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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: Senator O'Toole has struck a very important chord. There are myriad problems from Malin Head to Mizen Head. We need to focus on the bigger picture and engage in a wider debate, to which many Members have subscribed. Given the job losses, the lack of a rail corridor, the non-functioning of the HSE and without going into any of our pet problems in our local areas and counties, there are...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator has fallen off the bottom again.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: We agree with the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: Will the deputy leader outline the rationale behind the decision to opt out of the new EU reform treaty regarding criminal and policing measures? There has been significant growth in cross-border and international crime, and our coastline is porous, as shown by the shipments of drugs for onward movement, perhaps across the sea again. This is difficult for the citizen to accept. I also call...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Shannon Airport: Statements (10 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: I wish to share time with Senator Nicky McFadden. We should be rightly critical of Aer Lingus for pulling the plug on Shannon. Despite all the assurances given in the past regarding the retention of the Heathrow slots in the national interest, it is, as has been stated in this debate, tearing the heart out of the region. In fact, it is worse than that. It affects the entire western...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: Will the Leader say whether the House should draw any conclusions from the re-ordering of the positions of both the Privacy Bill and the Defamation Bill on the Order Paper? Heretofore, the Privacy Bill tended to appear in preferential order to the Defamation Bill. Is it intended to drop the Privacy Bill altogether from the Order Paper? When is it proposed to take one or the other of Bills...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: I thought he did, in principle.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: Was he not in favour of it, in principle?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: I am sorry, I should hate to——

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: ——misquote the Minister. Perhaps he is awaiting an English translation of a Dutch report.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: The point is that we have had a commission on electronic voting which came out rather strongly against it, as I recall, on the basis that here was no paper trail and further checks and safeguards were very much needed. We are all aware of the €52 million in capital costs and the enormous daily and weekly storage costs. I would like to hear from the Leader whether it is intended to proceed...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: At a minimum, can we at least have a debate in the House on the subject? I understood, perhaps wrongly, that the issue was being examined within the Department on the Minister's instruction. I therefore call for a debate on the matter in this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: It is a famous town, not a village.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: When will there be a debate?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: We know that.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: I second Senator Cummins's proposal for an amendment to the Order of Business. It is a serious matter that the Minister for Transport and the Marine, Deputy Dempsey, was not informed of the major decision regarding Aer Lingus's route from Shannon to Heathrow, even though his officials were aware of it and a note was placed in a file to be bought to his attention. We all remember the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: I do. It is a serious matter and I look forward to the Leader's response. I join Senator Ross in calling for a debate on auctioneering. It is long overdue. Both the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers and the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute would welcome such a debate. I do not accept that the profession is riddled with cowboys.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (25 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: The default of a number of prominent solicitors is a serious matter. The protection of clients' funds is of paramount importance. Like Senator O'Toole, I do not want to be critical of the Law Society, but the regulatory regime must be examined if people managed to play fast and loose with funds or granted undertakings and increased borrowings against them. The society's powers could be...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Oct 2007)

Paul Coghlan: The initial proposal by the Minister for Transport regarding learner drivers was a frightful gaffe, which was bereft of common sense. He subsequently decided to defer implementation until 30 June on the basis of the input of the driver testing industry but there is no way more than 425,000 provisional licence holders will be dealt with by then. Like Senator Fitzgerald, I call on the Leader...