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Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: ——-when the two individuals Deputy Brendan Howlin and former Deputy Jim Higgins, played a starring role in improvements in the Garda Síochána and the standing of the Garda Síochána within the body politic because——

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: ——-confidence in that force and the efficiencies and procedures it follows are fundamental to a functioning democracy. I regret that the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, with respect to the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, is not present to deal with this specific issue given he has personalised the debate in this regard. Notwithstanding the furore created by the Minister in regard...

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: It is spin.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: This did not involve public disclosure.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: Which is what was done.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: Show the person the door.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: That example is not germane to the debate.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: On a point of order, on what subject? We should know the agenda.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: It is appropriate that we be informed of the item for discussion because this is quite different from the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: I support the call for a debate on education in which I ask the Minister to address one aspect, namely, the change in the allocation of pupil-teacher ratios in private secondary schools. It seems to me that this is establishing a differential for which the reasons are not given nor the policy explained. Is the Government setting itself against private education? These private secondary...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: I join in the condemnation of the killing of an innocent man, Mr. Shane Geoghegan, in Limerick. The reality is that it is only when someone innocent is killed as a result of gangland criminality that there is an expression of outrage and demands for action. The reality is——

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: I join Senators Fitzgerald, Harris and others in condemning the killing of Mr. Shane Geoghegan in Limerick, who was an innocent man. There is an attitude of "Good riddance" when people are killed who are involved in inter-gang warfare, and it has not been taken as seriously by the police, the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform or successive Ministers. Deputy Willie O'Dea...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: President Václav Klaus said: "Because of our communist past, we Czechs are extremely sensitive to the idea of freedom and democracy", and he draws certain conclusions from that. In his thinking Václav Klaus is caught in a time warp. We drew different lessons from our experience of, as Senator Quinn would say, a "Big Brother", and that has worked to our advantage. We joined a Community...

Seanad: Criminal Assets Bureau Annual Report 2007: Statements (12 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: I thank the Minister for presenting this report to the Seanad in person. At the beginning of his contribution, he stated: "I am sure we all remember only too well the dark days preceding the formation of the bureau, when it appeared the State was impotent in tackling the menace of the drugs gangs and their murderous associates." I wonder what has changed? The situation has greatly...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: I second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by Senator Fitzgerald. Let me refer to the cutbacks in the budget affecting the Irish Human Rights Commission and the Equality Authority. The cutbacks proposed are 26% and 43%, respectively, whereas the allocation to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform is reduced by 4%. I question the motivation of the Minister for...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: ——he has prioritised the fight against crime. The Minister cannot slide so easily out of this. He cannot undermine entirely the effectiveness of these bodies by making these disproportionate cutbacks. We have obligations under the Constitution, EU law and international conventions, and these are the bodies that ensure that the State and State bodies uphold the principles to which it...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: It is more partisan——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: I ask the Deputy Leader——

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: ——if he agrees with that analysis and with the cutbacks in those two bodies.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: I refer to a speech delivered this day last year. I will read out a few excerpts from it. It states: It is wonderful to realise that there is a new generation in Ireland which has never faced the hardship of high levels of unemployment, or . . . the bleak depression of forced emigration . . . As a people we will resist reckless economic policies or inappropriate fiscal actions[.]