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Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: "News at One" can do it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: The Leader certainly did.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: Perhaps I could be of some help in that regard. As I said last week, we now have a Minister or former Minister being hung out to dry every week and nobody knows what going on. I do not know what is going on in the area of education. I have restrained myself from discussing it for the last year but my sabbatical is finished. What is happening in the area of third level education? We might get...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: RTE can do it without any bother.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: The Senators are not exactly jumping to their feet to defend it. I am, however, prepared to discuss that instead of the Department of Education and Science's statement of strategy for 2003-05 that we are taking at 6 p.m. this evening.

Seanad: Decentralisation Programme: Statements. (21 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: I welcome the debate because this is a crucial issue. I do not blame any Government but, in many ways, the west is almost a wasteland, it is dying on its feet. I made this point last week about a number of towns. Kilbeggan and Ballinrobe are both without a hotel, although they had one previously. I travel the country more than most Members and always look for the old, traditional local hotel...

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: I appreciate and support Senator Fitzgerald's views on most issues but the most shocking thing I heard from him was that he sees this as a subsidy for the middle classes. That is outrageous.

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: Perhaps he did not mean that. He added the phrase "upper classes".

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: I wish to share my time with Senator Ross.

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: Every teacher, garda, nurse or other middle class parent I knew had education policies to pay for the education of their children. They scrimped, scraped and sacrificed to put them through college. They did more. Some sold their end of career gratuities to pay for their children in college. I know one man who took a career break from his job. He had three children at college and could not...

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: I know.

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: I know the Senator did not say it. However, it would be wrong to put them back into that situation. We should leave the middle classes out of it. The reason I am worried is that the people who had made provision for their children before the free fees were introduced liquidated that provision and used the money for other things. Those people are scared by the current prospects.

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: Deputy Healy-Rae will be sticking his chest out.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: Only 20 minutes ago, as I walked down the corridor, I complimented Deputy Healy-Rae on the spring in his step and the glint in his eye that I had not seen for a year.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: I told him he was back. The old insurance policy is worthwhile.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: Kerry people look out for each other in such situations, as I know my colleague, Senator Coghlan, would be aware.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: At least I have a price. On a number of occasions we have had discussions in the House and heard a number of presentations by the various farmer groups on agricultural prices. They have talked about the discrepancy between farmgate prices and what the consumer pays. I have said at least three times in the House that there are cartels at both the farmgate and consumer ends. Those buying on the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: That is another one for us.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: That is right.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 May 2003)

Joe O'Toole: Each day our business begins with the Clerk of the Seanad reading a prayer in Irish and English. Is it possible to have the prayer read in one language only? It is not necessary to read the prayer twice in both languages.