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- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: I support Senator Hanafin's call for the restoration of the social partnership process, an issue I also raised yesterday. Social partnership has served us well in the past, in particular in the 1980s when we had massive economic difficulties, worsened by unemployment and mass emigration. I support the call for the restoration of the social partnership process, not least to bring everybody...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: That is outrageous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: On a point of order, will the Leader clarify who got the trade union sub?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: It was flushed down the toilet by the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: I hope he does stay with us or we will be ruined.
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: We have debated this Bill at length, for approximately 12 to 14 hours, and everything that could possibly be said about these amendments has been said so I will not add to my comments on them. The points have been well made on all sides of the House, not least on the Government side where there is a filibuster. I intend, however, to reintroduce some of these amendments on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: The Minister has replied several times.
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: The Minister of State should have gone to west Cork.
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: He has cousins in west Cork.
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Like Senator Twomey, it gave me no pleasure to walk past the picket by the CPSU this morning. However, I did so in the belief that we were coming into this House to debate the issue. I hope we will have a good, healthy debate this evening, exchange views with those on the other side of the House and then vote on the legislation. That is why we are here. I refer to the CPSU and the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: I have only one salary. Some people have three.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: I welcome the Minister of State. People throughout the country are sitting around kitchen tables discussing the downturn in our economic fortunes. Many of them have lost their jobs and those of them who were not unlucky enough to lose their jobs are earning much less. They are still paying the same bills, struggling to pay mortgages, send children to school and trying to make ends meet....
- Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: I raise an issue I have raised over the past number of weeks. The Government has consistently ignored offers of constructive co-operation from the Opposition in regard to reaching a consensus on a national recovery plan. I said last night that a national recovery plan is needed and that at the heart of that plan should be fairness and equity but that is not happening. That is reflected in...