Results 4,221-4,240 of 4,773 for speaker:Paudie Coffey
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Tenants' rights were enhanced by the last Government. Senator Gavan has made an incorrect statement.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Week after week Fine Gael says it is coming up with a strategy that amounts to a pig in a poke. One thing that the Minister of State and his colleague, the Minister, have not said at any point is that they will legislate for rent certainty. It is generous of our colleagues in civic engagement to say if we give that commitment then they will work with us.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: It is the landlords who are to blame.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: The State has bought houses.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: The State has bought houses.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: The statements that the Senator has put on record are incorrect.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: The State has bought houses.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Local authorities and voluntary housing bodies have bought houses.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I had 7,500 votes all the same.
- Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (29 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: The statements that the Senator has put on record are incorrect. The State has bought houses.
- Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I apologise also as I was not present for the earlier part of the debate but I listened to much of it. There is no family that is not touched by emigration in this country and no party or politician for that matter has a monopoly on the views of the diaspora. We should give credit where it is due. The Taoiseach appointed a Minister of State with responsibility for the diaspora who is...
- Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I ask Senator Norris to move the motion.
- Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: It has been agreed by the group leaders this will be taken as a Seanad debate and I ask the Senator to proceed.
- Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Five minutes each.
- Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I remind the Senator not to name individuals who are not in the House.
- Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I must ask the Senator to conclude.
- Seanad: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Motion (30 Nov 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Is the Senator seconding the Fianna Fáil amendment?
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)
Paudie Coffey: Next Tuesday.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2016)
Paudie Coffey: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2016)
Paudie Coffey: I thank the Cathaoirleach for taking a very important Commencement matter and the Minister of State for making time in her very busy schedule. Cardiac care for patients in the south east has been an issue of concern for quite some time. I have raised many times with the Minister of State and her predecessors the issue of inequality of access to cardiac care for patients in the south-east...