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Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: If the Chair does not mind, I will just conclude.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: Just a moment, Chair, thank you very much.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I will conclude, if the Acting Chairman will allow me to so do.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I am being fair as well.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: What I believe to be of real benefit is people will be given the opportunity to provide the deposit, in order that they can purchase and become home owners like many other people in the State.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I will try to arrange it if I can.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I wish to inform the House that the time allowed for this debate will be extended. The Leader will be in the House shortly to arrange same.

Seanad: Joint Policing Committees: Motion (15 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I speak in favour of the motion. It is a good motion. I speak as somebody who was a member of the joint policing committee for Gorey when Gorey was a policing district and I want to raise the matter of the mergers that happened on the previous Minister's watch. The attempt to reduce and downsize, of which I have practical experience in my area, is counterproductive on the basis that when...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I will begin by supporting Senator O'Brien's request for a debate on child abuse. This is something that is better discussed in the open. It is something that unfortunately I know too much about, being from County Wexford and from the diocese of Ferns. The natural instinct for every institution is to cover it up. That is always the wrong thing to do. I support the call for the Minister...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: Being a politician is somewhat irrelevant, but given that this man was one of the giants of 20th century Irish history, this act should be condemned in the most severe manner. It is a scandal for that to have happened and even worse, to some degree, on the same occasion that An Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, is launching a book about W.T. Cosgrave.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: We do not know that.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: On a point of order, every speaker to date in this debate has tried to stay away from politicising this, except Senator Cullinane.

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (21 Oct 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I welcome the Minister for Finance back to the Seanad. When I was reviewing my notes on the European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012, much of what the Minister had predicted he could do after the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism, ESM, following the fiscal treaty and agreements at home and abroad, he had done, all to the satisfaction of the taxpayer. He is to be commended for...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: Now that we are into the long dark winter nights, people find they are no longer safe in their homes and this is a real concern. The level of criminality in the Traveller community is now out of control. It is important to qualify this statement, because I do not want anybody to say I am against Travellers. I certainly am not. However, it is not acceptable that one sector of society seems...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I wish to raise the report of the Garda Inspectorate. Before going further, all Members of the House should support An Garda Síochána. It is the thin blue line and its members have served the State well over the decades. The specific area in the Garda Inspectorate report that concerns me relates to domestic violence. This Chamber could do the State some service if it held a...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: It was clear from the Garda Inspectorate report that members of An Garda Síochána dealing with domestic violence did not really understand what they were dealing with, and the short, medium and long-term impacts on the victims were simply not considered. When one considers that 11,000 cases were reported last year and that there were 248 arrests, it means only approximately 2% of...

Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Fifth Stage (12 Nov 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I wish to raise the issue of Waterford Institute of Technology, because I am from the south east. Senator Cummins will know that this region suffers the most because it is the only region in Ireland without a university. The Minister has given an undertaking that she will look at the issue of a technological university for the south east, which is a very good thing. However, it is very...

Seanad: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme: Statements (18 Nov 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I will not pretend that I am as au faitwith this issue as other speakers. It came to me very late. It strikes me that the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, has faced something of a Hobson's choice in this regard. Like Senator Darragh O'Brien, I have known the Minister for a long time. If there had been another opportunity to go in a different direction, I do not doubt that the Minister would have...

Seanad: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme: Statements (18 Nov 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I will certainly consent to that, if the Minister is amenable.

Seanad: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme: Statements (18 Nov 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.