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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I compliment him and the Green Party Ministers in Government. It was a very good one and I was satisfied to support it as a Senator. By way of illustration, I had intended to ask that the former Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan, who has resigned from the Government, would be invited to the House in order that I could compliment him on and discuss...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: ——the participation of the Green Party in government. Its members have done the State a great service. I was delighted to serve in this House with the former Deputy Leader, Senator Boyle, as well as Senators Ó Brolcháin and Dearey.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I simply make the point that they were great colleagues. I was delighted to work with them and I wish them well.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I would like to say more about them if I got the chance.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: That is not necessarily the case.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: The Seanad can still sit after the general election is called.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: Yes, the Seanad can meet after the general election is called.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I wish to clarify a point of Senator Fitzgerald. The House will sit until the Seanad election is held, which will most probably be on 4 May next.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: Yes, I am merely providing a clarification.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: However, I wish to correct the inaccuracy uttered by Senator Fitzgerald. Senator Alex White is a poacher turned gamekeeper because he used the Order of Business very well to promote his election to Dáil Éireann. Now he wants a new challenge-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: The Cathaoirleach has been extremely flexible and I hope he will go forward as a candidate for election to the next Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: The fact that the House is sitting today - this point relates to Seanad reform - and doing the State some, and hopefully great, service and that the Dáil is prepared to sit tomorrow night in the event of recommendations put forward by Members being accepted is a mark of the tremendous respect people have for this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I hope that recommendations put forward in this House will be accepted. The Seanad is embedded in the 1937 Constitution and has a role to play. The committees formed within the Houses are not contemplated within the Constitution. In that context, I am of the view that the Seanad has an extremely positive contribution to make. The responsibilities of many of the quangos that have been...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: -----and is going forward for election to the Dáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I hope that he and Senators Corrigan and Alex White will be successful in their endeavours. I thank Jimmy Walsh, who covers the proceedings of the House for The Irish Times, and his editor. I welcome the representatives from the media who are in the Gallery.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: We will not pass them.

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

Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Brady, and wish her every success in her re-election to the Dáil. She has played a very important role in her position and was involved in the fair deal scheme for nursing homes. She has allayed the fears of thousands of elderly people. The scheme has worked very well and I am sure the Minister of State would agree that it has been a great...

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

Terry Leyden: It was a radical party. I was in the Dáil with Tomás Mac Giolla and many members of the Workers' Party. Some people walked out of the party and left a large bill. Some people sent letters to Moscow looking for money for the party. I will not name names because I do not want to-----

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

Terry Leyden: It would be unfair. I did not refer to specific people. I met a man who had the typewriter to type the letter and he told me the story. I have parliamentary privilege.