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Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Will the Leader inform the House when the social welfare and pensions Bill will be published?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I always try to be helpful.

Seanad: Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister to the House. This is a technical Bill, which the Fianna Fáil Party will support. The Seanad deals swiftly with EU related legislation, similar to the way we dealt with the Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2011. It is important that this Bill is dealt with swiftly. When the group leaders discussed this Bill last week we agreed on the importance of sending...

Seanad: Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: My comments were based on the Minister's statement and I also asked a couple of questions on the Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Leader will be aware that it is more than five months since the residents of Priory Hall had to leave their homes. Those residents have also been waiting five months for a meeting with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Taoiseach. Unfortunately, as residents of Priory Hall waited outside the Department of the Taoiseach today, their request for a...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I urge my colleagues on the other side of the House to look at the list. I believe the Minister is due to visit the House in April. There is a great deal in his grand master plan, and I welcome much of it because any school that requires a building should get it. However, the Minister should state that it is actually a reduction of €400 million in the capital programme, and a reduction...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: You did.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: That is probably why we need a debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Is the Senator being colloquial again?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: How many of these schools have already been built?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator needs to find a better question.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator is not entitled to do so.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator should ask Senator John Whelan.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: RTE is tuned in.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: What is wrong with that? It is Cheltenham week.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator should relax a little.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Yes, do.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Éist, le do thoil.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: On a point of order, I am not sure how appropriate it is-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I apologise for interrupting, but we must be careful about the separation of powers between the Oireachtas and the Judiciary. Members of the Oireachtas should not comment on sentences imposed, regardless of their personal views. It is not appropriate for them to comment on the leniency or otherwise of the sentences handed down in the cases mentioned.