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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: We welcome that process. Rural representatives in particular welcome it. Work in this respect will start immediately. These are the facts. When I, as the Leader, address this House, I must state the facts. I do not pull the figures——

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: By 2010 some 6,000 staff will be decentralised.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: I remind the House that the last time Fine Gael got a mandate to be in Government was 1983.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: The Senator is the leader of her group and the main Opposition party and she knows she is out of order.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: When her party was in government from 1983 to 1987, it doubled the national debt——

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: ——some 1,000 people a week were emigrating——

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: We are not talking about 1% tax here this morning——

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: When the leader's party was in power there was a 65% income tax——

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: During the term of that Fine Gael-Labour Government the lower income tax band was 35%.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: I have facilitated the House by arranging for a debate on the budget this evening by way of my party forfeiting our Private Members' time——

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: ——in order to enable colleagues express their views. The Minister will be present to let the facts be known in the House, given that some Members do not seem to have grasped——

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: ——the facts outlined in the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: That is correct. I only wish that the Senator would tell both sides of the story and not only tell one side all the time.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: Senator Keaveney called for a debate on the creative arts. I have no difficulty in making time available for such a debate. I will raise with the Minister concerned the other matters highlighted by the Senator. Senators Healy Eames and Ó Domhnaill called for a debate on education, including the issue of school building projects. I have no difficulty in such a debate taking place. Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: The Order of Business for today and tomorrow is No. 1, motion re the US agreements on extradition and mutual legal assistance; No. 2, motion re recognition and supervision of suspended sentences; No. 3, motion re European Police Office (Europol) back from Committee; No. 4, statements on scrutiny report on EU climate energy package. It is proposed to take Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, together and...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: It belongs to a Member from the other side. The Senator should raise the matter with Senator Fitzgerald.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: Senators Fitzgerald, O'Toole, Alex White, Coghlan, Hannigan, Boyle, Leyden, Bacik, O'Malley, Regan, Callely, McCarthy, Feeney, Buttimer, Hanafin, O'Reilly and Norris expressed strong views on the budget. We had a good debate yesterday evening during which Senators expressed their opinions on the budget. Considerable uncertainty has arisen regarding old age pensioners on medical cards. The...

Seanad: EU-USA Agreements on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion provided by Article 1.11 of the Treaty of Amsterdam to consent to the adoption of the following proposed measure: a proposal for the adoption by the European Union of the Agreement on Extradition between the European Union and the United States of America, done at Washington on 25 June, 2003 and the...

Seanad: European Police Office (EUROPOL): Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion provided by Article 1.11 of the Treaty of Amsterdam to take part in the adoption of the following proposed measure: a proposal for a Council Decision establishing a European Police Office (EUROPOL). a copy of which proposed measure was laid before Seanad Éireann on 18 July, 2008.

Seanad: Council Framework Decision: Motion (16 Oct 2008)

Donie Cassidy: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion provided by Article 1.11 of the Treaty of Amsterdam to take part in the adoption of the following proposed measure: a proposal for a Council Framework Decision on the recognition and supervision of suspended sentences, alternative sanctions and conditional sentences. a copy of which proposed measure...