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Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Terry Leyden: Give an inch and they take a mile.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Terry Leyden: If we pass the legislation.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Terry Leyden: If.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Terry Leyden: Senator Bacik should not be so presumptuous.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Terry Leyden: Senator Bacik hopes it will be passed.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: I second the Leader of the Opposition’s proposed amendment to the Order of Business. I also wish our colleague, Senator David Norris, good luck in his cancer treatment. As I was away last week attending a Council of Europe plenary session, I did not have an opportunity to welcome him back to the Seanad, to which he has made an enormous contribution. The people will respond to this...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: We need the Senator to save the Seanad. My comments were made on that basis.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: Senator David Norris looks to be in rude good health and looks great. As I was away last week attending the plenary session of the Council of Europe last week, I was not in a position to ask the Leader for a debate on the disclosures made in the Anglo Irish Bank tapes which are receiving enormous coverage around the world. It was embarrassing when in Strasbourg last week to see the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: The truth will prevail.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: There was no axis of collusion between Anglo Irish Bank and the late Brian Lenihan or the former Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. It seems to have been missed that in 2008 the Taoiseach, then leader of Fine Gael, and the Minister for Finance, then his party’s spokesman on finance, both joined in and supported the bailout of the banks.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: I know the Cathaoirleach is neutral.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: I do have a question for the Leader. Will he set aside time for a comprehensive debate on the issues in question? I want the Government to produce Jean-Claude Trichet’s letter to the late Brian Lenihan when he threatened him on behalf of the European Central Bank. I find it quite extraordinary that the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael is washing his hands like Pontius Pilate when...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: It will be very difficult for any trial to go ahead unless the Special Criminal Court is used to try the bankers. I am calling on the Government-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: It has been in power for two years, but it has done nothing-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: No banker has been put-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: I am calling on the Special Criminal Court to be convened.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: Keep him out. We have enough trouble.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: Keep him out.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: We have enough leakers in this country and we do not need another one.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Jul 2013)

Terry Leyden: The Brits are spying on us all the time.