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Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Abolish the Fianna Fáil party.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I have no problem with that. The people will decide. I ask Senator Leyden-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: The Leader can ask the Minister to explain the appointments to the House. I will follow up by saying-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: The Minister should explain to us how those political appointments were made. During my time on Letterkenny Town Council, Fianna Fáil took every position.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: At the last election-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I will conclude by saying that-----

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: When the new council was formed after the last election, we offered Fianna Fáil the chairmanship and the vice chairmanship because it was in the minority.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Fianna Fáil refused the offer-----

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I am not prepared, as someone else was due to lead, but I do not need notes to answer the motion or defend the Government's role. Instead of raising the issues Senator O'Brien did today or last week, he should have been considering them throughout the past decade.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: There are two issues to this matter - pay rates for gardaí and rural stations.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Yes. If the Senator will not interrupt, I will continue. We cannot deny the statistics we have read on the proliferation of police stations compared with other modern economies. In the UK, excluding Scotland, for example, there are 1,600 police stations. We had almost 700 at one point, nearly half of the number in the UK, excluding Scotland, with its population of more than 55 million....

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: That is not a matter for Fianna Fáil and the people will decide.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: My father-in-law - God rest him - was a rural garda for many years and my wife was born in a Garda station, along with many of her brothers and sisters. The day is gone when a garda lived in a station, working for almost 24 hours a day, 365 days in the year. That was the way policing worked in this country but we have moved on. I stand to be corrected but I do not believe a garda lives in...

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Apologise.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Fianna Fáil was in government.

Seanad: Confidence in Minister for Justice and Equality and Defence: Motion (27 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I suggest to Senator Marc MacSharry that he telephone Pádraig Flynn to ask him for advice on the roads in Sligo. Perhaps he could provide some useful information, given that he made a fair fist of it in Mayo at the expense of counties such as Donegal. Mayo received millions for roads that went nowhere while counties such as Donegal had potholes filled occasionally. I call for a debate on...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I welcome the Minister of State. The issue of property tax is an emotive one at such a difficult time in the economy, but there are many myths and rumours about. One that keeps being trotted out by certain people is that we pay stamp duty but no one else in Europe does. In all of Europe people pay stamp duty or transaction tax on their properties. I have researched the matter and...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I would like to make one more point. I do not like voting for a property tax if it leads to hardship for people. A reasonable majority of people know the difficulties that we are in and are quite prepared to pay, and 40% of properties in Donegal would not have to pay more than ¤90. When Donegal people compare that sum with what their cousins in Strabane and Derry are paying, they will...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Should we abolish it?