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Seanad: Master Plan for the City of Dublin: Motion (24 Jun 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am not a bit sorry for them after last weekend.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Sorry, I was to second that amendment. I did not realise the Senator had proposed the amendment. I am very sorry.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by Senator Craughwell. As the Leader will be aware, we have repeatedly raised this issue since the time of the original debate with the Minister, Deputy Burton, in 2012. Her comments at that time will haunt her and her party into the general election. She said she would be opposed to introducing this measure until there was a...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I support my friend and colleague Senator Mary White in her impassioned plea to the Minister. I had intended proposing an amendment to the Order of Business and I would like to do so in her name and the name of our group. I propose that No. 67, motion No. 16 on the Order Paper, be taken before No. 1 today. I support those Members of the House who referred to yesterday's disgraceful and...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I refer to people who were innocently and inoffensively going about legitimate protest.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: After that, Members of this House who attempted to bring friends and neighbours who had attended what was a peaceful protest into this House were denied access and yet there were people yesterday, who I can only describe as anarchists, who were actually in this House earlier. We saw them coming back out. The saddest aspect of it all-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: -----was that there were young children present yesterday and some of them were laughing at the fact that a cone was thrown at that poor unfortunate garda who was injured. There was a left-wing academic-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I will finish on this because it is so important. This is about a threat to democracy and the democratic institutions. A left-wing academic was quoted in The Irish Times today as saying that legitimate protest was quite valid. There was nothing legitimate about what happened yesterday afternoon and I wish that man would realise that he would need to look into his own heart and not defend...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I do not want to interrupt the Senator, but a debate on this will take place on Report Stage.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I thank the Senator. That is a matter for the House to decide, as she said.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: So the Senator is agnostic on this.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Amendment No. 6 is in the name of Senator Power. Amendments Nos. 6 and 12 form a composite proposal and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: For the information of the House, my understanding is that it will be a matter for Members to table amendments to the Government amendments on Report Stage. In other words, when the Government amendments are published, if Members wish to amend the Government proposals on Report Stage, they can table amendments to the Government amendments.The text of the Bill is still the same. As soon as...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I understand what the Senator is saying but it is a matter for the Department, rather than the House, to publish the amendments and I presume the Minister, in goodwill, will ensure the amendments are published in sufficient time to allow Members to table amendments to the Government amendments if they so wish. Otherwise, this is not proper procedure because it would not permit this House to...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The deadline is governed by when the Bill is ordered to be taken and debated on Report Stage. The business is ordered accordingly.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I support everything my colleague, Senator Michael Comiskey, has said in regard to the Seán Mac Diarmada cottage. When I looked at the photographs in the newspaper of the Pearse cottage in Galway I thought it was the Mac Diarmada cottage, such is the similarity between the two. Without wishing to appear partisan, the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Simon Harris,...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Paschal Mooney: If there had been a referendum here along similar lines, the Government of the day would be trumpeting this across Europe that the people had spoken.