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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: The Senator should not blame An Post.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Spoken like a true Tory.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: That is not true.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: That is nonsense.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Senator John Kelly also asked for an extension.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Three voices from the grave.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: It is.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: To be fair in this regard, the most recent budget also contained such incentives.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate her on her appointment. I wish to be associated with the sentiments expressed by Senator Wilson about Deputy Penrose. I thank the Minister of State for her contribution which was mainly constructive. We will allow her away with the non-constructive parts as having a cut is part of politics. I am pleased the Minister of State referred to...

Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: She should carry on. She is doing well.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Senator Keane should stick to her script.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Would it be fair to say that the guidelines will be available before the summer?

Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Fine Gael and Labour control the councils.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Statements, Questions and Answers (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank the Minister for State for her earlier responses. I wish to ask a question that is supplementary to those I asked previously and which follows on from Senator Denis Landy's contribution. The Minister of State has said the categorisation has been completed for this year. While I do not like this, I understand the Department's point of view. However, I wonder about cases in which...

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I was only a lowly insurance clerk but what do I know about business? I thank the Minister of State for his most comprehensive contribution. I believe that Private Members' time for Government Members is much better served by the production of legislation, rather than simply discussing motions in the Chamber. I acknowledge that many good ideas have been put forward. Successive...

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: I do not believe anyone agrees with that point and the Minister of State should get his officials to provide him with the real figures in this regard. Second, I refer to lending. While I acknowledge this also was the case under the previous Government, all Members are aware there is not a rat's chance in hell that AIB or Bank of Ireland will have hit their 2011 lending targets to the SME...

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: It is a nonsense and will be proved as such.

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: Unless it is made easier and cheaper for people and businesses to operate-----

Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: -----particularly when they do not receive the credit which should be available, we can have these motions every day of the week and they will not make a difference.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Darragh O'Brien: It has taken the Leader only six months to tell the House the arrangements he has made for a discussion on mortgages. I was going to raise this issue again. While I might be boring, I am at least consistent, because what we have seen in the most recent mortgage figures is that close to 10% of all residential mortgages on principal private residences are in arrears for more than 90 days. I...