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Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: We should understand that for what it is, however, because it is the worst form of cronyism. It is not about party or country. It is about individual jobs for the boys.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: We had the Green Party preach before the last election——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: Senator Butler is out of order again. We had the Green Party preach about cronyism. Since the last election we have had appointments of Green Party candidates to FÁS, the National Disability Authority, the Organic Food Agency——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: It is a question to the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: We have also had appointments to the Library Council, the Irish Film Classification Office and the Private Residential Tenancies Board. We also had the spectacle of a Senator who rejected the Green Party because she failed to get appointed to the cabinet of the European Commission——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: ——an independent office. Does the Green Party not see what it is doing? This is damaging politics.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: It promised to clean up cronyism. It rejected its own Bill on cronyism in this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: It is indicted on this issue. This is a serious distraction from the problems of the country.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: The Minister was negligent.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: Be careful. The Minister might sue the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: That is because the Government has kept it all hidden.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: Today is world book day. I welcome the fact that on "Morning Ireland" this morning, Maeve Binchy was heard to intervene on the closure of Sallynoggin library. While I know it is a specific issue, it is one that goes to the heart of how we design our policies. We have a national policy on social inclusion and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has a policy on social inclusion reflected...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: I remind Senator Boyle that I am not finished.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: I wrote to all the councillors last December appealing to them not to do this in January's budget discussion. I wrote to the county manager and have delivered 5,000 leaflets on the matter. This is bad policy.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: My question is as follows. I am asking the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, or whoever may become the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to intervene in the matter. When a council cuts across its own development plan and national policies on social inclusion-----

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: -----it is required that the Minister would intervene in the matter. There is no disagreement in the House on this issue and I ask the Leader to address that question to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: I refer to the issue of democracy which has been raised. Just one week ago-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: With respect, I have uttered a few words in introducing my question. Surely, I am allowed to do so.

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: I fully appreciate that. I have been a Member of the House for some time now and appreciate that a call for a debate or a question to the Leader is required. However, the issue of respect for democracy has been raised. One week ago there were statements in this and the Lower House on the report of the Ombudsman, Ms Emily O'Reilly, on the lost at sea scheme which was designed by a former...

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: Yet the man concerned claims to have been vindicated by the report.