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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eoghan Harris: If Fine Gael wants to fix this and to do itself some good at the polls, Fine Gael and the Labour Party should give an undertaking that they will not carry out these practices when they are in government.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eoghan Harris: That is good. Then the Leader has some pressure on him. I endorse the remarks of Senator Norris about taking the European Court of Human Rights issue out of the public domain coming up to a general election. It is bad news all round. There should be general agreement to park this away from a general election. Senator O'Toole is correct in his point about this being an endorsement of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Of necessity, any question I ask the Leader has to be rhetorical since his ability to do anything about any question I ask is limited. Is he happy with the way we are doing business on the Finance Bill? I think I know the answer. I am of an age and I am around long enough not to care about anything much except authority. Confucius said the things that mattered in a state were an army, food...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: It is significant that all of us on the Independent side, ranging from the left to the centre to the right, are agreed that it is a squalid spectacle. The Bill should have gone through properly.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: It should have gone through properly for the sake of the people. I warn the incoming Government to calm down those who are dizzy with success because it is in a state of semi-hysteria. We are going to have some kind of rainbow Government. What is their panic if the panic produces the kind of political meltdown that allows the armed doctrine to dominate the Opposition in the coming Dáil....

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: I thank Senator Quinn for sharing time and welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Áine Brady. In common with Senator Quinn, I also wish to register the extraordinary extempore performance of the Minister for Finance at the outset of this debate and to ask myself rhetorically whether Fianna Fáil has not made a dreadful mistake. That said, having acknowledged the Minister's extraordinary...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Some of them were more forgettable than others.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: If one can get it from Moscow one will get it from Europe.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: I welcome the change in the universal social charge. Fortunately, I do not have to go for election and therefore I can speak for a group that does not have a big populist push behind it. I refer to sole traders. The reduction for medical card holders is reasonable but the increased 10% for the self-employed and sole traders on incomes over €100,000 is unfair because they are the group...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Well said.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Report and Final Stages (29 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: I was one of the strongest supporters of the civil partnership Bill, so much so I was put up on one website as Gay-Friendly Senator of the Year. While I would like to say I unequivocally support this recommendation, to do so would be hypocritical. I resent the way this Bill has been rushed through this House. It is not the Minister's fault but of those who chivvied and worked up a big...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Report and Final Stages (29 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: The responsibility for rushing this legislation largely resides with the Labour Party. It postures as the progressive friend of the gay community and yet allows a Bill like this to be rushed through with various rights steamrolled over. Shame on the Labour Party. Shame on them. As it behaves now, so it will behave in any future Government. If Fine Gael finds itself in government with the...