Results 4,901-4,920 of 12,886 for speaker:Paul Coghlan
- Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: With the indulgence of the Chair, may I ask the Minister for clarification on the dedicated call line for councillors? Will he assure us that this will not be a call centre but a direct line to an official dealing with water services, similar to the way I can call officials in the local authority?
- Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: I want to talk to someone I can relate to.
- Seanad: Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (4 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: I thank the Minister for his reply. That is a vital service.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: Unfortunately, there has been much unjustified criticism of NAMA from someone opposite. I welcome today's announcement that NAMA has met its first major target of €7.5 billion of redemption of senior bonds by the end of 2013. It has an additional €3 billion in cash. This highlights NAMA's progress in obtaining a good return for the taxpayer. It further boosts confidence in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: The Leas-Chathaoirleach was over-indulgent and lenient with the preceding speaker. I will not go down that road except to agree that to indicate who an individual is by saying he or she is notorious by virtue of the defence he or she has been asked to give to somebody, is totally out of order.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: They are not the Leas-Chathaoirleach's wounds. I totally support the Chair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: I support Senator Bacik's call regarding the Smithwick tribunal report, if I have not done so already. I think I did last week. The judge and his team put a tremendous amount of work into that, not just the report but everything they did over the last number of years. It is unfortunate that some people who eventually came to them in private refused to submit themselves to be tested and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: Senator Wilson is a most upright gentleman. I would never suggest anything other than that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: I thank the Chair for his guidance, as ever. Because of that we need something further there. I propose, as I have done before, establishing some suitably located joint offices as an aid to the Garda and the PSNI in policing that allegedly difficult area on both sides. There are buildings along the Border that might be a little bit on one side or the other. That does not matter. Such...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: There is so much going on in that territory such as diesel laundering, cigarette smuggling and many other illegal activities. That would greatly assist them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: Then I should finish.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: Recommendations.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: Wrong constitutionally.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: I am trying to be as helpful as ever.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that No. 15, the Valuation (Amendment) Bill 2013, be taken before No. 1 today. I join with Senator Sean D. Barrett in welcoming former British Prime Minister, John Major, to Ireland. I agree thoroughly with him that it was a worthwhile account which he gave at Iveagh House last night of his role leading up to the Downing Street Declaration and...
- Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) Bill 2013: First Stage (12 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the provisions of the Valuation Act 2001, to provide for the treatment of rates for parking spaces in retail centres, in the interests of the common good, and to provide for related matters.
- Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) Bill 2013: First Stage (12 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: Next Monday, 16 December.
- Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: It must be a very special county.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: He might not want to hear from the Senator
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2013)
Paul Coghlan: Has the Senator forwarded it to the Garda?