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Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: The Senator should have run herself.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: If the Senator does not get elected.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: They are wonderful when one gets elected.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: Excellent.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: I add to what Senator Norris and others said about the Seanad. In the next ten days the new constituencies are likely to be announced. The next Dáil will have eight fewer Deputies as it goes from 166 to 158. That will concentrate the minds of those in the other House regarding the future of this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: It will be a great consolation to many, particularly Labour Party Deputies in constituencies where they have two Deputies at the moment and there will be only one subsequently.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: That is a reality of life and we need to be realistic about this. We know that politics has its ups and downs.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: It would be worth having a discussion on the Seanad at this point. All the Members of this Seanad have performed extraordinarily well under your chairmanship, a Chathaoirligh, and under the leadership of the Leader and the opposition leaders. I returned to this House ten years ago and this Seanad is doing an excellent job. It will prove itself successful to the extent that the people will...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: I hope they are implemented to a greater extent than the consolidated version of the treaties, particularly the Lisbon treaty and the role of the Oireachtas in this regard. I was a member of a committee chaired by the Minister of State, Deputy Perry, which published a report on 23 May 2008. I know the Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, has been very supportive of this. That committee...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: The Senator is undermining his own Taoiseach.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: The Taoiseach should introduce German classes into the Seanad. I thoroughly recommend them.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: Will the Leader arrange for the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, to come to the House to consider the broken promises made in the general election of 2011? I refer specifically to the 50 cent charge for medical card holders, introduced in 2010 because of the financial conditions at the time. The charge, capped at €10 per month, brings in revenue of approximately €27 million....

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: Yes. I want the Leader to arrange a debate with the Minister for Health to outline to the House the reasons for his backtracking and somersaulting on these commitments and the betrayal of the electorate. There will not be a by-election shortly in any of the constituencies in the South, but if there were, it would present a great opportunity for the Government to put its mandate to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: Only for my party's support on the fiscal treaty it would have be beaten because there was certainly an opportunity for the people to revolt in that regard.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: That is very interesting. Would the Leader like to make a bet on that?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: I second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by my colleague, Senator Thomas Byrne. In regard to No. 17 on the Order Paper, Registration of Wills Bill 2011, will the Leader ask the Minister to reconsider the Government's legislative intentions in this regard in the light of the Private Members' Bill introduced by Deputy Liam Twomey, a former Member of this House, in the Dáil last...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: The Leader will be expanding.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: The Leader might have overlooked it, but I have been waiting patiently for a response to my question on the Registration of Wills Bill 2011.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Shatter, and his officials to the House.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Jun 2012)

Terry Leyden: I am sorry to interrupt the Senator, but his time is up.