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Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: The IRA——

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: That is an aspersion.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I endorse Senator O'Toole's comments on social partnership and would be very glad to debate it at any time. If one governs by decree and does not go before Parliament, one cannot be surprised if national strikes and industrial chaos ensue. The question of driver-testers has been lamentably a long-standing problem that did not arise just last year. I am not a fan of the outsourcing of road,...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I allowed myself a little smile when I heard reference to competitiveness. While a decline in exports would be something to be concerned about, we have a €30 billion trade surplus, which is significantly more than 15 years ago. I was also intrigued to find an article in Le Monde a few weeks ago, which, without a hint of criticism, described Ireland...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: There I disagree with the Senator.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Second Stage. (28 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Shot at Dawn Campaign: Statements. (28 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I fully support and commend Mr. Peter Mulvany and the Shot at Dawn Campaign. I also commend the Minister and the Department of Foreign Affairs for their work on this report. My colleagues Senators Mooney and Brian Hayes have led the way on this issue. The executions were an awful episode in an awful war. The Irish were volunteers and this was dreadful recompense for often intrinsically minor...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I am not sure I like engaging in political hare coursing but we will have to chase a few——

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: With regard to energy supply, which we should debate, Senator Ryan will not march to Carnsore Point any time soon. There will be no nuclear power generation in this State for the foreseeable future.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: Yes. We should debate energy supply, including the bringing on shore of natural gas and the development of natural gas supplies in the interior in the north west, and not only alternative energy resources.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: In reality the point of proposed recommendations in a Seanad debate is simply to allow particular mattters to be discussed. There is no question of the Minister changing his budgetary arithmetic at this stage. I would always have been a supporter of the individualisation process because living in a household of women of different generations, it seemed to me that there was a sharp...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I accept that Senator McDowell has always spoken honestly and to a degree for himself rather than for the Labour Party. Nonetheless, I compliment him on coming to a progressive position on this issue. Nowadays older women are going back into the workforce. In Government Buildings I once had a secretary who had been forced to leave the Civil Service on the marriage bar and returned under a...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: The financial powers of the Seanad are different from those of the Dáil.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: Could this not be raised on the Adjournment?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I must protest. This is irrelevant to the Finance Bill and we have limited time to discuss the Bill.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: It is irrelevant to the Finance Bill.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: The Senator is talking about the Redundancy Payments Acts.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: The Minister for Finance would not be doing his duty if he did not maintain the maximum flexibility for the future, including any unforeseen circumstances that might arise. I applaud him for not making commitments that would tie him down unduly. There is the old chestnut of indexing bands. It is far better that the Minister for Finance increase bands by more than the rate of inflation some...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I thought at first that Senator John Paul Phelan was making the argument that a commitment should take precedence over equity.