Results 4,241-4,260 of 5,046 for speaker:Paschal Mooney

Seanad: Establishment of Electoral Commission: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Rate collectors went around a county and were able to identify who was living where.

Seanad: Establishment of Electoral Commission: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The register was reasonably accurate; in fact, it was nearly always accurate. Senator Ó Domhnaill spoke about a reduction in the membership of political parties. There was a tradition in Fianna Fáil, and I am sure the same was true for the Fine Gael and Labour parties, that when the draft registers came out annually, a special meeting was held. People trawled through the register...

Seanad: Establishment of Electoral Commission: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The rate collectors have gone but, in addition, the membership of political parties and their proactive nature at local level have greatly diminished over the past couple of decades. That is the problem we are left with, so how does one address it? I am firmly of the view that local authorities should continue to be involved; otherwise, the new electoral commission will have to be provided...

Seanad: Establishment of Electoral Commission: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The voice of reason.

Seanad: Establishment of Electoral Commission: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: They do not have to do that.

Seanad: Establishment of Electoral Commission: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Why not take it out of the local authority?

Seanad: Establishment of Electoral Commission: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: One would spend more.

Seanad: Establishment of Electoral Commission: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: That is accepted.

Seanad: Establishment of Electoral Commission: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Our colleague in the other House, Deputy Willie Penrose, published a Bill recently to reduce the time to discharge bankruptcy from three years to one year. Last weekend at the Labour Party conference, and subsequently, the leader of the Labour Party and Tánaiste, Deputy Joan Burton, endorsed this initiative by her colleague. Speaking with Deputy Penrose it is obvious that this has...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Pistols at dawn.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: He has set his face against it.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am aware of that.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: It is not impacting on the people who need it.

Seanad: Report of British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly on Cross-Border Police Co-operation and Illicit Trade: Statements (10 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I will enthusiastically endorse the recommendations of the BIPA committee on cross-Border policing co-operation on illicit trade. Due recognition has been paid, and rightly so, to our friend and colleague, the Government Whip, Senator Paul Coghlan. This is an important report because it focuses on an issue that those of us who live in the...

Seanad: Report of British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly on Cross-Border Police Co-operation and Illicit Trade: Statements (10 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am delighted that the Senator and his colleagues at the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly have focused on this issue. I hope it will reinforce the Government's commitment which I do not doubt for one moment to try to eliminate this problem. We will never wipe out smuggling because it has been ongoing in the Border counties since God was a boy because of the various complexities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector and Annual Report 2013: Teagasc (10 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I have three very short questions. About two years ago members of this committee attended the Green Week in Berlin and one of the stands that impressed me a great deal was about scientific advances that had been made in improving yield. Is Ireland at the cutting edge of that technology that ensures that we have the maximum yield from dairy herds, particularly in light of the ending of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Has any of the delegates heard of places such as Clogh, Muckalee, Moneenroe and Conahy? They are real communities and not that far from Castlecomer, County Kilkenny. Castlecomer would have been the central point for communities living in these areas to access services. They are real communities. I find it extraordinary that Bus Éireann states it is not prepared to reveal plans to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Does that mean that in all or most cases they will not carry free travel pass passengers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Expressway Services: Bus Eireann and NTA (11 Mar 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The Government is not providing enough money for social services, although it promotes itself as looking after rural Ireland.