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Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (30 Jun 2005)

Paschal Mooney: The south does not see it the same way.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (30 Jun 2005)

Paschal Mooney: It disrupts the karma.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Committee and Remaining Stages. (30 Jun 2005)

Paschal Mooney: We gathered that. It was the development we were talking about.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Paschal Mooney: Those of us who were privileged to be in the Mansion House, including our colleagues on the Forum on Europe and other interested individuals, could not but have been uplifted by the inspiring, visionary speech by the European Commission President. In the words of our distinguished colleague and chairman, Senator Maurice Hayes, the response was the nearest to a standing ovation ever...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jul 2005)

Paschal Mooney: This momentous occasion showed real leadership at a time when leadership has been found to be lacking in Europe. I ask the Leader, in view of her stated commitment to continuing a debate on European matters, to formulate an opportunity to debate the European constitutional treaty in its various parts so that this House can continue to play the leading role started by the Leader when she...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (1 Jul 2005)

Paschal Mooney: There is a precedent for this.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: The Senator should not believe everything he reads.

Seanad: Early Childhood Education: Statements (Resumed). (5 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome my friend and colleague, the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Seán Power, to the House. I also welcome the opportunity for this House to add its voice to the evolving child care policy, which is a relatively recent phenomenon due to the growth in the economy over the past seven or eight years. I must declare a small interest in this matter as I am...

Seanad: Tax Evasion: Motion. (5 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome our friend and colleague, the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Killeen, and I also thank the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, for taking time out of his busy schedule to address this motion in the House. It is very gratifying that a senior Minister should attend the House when his brief and Department are addressed, and I applaud the...

Seanad: Tax Evasion: Motion. (5 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: From listening to Opposition comments and reading the Minister's speech, there seems to be a clear dichotomy between perception and reality. Anyone reading this would have the living daylights scared out of them. I will quote the specific figure into the record. As the Minister has stated, the overall tax debt is 2.5%, down from 30% in 1989. We are second in a list of the top 22 countries,...

Seanad: Tax Evasion: Motion. (5 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: I am reminded a little of Ian Paisley speaking after the initial attempts at agreement last December. He wanted sackcloth and ashes, photographs and blood on the floor. That seems to me to be the motive underlying the motion. The Minister addressed this point so well that I will not elaborate. The wording in the motion before this House includes the following - "believes that the failure to...

Seanad: Tax Evasion: Motion. (5 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: If the Senator believes that, he and I are on a different side of the line. That is why I am here and the Senator on the other side of the House. I am no expert in this area, but I suggest that social welfare fraud is easier to detect. As all Members agree, social welfare fraud involves taking money from the State to which one is not entitled. It is not any more complex than this in that a...

Seanad: Tax Evasion: Motion. (5 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: I accept that totally. I often wonder at the cases one reads about in newspapers of people living on the margins who have been imprisoned because they were perhaps driven by need to engage in social welfare fraud. On the other hand, a person in an important corporate position who has been involved in wrongdoing will not usually end up in the same situation. There are two types of cases....

Seanad: The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: I move: That Seanad Éireann, concerned at the plight of undocumented Irish people living in difficult circumstances in the United States of America: —welcomes the high priority being given by the US President and Congress to addressing the issue of immigration reform in a way which takes account of the particular position of the undocumented, and also of the security of US borders;...

Seanad: The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister. Without engaging in hyperbole, I wish to state that the tabling of this motion represents an historic event in the distinguished history of the House. The motion is equal in significance to that taken in the Lower House. Over 50 years ago, both Houses of the Oireachtas debated the problems of emigration. It is difficult to believe at this remove that our predecessors...

Seanad: The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: It takes the two of them to break the consensus. They are like two spitting divils.

Seanad: The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act: Motion. (11 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: It remains a problem.

Seanad: European Union: Statements. (13 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: Like my colleagues, I welcome the Taoiseach's attendance in the House and I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach with special responsibility for European affairs, Deputy Treacy, to the House. I emphasise the importance of our continuing to focus on European issues. I was pleased that the Taoiseach gave a confident reassertion of the importance of Europe to our...

Seanad: European Union: Statements. (13 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: That was negative. The reason I suggest that is because about 12 months ago I had the experience of being in Norway where I spoke with various Norwegian politicians and inquired why Norway is of, but not part of, the European Union. Norway cannot be in the European Union because its people rejected joining twice in referenda. The margin, in the early 1970s and again in the 1990s, was much the...

Seanad: Salmon Fisheries Report: Statements (Resumed). (25 Oct 2005)

Paschal Mooney: I am always entertained by my friend and colleague, Senator Norris.