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Seanad: Order of Business (5 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We have never forgiven them in Connacht.

Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Mr. O'Toole would have no chance under these proposals.

Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Like everyone else, I welcome the three former Senators. One of the things that disappoints me about the report is that it does not recommend that Senators, once elected, would retain their titles, as is the case in America. I cannot understand why that very important, fundamental issue was omitted. That would give one the respect, dignity and status one requires. God knows, it is...

Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I was told it would not get involved in the Seanad referendum because it was not a political body. I asked the obvious question which all Senators have on their lips, namely why it had a nomination. What is the point of it having a nomination? That was not the only nominating body from which I got a lukewarm response. There were a number of other nominating bodies at that time that did...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: No.

Seanad: Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (7 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We wish to raise a number of issues relating to some of the proposals contained in the Bill. I am not sure whether Senator Wilson wishes to make the main contribution on it. Schedule 1 states a person shall be disqualified if he or she is adjudged a bankrupt. We have serious issues with this. The rule relating to bankrupts serving in the Oireachtas has been removed so why is the provision...

Seanad: Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (7 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We are speaking on the Bill.

Seanad: Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (7 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: It is a matter for the Chair to decide whether that is relevant.

Seanad: Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (7 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: On a point of order, notwithstanding what has been said by another Member, our party is not opposing the Minister of State's proposal.

Seanad: Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (7 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We would like hear the Minister of State's response on a specific issue. With all due respect to other Senators' contributions, we want to hear what the Minister has to say because we will be making a further intervention based on his response.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Last Friday, I attended a briefing by a cardiologist, Dr. Donal Kelly, in Sligo General Hospital. He is campaigning for the provision of a catheterisation laboratory in Sligo General Hospital. It would address the needs of those with cardiac problems in an area with a population of some 276,000. That excludes large portions of County Donegal, primarily because there is currently a...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that the Minister for Health comes to the House today to address the issue of the approval of a CAT laboratory facility at Sligo General Hospital.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The cardiologist to whom I referred in Sligo Regional Hospital is Dr. Donal Murray, not Dr. Donal Kelly. I am slightly embarrassed that I did not get his name right.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am grateful for the Leader's response - not only for the empathy he has shown with regard to an issue that obviously has an impact on his own part of the country, but also for his intention to communicate directly with the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, on this issue. Therefore, I will not press the amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: That will make it into the Guinness Book of Records. I wish to express my deepest sympathy to Una Davis and the Davis family on the loss of a former colleague of mine, Derek Davis. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. I first worked with Derek when we were both assigned by RTE to the 1980 Olympic Games, when I spent over a month with him in Moscow and got to know him quite well. He was a very...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We have no need to apologise.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: On a point of order, I have every respect for Senator O'Brien and I agree with everything she has said. However, the Taoiseach, who represents this country, should not be apologising for-----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: -----the heinous actions of a group of people who took the lives of innocent people, including an innocent boy in my part of the country. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anamacha. We do not have anything to apologise for.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We have everything to do to condemn what it did, unequivocally and unambiguously. Even present-day Sinn Féin has stated that was an unjustifiable act.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: There was €26 million of an increase.