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- Seanad: Minimum Custodial Periods Upon Conviction for Murder Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: Silence.
- Seanad: Minimum Custodial Periods Upon Conviction for Murder Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: No, you cannot raise a point of order.
- Seanad: Minimum Custodial Periods Upon Conviction for Murder Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator has spoken. Sorry now, order please. Senator O'Donnell please, through the Chair, carry on.
- Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator's time is up.
- Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: I call on Senator Boyhan and he has six minutes.
- Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator does not have eight minutes. He has six minutes.
- Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator stands corrected.
- Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Second Stage (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: I welcome the Minister to the House and I was glad to hear him on this matter when we discussed it last week. The nub of this is, as Senator Mac Lochlainn has just said, we need to pay councillors a decent living wage. Given the pressure that they are under they are almost expected to be full time. If we are going to attract the proper, talented and best people we are going to have to pay...
- Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: That is to be welcomed. Local democracy is the foundation of our political system. We want the best people in there. Unfortunately we have seen instances of people who cannot keep pace with it, they just cannot afford it. That needs to be addressed. We know that both the Association of Irish Local Government, AILG, and the Local Authority Members' Association, LAMA, have always played an...
- Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: Or she indeed. It could be anything. It could be a local road or it might be a pothole as it often has been in my part of the world. It is anything and everything. Any Department, anything at all.
- Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: We are aware of the work commitments, as is the Minister of State. I appreciate what the Minister of State is trying to do in making a move, and there is movement. However, councillors are not on a proper living wage and they are not entitled to a pension. There is more that can be done for them. It behoves us to attempt very seriously to do this for them.
- Seanad: Business of Seanad (29 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: I have received notice from Senator Máire Devine that, on the motion for the Commencement of the House today, she proposes to raise the following matter:The need for the Minister of State at the Department of Health with special responsibility for disability issues to outline the home care packages and hours available to a severely disabled individual whose wish it is to be discharged...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: Please desist from naming individuals.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: They may be but we are not allowed to name individuals.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: Would Senator Devine like to ask a supplementary question?
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Road Projects Status (29 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Ross.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Scéim na gCúntóirí Teanga (29 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Joe McHugh, to the House.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Scéim na gCúntóirí Teanga (29 Nov 2017)
Paul Coghlan: Go raibh maith agat, a Aire Stáit. Bhí tú ag caint mar a bhíonn mise. I thank the Minister of State and the Senator.