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Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: Just for now.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: The Senator means a U-turn.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: One was established for these funds.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: This is why we are debating this motion.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: We have heard the views of Ógra Fianna Fáil on this issue——

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: ——which are no different to those of the senior party. I remind Senator Dooley that his former colleague and Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds, was once advised "when pressed on this keep repeating the above" and the Senator did a very good job of that in the last eight minutes. He told us that the principles are still in place. I am delighted to hear that but we are not interested in the...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: They will not be able to put forward arguments for this reversal. The problem is that this came from a cross-party consensus. When the Committee of Public Accounts produced its excellent report following the DIRT inquiry its first recommendation was that this money should be obtained for disadvantaged communities to give them a boost. The Government accepted all the recommendations and put in...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: It does not suit the political times of the party opposite which wants to take this money and decide where it goes. It will go to marginal constituencies in advance of the next general election, of that there is no doubt. Every Member of this House knows that the appalling abuse of public funds by Fianna Fáil in advance of the last general election was the worst example ever of how public...

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: On a point of order, in order for the amendment to be put it requires to be moved formally in the House. At 5.30 p.m. the Acting Chairman, Senator Leyden, asked the speaker in possession on the Government side to move it. To my recollection, it was never moved. I put it to the Chair that the vote that we should now proceed to is the substantive motion in my name and that of my colleagues.

Seanad: Dormant Accounts: Motion. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: If the Chair is happy, that is fine. Let the record show the opposite.

Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Motion for Earlier Signature. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: On a point of order, if the Leader is presenting a motion for earlier signature to the House, we have the right to debate it.

Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Motion for Earlier Signature. (25 Feb 2004)

Brian Hayes: Vótáil.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Mar 2004)

Brian Hayes: I welcome the debate on the Garda Síochána Bill and the Leader's initiative to give more time to party spokespersons. I am sure the Leader will join me in encouraging all Members to contribute to the debate on this extensive piece of legislation which will have profound implications for the force in the years to come. Does the Leader agree that the comments made by the Minister for Finance...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Mar 2004)

Brian Hayes: Decentralisation was allegedly about the spatial strategy but we now find it is more to do with the next general election. Will the Leader arrange for a debate on the Abbey Theatre, which I have requested in recent months? The Abbey Theatre is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and there have been discussions about a possible new location for it. If the Abbey Theatre is to move, it...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Mar 2004)

Brian Hayes: Perish the thought.

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Mar 2004)

Brian Hayes: Tell us more.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Mar 2004)

Brian Hayes: Fine Gael agrees to the Order of Business. Is the Leader in a position to tell the House when the Government intends to bring legislation on electronic voting before it? The latest phase of the e-voting saga took place yesterday when the Government decided to appoint an independent commission to investigate the matter and report to the Houses by 1 May. While every member of the commission is...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Mar 2004)

Brian Hayes: That is correct.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Mar 2004)

Brian Hayes: A tranche.

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Mar 2004)

Brian Hayes: As we know.