to express as well.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: I am grateful to Senator Zappone and am glad she clarified her earlier remarks. I did not for one moment think that she was in any way motivated by a desire to stifle debate but it is important to clarify the context in which she made the comment. This is a drafting issue; perhaps the Senators' advisors did not take account of the point that I made, that there are parts of the world where...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: It was not personal.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: As colleagues on this side of the House will confirm, Fianna Fáil is totally supportive, as is the Government side, of realistic Seanad reform. In fact, some of us managed to persuade the Leader who started off from a position where he wanted to abolish the House to take a policy decision that he would seek to have it reformed. We have had an internal debate within Fianna Fáil on...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Proper order. It is time we got rid of them. They have won too many All-Irelands.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: The Senator is not too far wrong so far.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: And the Labour Party.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Excuse me, Senator.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: I say to the Leader that flattery gets one everywhere.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: The Senator cannot do it.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: She said it was easy to get elected, not that it was easy to get a nomination.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paschal Mooney: I am grateful to the Minister of State for his reply and I am pleased that the Bill will form part of the wider debate on the Seanad. I am particularly pleased, given the Minister of State's background in both Houses, that he will be central to this debate. While I do not wish to be glib, one would expect a citizen living outside the State to automatically hold a passport, as he or she would...