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- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: Senators John Kelly and John Whelan had better note that the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, said after the general election that one only said those things during elections. He is now saying it will not happen until 23 May when the European elections will be over and after the Labour Party has been decimated in the local elections. He is trying to deflect-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: I do. Do not believe the Minister when it comes to wind energy or any other source of energy. Members opposite are saying this themselves because they know he speaks with a forked tongue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: Will the Leader indicate how many Senators will be nominated to the group to be set up to deal with the so-called banking inquiry? Will the Seanad be represented on it? When will the group be established? Will the letter of September 2008 from Jean-Claude Trichet be published? Who has it and where is it? I have a good idea where it is. Does the Government have it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: I challenge it to publish it. It was used to blackmail the late Brian Lenihan and Brian Cowen into agreeing to the broad bank guarantee which was dictated by the European Central Bank. Jean-Claude Trichet is responsible for it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: The letter should be published.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: I challenge those who have the letter to publish it and be damned. I have an indication as to who has it. There are copies available. I can tell Members for a start that it is in the Department of Finance and that the Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan, should publish it. No banking inquiry can take place until it is published. A gun was put to the heads of the late Brian Lenihan and Brian...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: Let it be said, without the letter being published-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: I appeal from this House to those who have copies of the letter to publish it now before the inquiry takes place.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: The inquiry will be meaningless without the letter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: I am reluctantly available.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: I wonder about that myself.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: Yes; it is a very good question.
- Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Hogan, to the House. He was not the worst person in the campaign to abolish the Seanad. He was pretty fair in this regard as far as I can recall. I do not think his heart was in it. He was a former Senator. I think he was here for a number of years.
- Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: I am well informed. I was just posing the question and I thought the Minister might have responded in a positive manner.
- Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: Indeed, I was. I recall that the Minister was a very constructive Senator. I took on board much of his wisdom at the time - that is why I am here. I would say to the six Senators elected from the university panel - Senators Norris, Quinn, Crown, Mullen, Barrett and Bacik who jumped through the hoop and is now a Labour Party Senator even though she was elected from the university panel -...
- Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: I was never too keen on them.
- Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: My eyes are wide open. I got elected under the old system and it was a good system and I liked it. I never agreed with those machines. They were the worst machines I have ever come across. They were not even up to speed. I looked at them at the time and thought they were the daftest machines ever. One had to put a paper behind the screen and then press a button. It was the craziest...
- Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: I am sorry I do not have more time. I cannot understand why the Minister cannot publish the bloody Bill, if he does not mind me saying that. He is long enough at it. He published the heads of the Bill but will he publish the Bill and be damned? He should not confine this to the universities and institutes of technology but should extend it to everyone in Ireland who has a qualification,...
- Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: -----has a good sense of humour. When I was a Minister of State and brought Bills through this House, including a companies Bill, I got tremendous advice. I remember former Senator Pat Kennedy from Limerick, who was a Member from Fine Gael. He made a massive contribution to Bills in this House as he was a barrister. Former Senator Mary Robinson is another example of that, as are Senators...
- Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)
Terry Leyden: What about Mary Robinson?