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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: Anyone in a rush home for Christmas or to do his or her shopping should do it later.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: Senators de Búrca, Leyden and many others also expressed their views on a listening Government and a caring Minister with regard to water charges. The Government listens and because we are a consensus Government, nothing is set in stone. As Shakespeare once said, "To discuss is not to agree." If the Government puts forward certain proposals at certain times, surely it is our job as...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: It is not a case of listening to ourselves and nobody else. The reason we are in Government so long is that we listen to the people. The Opposition is included in that.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: Senators de Búrca, Bacik, White——

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: Many Senators this morning congratulated the Minister of State, Deputy Brendan Smith, on the child care subvention.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: As I have stated on many occasions, our Ministers or Ministers of State are listening when proposals come from the Houses or a particular sector of industry. As Senator Corrigan, Mary M. White and others stated this morning, the Minister of State should be congratulated on his direct communication with the people affected by the legislation. I hope all portfolio holders take this great...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: These people deserve support, which I know comes from all sides of the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: We congratulate the Minister of State. Senators Healy Eames and Donohoe called for a debate on education and there is no difficulty with that, as I stated yesterday. I will pass on the views of Senator Healy Eames regarding warning students in this festive time of Christmas.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: Please God, there will be no repeat of experiences from the past few weeks over the Christmas period. Senators Mary M. White, Leyden and Norris called for an all-Ireland debate on the economy and I have no difficulty in this taking place. There have been various views on the 12.5% corporation tax, which is the one factor that makes Ireland seriously attractive. It has been a significant...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: Many of my colleagues from Northern Ireland, whom I know and work with, are working and operating down here, making the south of Ireland their headquarters. If this is so, they are obliged to pay only 12.5% corporation tax. The same applies to the multinationals now using Ireland as a base for right across Europe. Ireland forms the headquarters for many companies with regard to research...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: Colleagues seem to have an agenda. I wish the Taoiseach well in his deliberations over the next few days.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: He is a hard-working, dedicated, decent public representative. It does not behove us well to say anything else. Nobody else is as committed to Ireland or has done as much for the country——

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: ——as Bertie Ahern.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: Once we go outside of Ireland we realise this. We may not like it but it is the truth. If we want to go down the road of who gave evidence, and who made U-turns in giving evidence——

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: ——we could speak about many others on the other side of the House. We do not act in such a way.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: That is the great quality of being a member of Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: We keep a level on this.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: On matters relating to the tribunal, it would have been better if the media and everyone else could have withdrawn and left it to the eminent judges appointed to make decisions. They are the professionals in the field.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: Senators Hanafin and Hannigan called on the Minister to consider the issue of high mobile telephone charges. I will pass the matter to the appropriate Minister, and the issue is the responsibility of ComReg and the communications joint committee. Those who are members of that committee might take up the issue with the chair of that committee and see if they can get an urgent debate on the...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2007: Motion for Earlier Signature (19 Dec 2007)

Donie Cassidy: I move: That pursuant to subsection 2° of section 2 of Article 25 of the Constitution, Seanad Éireann concurs with the Government in a request to the President to sign the Social Welfare Bill 2007 on a date which is earlier than the fifth day after the date on which the Bill shall have been presented to her. A number of the provisions in the Social Welfare Bill 2007 are scheduled to come...