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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Paul Bradford: Senator Ó Brolcháin to continue without interruption.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Paul Bradford: I ask the Senator to speak to the Bill.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Paul Bradford: Senator Ó Brolcháin to continue without interruption.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Paul Bradford: I call Senator Ellis who is aware that he may only intervene once.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Paul Bradford: The Minister of State without interruption.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2010)

Paul Bradford: That brings the discussion on group 2 to a conclusion. We will move to group 3, where the Minister of State might address the House on amendments Nos. 50, 72, 80, 98 and 99.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Sep 2010)

Paul Bradford: I have listened with interest to what my colleagues have said and agree with Senator Twomey that there is a sense of déjÀ vu. Senator Harris has caused a political disturbance by presenting us with a real image of where Ireland stands. I recall that 18 months or two years ago he predicted there would be almost 500,000 people out of work. Some of us sneered at the time and others jeered,...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Paul Bradford: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Paul Bradford: I support every word of my colleague Senator Paschal Donohoe. I say to Senator Leyden that it is not a Tallaght strategy or a national government we need to speak about but we certainly need to speak about a new type of politics. My fear is that there is an inclination to replace the economics of illusion which has brought us to where we are with what I would call the politics of delusion....

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2010)

Paul Bradford: We should play our part and we should decide with our political partners on this side and on the other side of the House a date next September or October for the next general election. Between now and then, we should put petty party politics aside and decide to put Ireland first. Politics can wait and elections can wait but Ireland cannot wait. It is as serious as that. The old thinking...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (7 Oct 2010)

Paul Bradford: I thank the Cathaoirleach for giving me the opportunity to raise in the House the special needs of a seven year old child in my native county of Cork whose case is the source of much concern for her parents and community, who has Down's syndrome and who, up until one month ago, was happily attending her local national school, into which she had been well integrated with the assistance of a...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (7 Oct 2010)

Paul Bradford: As the Minister of State would expect, I am far from satisfied with what he has said. I appreciate, however, that he is speaking on behalf of the Minister and accept his commitment to bring the issue back to her desk. It is very much the concern and fear of the parents in this case that the child's development and skills have deteriorated as a result of the reduction in services. They...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Paul Bradford: I concur with Senator Leyden's congratulations to Senator Mullen. He was alone among Irish members in attending that session last week, or so I read in one of the despatches. I support those colleagues who have called, once again, for some degree of consensus as the country faces the gravest challenge in a generation. Again, I record my suggestion of a fortnight ago that we should put in...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Paul Bradford: Opposition to consensus is an outdated form of politics that we can no longer afford.

Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy: Statements (12 Oct 2010)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the Minister and wish him well in his endeavours to secure a package favourable to Ireland, its agricultural industry and our economy in the ongoing negotiations. The Minister referred to welcoming the input and co-operation of all sides in this House. On the Order of Business we had a debate on political consensus and I assure the Minister that in respect of this issue concerning...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (14 Oct 2010)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the opportunity to highlight the concerns of the authorities at St. John the Baptist national school, Midleton, County Cork, which urgently needs a new building. I am normally disappointed when the line Minister is not present to respond, but the Minister of State, Deputy Kelleher, knows this area and many of the parents involved and is aware of the need for new, modern...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (14 Oct 2010)

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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Paul Bradford: I support what Senators Harris and Cummins said on the Irish passport issue. We need to show that this House has a balanced view of world affairs. Sadly, we are continuing to express a one-sided view of Israel, in particular. Senator MacSharry's Freudian slip about the Good Friday Agreement has brought me to the point I would like to make. As I have said previously, peace on this island,...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Paul Bradford: We need to set aside time to turn the economic ship of State around. I reiterate that the various parties could demonstrate political maturity by sitting down and agreeing a date for the next general election which I believe should take place early next summer.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)

Paul Bradford: Between now and then we should not have to worry about the views of certain Independent Deputies who are concerned about the parish pump rather than the country as a whole. We could debate the issues that need to be addressed and put in place the foundations for the reconstruction of the economy. I assure my Fine Gael colleagues, in particular, and everybody else on this side of the House...