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Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (28 Nov 2011)

Thomas Byrne: It is being made a criminal offence for the individual-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (28 Nov 2011)

Thomas Byrne: It is shameful.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Thomas Byrne: It is a public company involved.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Thomas Byrne: I agree with Senator Mooney on the issue of decentralisation. It is about time we had a debate on the issue because it seems that many Government Senators and Deputies think the Government has abandoned decentralisation. That is not the case. In fact, it has continued with many decentralised projects and has pledged to review many others. With regard to Carrick-on-Shannon, it is ludicrous...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Thomas Byrne: It is appropriate.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Thomas Byrne: We are having this debate, but we need a full-scale debate on health policy. Before the election, I warned that Fine Gael policy was to transfer from public to private care where there would be no cutbacks.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2011)

Thomas Byrne: We had the HSE, our public health service, which Fine Gael proposes to transfer to private interests. That is exactly what is happening now. This debate is timely, but we need a full debate on health policy, on where it is going, who is pulling the strings, why those strings are being pulled and why we are looking at private rather than public services.

Seanad: Road Transport Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2011)

Thomas Byrne: The point raised by Senator Barrett is an important one. If a person had been convicted many years ago, I think the Minister said that would be taken into account anyway. Am I correct in saying that if a person committed an offence, say, 40 years ago and the Minister refused him, that he would not be able to take a judicial review on the grounds that the Minister did not consider the length...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister did not see the merit of it last year.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: I rise on a point of order. It is scandalous that a Minister of State would come to the House and completely ignore the way he and his party voted last year, when his party excoriated Fianna Fáil for supporting this measure. He has come to the Seanad as if nothing has happened. It is scandalous.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: This is a scandal and a disgrace. It is as if nothing had happened and as if Fine Gael had never been against this measure.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: It is the Government side which is rewriting history. The Members opposite voted against this measure last year, but they are now telling us with straight faces that all is well and that what happened last year was a mistake.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister of State told the people lies in County Sligo and has told lies again today.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: How can the Minister of State sleep at night?

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: I voted for this measure last year and will vote for it again today.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: The Senator is referring to a separate guarantee scheme.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: It is not.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: This measure relates to deposits of more than €100,000.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: No more than the guarantee which the Senator's party has bitterly opposed for the past few years but for which it is now voting.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee) (Amendment) Scheme 2011: Motion (1 Dec 2011)

Thomas Byrne: That is what the Labour Party accused us of doing. I got that phrase in the neck on the streets of my constituency. I was an "economic traitor". The Senator's party leader accused us of that because of the guarantee the Labour Party is now cynically supporting.