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Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: It is using the most despicable habits and activities to put pressure on suppliers in this country. It is time it was brought to book. This is not about cost anymore or creating or maintaining jobs but capitalist greed that is driving this particular multinational to keep prices artificially high. It is long past time that it was stopped.

Seanad: Business of Seanad. (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: Ten minutes.

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: The Minister will be called at 8.20 p.m., so the Senators will have approximately 20 minutes. Are three Senators offering?

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I cannot guarantee anything, as someone on the other side of the House or from the Labour Party or the Independent group could indicate. The Senators need to make their decision.

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: That would be fine.

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: Would Senator Healy Eames like to be told when she is approaching six minutes?

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I move: Seanad Éireann welcomes the Government's new Employer Job (PRSI) Incentive Scheme which will help to create jobs and get people back to work. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. This motion in the name of the Government side welcomes the Government's new employers' job PRSI incentive scheme which will help to create jobs and get people back to work. I appreciate that the detail of...

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: The Government is totally committed to getting people back to work. It is the number one priority of the Government. I fail to understand why there is criticism even outside of the body politic. I doubt if there is one Member of either this House or the other House who is serving as a public representative who is not aware of the acute trauma and pain being experienced by families who find...

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I have no doubt that every element of the Government's actions must be driven by the confidence that the tourism industry can recover and provide jobs that will filter down to every town and parish. I commend the motion to the House.

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: The Senator is selling his soul. He has been bought.

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I will be eternally grateful.

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I thank Members on all sides of the House for participating in an interesting and incisive debate. I am the first to acknowledge that just because public representatives, Deputies or Senators, are in opposition they are not devoid of ideas. Democracy works through the pooling of ideas. If one has an effective Opposition, it should be in a position not only to criticise and call the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I congratulate the new Fine Gael front bench and wish it well. My particular interest is that two of the members of the Fine Gael Party who represent Leitrim, Deputy John Perry from Sligo-North Leitrim and Deputy Frank Feighan from Roscommon-South Leitrim, have been elevated to the front bench and I wish them well in their role.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I feel compelled to defend the integrity, commitment and passion the Minister of State, Deputy John Moloney, brings to disability issues here. I attended a meeting yesterday with colleagues at which he outlined his plans for the coming months and responded to the controversy over respite care. Deputy John Cregan referred to one of the front-line cutbacks in a respite home in Limerick where...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I share the concern of Senator Ross. I ask the Leader, if there is an opportunity at some point, to bring the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, before the House, perhaps when we debate the Central Bank Reform Bill, to outline his reaction to what, as Senator Ross correctly said, has been a group of bankers at senior level in this country who have been lying through their teeth, not...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: Senators may be aware of newspaper reports today of the possible death by stoning of a lady called Mrs. Ashtiani in the Islamic Republic of Iran. I ask the Leader to convey to the Minister for Foreign Affairs the deep horror of this House, which I am sure would be agreed on, at this proposed execution. The Minister, acting in the name of Ireland, should add his voice and Ireland's voice to...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I wish to refer briefly to a report in today's edition of the Irish Independent which states that having received 99 lashes for her alleged adultery she now faces the imminent prospect of execution and will be wrapped from head to toe in white shroud, buried up to her chest and stoned. The stones will be large enough to cause severe injury, but not so big that she will be killed outright....