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Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: No thanks to the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: A mé féiner.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: I would like to be associated with the good wishes expressed to the Cathaoirleach, staff and Members of the House and hope they have a peaceful and happy Christmas. As we brace ourselves for another bout of bad weather, I share Senator Ellis's concern about the resources available to local authorities. I am informed only 15,000 tones of grit and salt will be available until next Wednesday...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: I said "additional".

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: It shows how out of touch-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: Senator Boyle might go home to his nice oil fired heating system this Christmas but thousands of people around the country depend on bags of coal or peat briquettes.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: That is all they have to use.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: Thousands of people in rural Ireland depend on the bag of coal or briquettes.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: If this is the priority of the Green Party and the Government, they are sadly wrong. I am an optimist but I am also a pragmatist. Unless we take the measures necessary to help our exporters, we will not recover. Our exporters and manufacturers have thrived over the past several years despite this Government. We need to support them with pragmatic measures.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: Poor people cannot afford it. Only the rich can take advantage of it.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: Poor people cannot afford the energy scheme.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: I am not all over the place. Ask the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paudie Coffey: We are obviously missing our Minister in Waterford.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paudie Coffey: Why did not the Taoiseach previously disclose his contacts with Anglo Irish Bank? I ask the Leader to address the matter. The Taoiseach was asked numerous questions on the matter in the Dáil on many occasions. What did he have to hide? The links now evident between the former Minister for Finance and current Taoiseach and Mr. Séanie FitzPatrick and others in Anglo Irish Bank seem...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paudie Coffey: -----he will be aware that it takes at least four hours for those who play golf quickly to go around a golf course.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paudie Coffey: It will have taken them at least four hours to go around the golf course, before they had dinner afterwards. The Taoiseach has said he did not broach the subject of the problems at Anglo Irish Bank with Mr. Seán FitzPatrick and Mr. Fintan Drury, who is a former member of the board of Anglo Irish Bank. It is incredible. The ordinary people of Ireland know it is incredible. It smacks of a...

Seanad: Water Services: Motion (12 Jan 2011)

Paudie Coffey: I move: That Seanad Éireann: recognises the social and economic hardship caused by water restrictions and disruptions for families and local businesses; recognises that an inefficient, outdated and fragmented water network has contributed to drinking water supply problems across the State; notes with concern that on average 43% of Ireland's treated drinking water supply is lost through...

Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (13 Jan 2011)

Paudie Coffey: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Seanad Éireann declines to give a Second Reading to the Climate Change Response Bill 2010 because an all Party consensus has not been agreed on a green house gas emission reduction strategy." It is regrettable that we have had to table this amendment. While much progress has been made by the joint...

Seanad: Climate Change Response Bill 2010: Second Stage (13 Jan 2011)

Paudie Coffey: They have nuclear energy.