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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: You can drip away but when it comes to the next election you will be gone.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: The Leas-Chathaoirleach is absolutely right.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: We held the vote there.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: We held the vote in Roscommon-South Leitrim.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: Good.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: Not true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: I apologise that I was delayed coming down to the meeting. I welcome our friends who have come to give us very useful information. The involvement of Councillors John Sheehan and Maria Byrne is particularly important because they provide representation via their attendance at the regional assembly of the European Union. There is a real disconnection between Europe and Ireland particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: Possibly, but the Seanad will have a particularly important view. I ask for the views of witnesses on the local community development committees. Do they consider it is a retrograde step to take away the Leader programme and put it into the committees and under local authorities? Many people objected to it. The Leader programme played a very good role in the development of local areas....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Mid-term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: I ask that the submissions that were made here today be sent with the support of the joint committee to the European Commission.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: Do not confuse it any more, please.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: The Senator's leader was involved in a cover-up.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: Incredible.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: It is an honour and a pleasure to second Senator Mary-Louise O'Donnell's amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: I am glad to be associated with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: Any port in a storm, my dear.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: You should be grateful for small mercies.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: The Senator made a very convoluted speech which I found hard to understand, but besides that.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: Well written but convoluted.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: I am delighted that Senator Mullins has taken an interest in the Roscommon-Galway constituency, where he looks like a potential candidate. He will have to resolve the water issue long before he dips his toe in that water.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Terry Leyden: Senator Mullins will have great difficulty getting a seat in that constituency on the next occasion, given the poll he received the last time. The construction of Irish Water shows the ineptitude of the Government. I look back at Charlie Haughey, who, as Taoiseach, established the IFSC, which currently employs 50,000 people.