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- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: I thank the Senator.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: The Senator is over time by one minute and 32 seconds.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: Your time is up.
- Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (14 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: I would call it pilferage.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: Daylight robbery.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: I second Senator Darragh O'Brien's amendment to the Order of Business. I also take this opportunity to welcome to the Public Gallery Dr. Keith Swanick who will contest the forthcoming Seanad by-election on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party. Dr. Swanick is from Castlerea. I wish him well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: I think it is appropriate that I would-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: Dr. Swanick comes from County Roscommon and practises in Belmullet. He is a very successful young man who will make be a major addition to this House. I also ask the Leader to arrange for the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton, to come to this House to review the Personal Injuries Assessment Board which was established more than ten years ago by the then Minister,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: I, too, welcome the appointment of Professor Philip Lane, economics professor at Trinity College, as the new Governor of the Central Bank. It appears an unseemly row has broken out between the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, in regard to that appointment. They should not be washing their dirty linen in public. It...
- Seanad: Children First Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister and his senior staff to the Chamber today. I congratulate Senator van Turnhout on this amendment which I fully support instinctively as a parent and grandparent myself. Without the support of the Minister, this would not have been possible. I admire the work and research the Senator has put into it. As deputy leader of the Irish delegation to the Council of Europe,...
- Seanad: Children First Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: Teachers could physically abuse pupils in front of their peers in the classroom. If I look back to my own childhood, it was like that of Senator van Turnhout, who was blessed with her mother and father and the manner in which they gave her support. That support has built her up and given her the courage to bring forward these amendments. However, I recall going home to a loving mother - my...
- Seanad: Children First Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: I thank the Minister for the Children First Bill. With the amendment, the Title is absolutely correct, as has been very much proved by the Minister with the support of his officials. The opinion of the Attorney General was also sought in this regard and I thank the Minister for the clarification. I was not trying to put a damper on the Bill, but the point is that Garda resources are...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: Yesterday was an historic day in this House. An amendment was moved by Senator van Turnhout and accepted by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Reilly, which provided for the abolition of the common law defence of reasonable chastisement and, for that purpose, to amend the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 and to provide for related matters. The Children First...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: No, but I want to put a question to the Leader of the House. The Bill will now move to the Dáil and we hope that it will be expedited there. We can give no greater honour to the 1916 Proclamation than that of yesterday when we passed the Bill cherishing all the children of the nation equally. We certainly cherished all the children of the nation equally.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Terry Leyden: All the children are protected under this legislation. The Bill passed yesterday does not discriminate against those with special needs or otherwise. They are all protected. This House has served a great purpose and it proves that the Taoiseach's 11 nominees should be maintained in any reform of this House because it gives the Taoiseach of the day the opportunity to appoint people of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Terry Leyden: Senator Kelly raised the question of the cost of insurance, which is a serious matter. Ivan Yates has written a very good article on this issue in today's edition of the Irish Independent. Quite a number of claims are being submitted to insurance companies and they are reacting to them but many of them are under question. Some people claim that insurance companies pay out too quickly and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Terry Leyden: I cannot understand how anyone could work in that context. How could the Minister, Deputy Kelly, or the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, consider doing that? It is illogical, crazy and totally unacceptable.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Terry Leyden: I am. In 1932 when Fianna Fáil came into power, we had massive building programme throughout the country. We took the issue on board. The money was not there but we were able to do it. I put a suggestion to the Government and the Minister that there are numerous well equipped and well trained builders who are unemployed and such ability could be mobilised through the local...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Terry Leyden: Many of them are underutilised in that many of the engineers do not have the amount of work to do that they should have. Most of them have been transferred to deal with water services. Good quality engineers and builders could have direct labour contracts. We have electricians, plumbers, plasters-----