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Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Order, please Senator. The rules are the rules.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator should not repeat herself. She has made her contribution.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I cannot allow the Senator to keep interrupting.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Murnane O'Connor is not allowed to interrupt.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Order for that too. I wish Senators were all polite and would listen to one another in silence.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Address the Chair, please.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator can do so but he should not do it directly.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Murnane O'Connor is out of order again.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Senator, please.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator will not do so. Not on my watch.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Order. Senator Leyden may leave the Chamber again if he wishes.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: There is no point in Senator Murnane O'Connor intervening again. She has made her contribution.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: Order, please.

Seanad: National Broadband Plan: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I apologise to the Minister of State for the interruptions and call on him to respond.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I support some of what Senator Feighan said here this morning. I had long thought that things were progressing satisfactorily. Certainly, the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly does good and valuable work. I now think, however, that the Senator is correct. Given that the news from the North this morning is not encouraging, and from the DUP in particular, an east-west dimension would be...

Seanad: Committee of Selection: Motion (14 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I move:That the Fifth Report of the Committee of Selection be laid before the Seanad.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services (Ducting and Cables) Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I call on the Minister of State to conclude.

Seanad: Telecommunications Services (Ducting and Cables) Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with MEPs (14 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I thank the MEPs for their interesting commentaries. The previous speaker did not want discuss Brexit but it is dominating all our thoughts, regardless whether we like it. I cannot fathom that Britain would countenance leaving the Union and a market of 500 million people without wanting what has become known as option A. While its representatives say that Britain will leave the customs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with European Ombudsman (14 Feb 2018)

Paul Coghlan: I thank Ms O'Reilly for her very interesting presentation. She is doing important work. She is critical of the Council, probably rightly. How has she found the Commission and other bodies? Which of them occupy more of her time or which are slightly more difficult to deal with? Is there a culture of cover-up, although I hesitate to use that term? They do not wish to release information....