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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Terry Leyden: Yes.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2015: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Terry Leyden: As there are no other contributors, I call on the Minister of State to respond.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

Terry Leyden: I second Senator MacSharry's amendment to the Order of Business. I also thank the Cathaoirleach for his welcome to my family today. On 10 December 2015, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Reilly, signed the commencement order on the removal of the defence of reasonable chastisement in cases of corporal punishment under section 28 of the Children First Act 2015. This...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

Terry Leyden: The Senator is here already.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2015)

Terry Leyden: I welcome our colleague, Deputy Tom Barry, to the House and wish him well in the election. I hope he does not get too attached to this House today on seeing how it works. I wish the Cathaoirleach well and thank him for his wonderful chairing of the Seanad over the past four or five years.He has been exemplary in his work, as everyone must agree, as has the Leas-Chathaoirleach, Senator Denis...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2015)

Terry Leyden: We have been annexed for 300 years ourselves.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Dec 2015)

Terry Leyden: It is well deserved. I got that honour once myself.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Dec 2015)

Terry Leyden: It was a long time ago.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Dec 2015)

Terry Leyden: It was the last century.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Dec 2015)

Terry Leyden: Correction; it was this century.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Terry Leyden: I call on the Leader of the House to consider dealing with a Bill in this House, if it is passed by the Dáil. I am referring to the Deputy Niall Collins's Bill relating to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. We should put in safeguards. I had thought the intrusion and tapping of telephones was something we left in the 1980s. Now, it has come about again that the Garda...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Terry Leyden: I think they have been named in public already, as far as I am aware.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Terry Leyden: The three journalists have been named. I am sure they would not object to being named here, because it is an awful intrusion into the private lives of these much-respected journalists who are doing an excellent job. Journalists have a role in our democracy to expose wrongdoing. They should not be harassed by GSOC. It is outrageous. The Government should adopt the Bill prepared by Fianna...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Terry Leyden: Hear, hear. Well done. The Senator might join me tomorrow morning for a Commencement debate, please.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Terry Leyden: The Senator is going to Farmleigh, is he?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)

Terry Leyden: Is he going to Farmleigh?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Constituency Boundaries (20 Jan 2016)

Terry Leyden: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing this Commencement matter to be taken today. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The situation for the people of County Roscommon is very grave and serious. A three-person commission, under the chairman, Jack Keyes, to review the boundaries of County Roscommon for the purposes of a possible amalgamation with County Westmeath. The commission...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Constituency Boundaries (20 Jan 2016)

Terry Leyden: I thank the Minister of State for her compressive reply. If Roscommon is deprived of the rates that are generated in the Monksland area, it will put the funding of County Roscommon in serious jeopardy. There is no question about that. If that area is annexed from Roscommon, the rates will be collected and spent in that area. By the way, the Connacht side of Athlone is one of the most...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Terry Leyden: It is now 11.45 a.m. With respect to all our colleagues, we should try to commence the business of the House on time. It is only right and proper that the second Chamber of the Irish Parliament should meet on time. I ask the Leader, the Whips and everybody else to try to do better.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2016)

Terry Leyden: I remind the Chief Whip that we have no responsibility as far as that is concerned. It is a matter for the Government parties.