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Seanad: Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I know the Leader misheard me yesterday on the matter of the second and third terminals for Dublin Airport.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: Of course. I did not, in fact, mention the Great Southern Hotels group. However, will the Leader agree we can assume they are safe in State ownership for quite a considerable period in the absence of a decision on the terminal in question? I, too, support the query raised by Senator Ryan as regards the undertaking given to Cork. As I understand it, the Dublin Airport Authority believed in the...

Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Second Stage. (11 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: This Bill comes against the backdrop of the Health and Safety Authority report which shows that in 2002, 61 people lost their lives in workplace accidents, almost 8,000 workplace injuries resulted in a loss of four or more working days and there were a stunning 13,000 claims for occupational benefit. Fine Gael recognises that this Bill is an honest attempt to deal with that dreadful set of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: Senator O'Toole referred to the fact that the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin, will launch the consumer strategy report today. I am sure this report will resemble the proverbial curate's egg. The Senator may have inadvertently misled the House because, as I heard him, he said that the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business had unanimously...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: It is important to note the committee's decision.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I would like to ask the Leader on the Order of Business to arrange a debate on this issue because I am sure the Minister and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment would welcome a debate on the consumer strategy report. There were many calls for a debate on aviation issues. An article in today's edition of The Irish Times states that the Dublin Airport Authority at a board meeting...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I have. Will the Leader arrange a debate on this issue? We have had so many calls for debates about terminals and so on but I and, I am sure, the Leader do not want to see the hotels group forgotten about. This is an important matter.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: Indeed I am.

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: That is right.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: Aontaím le Seanadóir Ó Tuathail mar gheall ar Chorca Dhuibhne agus an t-ainm "An Daingean". As Senator O'Toole has said, removing Dingle from all of the sign posts is slightly comical but mainly crazy. There is no support in the Gaeltacht, the Galltacht or County Kerry for this move. It is painting us as backward people. What is officialdom trying to do? Is it trying to hide the place from...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: This will send tourists on unintentional mystery tours, clogging up the roads, which are narrow and windy enough without having confused drivers trying to find their way about with maps that are in English. There is a simple solution to this problem. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to the House and allow the people of Corca Dhuibhne and An...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I share the concerns regarding the situation in Lusk and compliment the gardaí. Like Senator Hayes and others, I am also worried about nursing homes. We are all agreed that last night's programme revealed an appalling situation that shows a clear need for regulation and inspectors to ensure proper standards. With the Cathaoirleach's permission, I would like to ask the Leader about the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: It must be tied into the south east.

Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (31 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: It is naturally agreed in that case.

Seanad: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (31 May 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for this very necessary measure. I thank the Minister of State for accepting some of the amendments we believe to be worthy, which were tabled on Committee Stage. I also thank the Minister of State and the officials for the improvements wrought on one of those amendments. It was a pleasure doing business with the Minister of State and well done...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jun 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I must give voice again to the major outrage that exists in Dingle at the attitude and action of the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Éamon Ó Cuív. How can anybody at the stroke of a pen abolish such an area as an entity, and decree that a place of such long and honoured cultural heritage no longer exists? Many feel they are being called after a place in County Offaly,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jun 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I do not think we will but I thought I had a request in for——

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jun 2005)

Paul Coghlan: I know that and I would not expect the Cathaoirleach to do so.

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jun 2005)

Paul Coghlan: Does the Leader agree that, as a letter writer suggested in one of the newspapers recently, the Minister is a conquering army because he is certainly acting like one?

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Jun 2005)

Paul Coghlan: The people of Dingle consider they are being robbed.