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- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Amendments Nos. 18 and 25 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Is the amendment being pressed?
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Amendments Nos. 23 and 24 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Will Senator Norris formally second the amendment?
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I am so pleased Senator Norris is adhering to strict protocol on these matters.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: We are also shaking our heads on this side.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: We are also shaking our heads on this side.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, to the House once again and thank her for her response. My friend and colleague, Senator Wilson, will respond to her response in further detail. I also commend Senator Wilson on his initiative in this regard. This is an issue which has cropped up informally over the past number of years. The fact it has been brought forward in a legislative...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I endorse everything that has been said and wish Bernard every happiness in his retirement. He will be a loss around this House. We will miss the various exchanges about the football. Leitrim would not come anywhere close to Dublin's success but Bernard was always aware of how Leitrim was doing in the various championships and leagues. It was always great to have a chat with him about...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: This is a very sensitive subject for politicians on which even to engage in a debate, as the Minister will be aware. I admire Senator David Norris's forthrightness and political courage, not for the first time, on this issue, but one has to tread like one is walking on egg shells when one talks in the Houses of the Oireachtas about the specifics of the amendments which, in general, are about...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: -----yet the public did not bite. About three or four years ago The Irish Timescarried out an attitudinal behavioural survey which was quite extensive and I vividly remember one of the key questions.All of the questions offered respondents a selection of answers labelled A, B or C. One of the questions was whether readers believed politicians' pay had increased, decreased or stayed the same...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: It was a small amount but, as Senator Norris pointed out, it affected pensions. I will always defend the right of people in these Houses to a pension. The question of how that pension is calculated should be a matter for outside agencies. It is important to remind people that the pay and conditions of politicians were not set by politicians. We need to go back to the infamous benchmarking...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I do not want toing and froing, that is not the way debate operates in the House. I would prefer to allow the Minister to respond.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: That is why I do not wish to extend the discussion because there are relevant and pertinent issues to be raised.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I am not sure it is relevant to the amendment.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Amendments Nos. 3 and 4 are out of order.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Is the Minister asking for a correction?
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: I will direct the clerk to make that correction.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)
Paschal Mooney: Amendments Nos. 17 and 18 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.