Results 241-260 of 5,046 for speaker:Paschal Mooney

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Will climate change stay the same or will it increase if we frack?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I have one brief supplementary question. If fracking was introduced into Ireland, we would not be talking about a small number of wells but about hundreds of wells in a landscape that would not be able to absorb that. Could Mr. Lynott confirm that the cumulative effects of hundreds of wells in Leitrim, west Cavan, Fermanagh and the Lough Allen basin are being addressed in this survey? What...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: And chemicals.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I join Senator Ó Murchú in raising what seems to be increasing tension over the question of ISIS. It is incumbent on our Government to take an independent line on international affairs, as it has always done traditionally. Specifically, we should be calling for an end to the civil war in Syria rather than for bombing more people, which inevitably results in a high cost in terms of...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I endorse everything that has been said and wish Bernard every happiness in his retirement. He will be a loss around this House. We will miss the various exchanges about the football. Leitrim would not come anywhere close to Dublin's success but Bernard was always aware of how Leitrim was doing in the various championships and leagues. It was always great to have a chat with him about...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: This is a very sensitive subject for politicians on which even to engage in a debate, as the Minister will be aware. I admire Senator David Norris's forthrightness and political courage, not for the first time, on this issue, but one has to tread like one is walking on egg shells when one talks in the Houses of the Oireachtas about the specifics of the amendments which, in general, are about...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: -----yet the public did not bite. About three or four years ago The Irish Timescarried out an attitudinal behavioural survey which was quite extensive and I vividly remember one of the key questions.All of the questions offered respondents a selection of answers labelled A, B or C. One of the questions was whether readers believed politicians' pay had increased, decreased or stayed the same...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: It was a small amount but, as Senator Norris pointed out, it affected pensions. I will always defend the right of people in these Houses to a pension. The question of how that pension is calculated should be a matter for outside agencies. It is important to remind people that the pay and conditions of politicians were not set by politicians. We need to go back to the infamous benchmarking...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I do not want toing and froing, that is not the way debate operates in the House. I would prefer to allow the Minister to respond.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: That is why I do not wish to extend the discussion because there are relevant and pertinent issues to be raised.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am not sure it is relevant to the amendment.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Amendments Nos. 3 and 4 are out of order.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Is the Minister asking for a correction?

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I will direct the clerk to make that correction.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Amendments Nos. 17 and 18 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Amendment No. 19 is out of order.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: It would involve a potential charge on the Exchequer.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Coastal Erosion (25 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Simon Harris, for taking the time to come into the House to respond to the Commencement matter I raise, namely, to seek funding to combat coastal erosion at Tullaghan, County Leitrim, which seriously threatens Tynte Lodge. The house has now come into private ownership. The Burns family have great plans for Tynte Lodge, which was built in 1750. It is...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Coastal Erosion (25 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am very grateful to the Minister of State. As the Acting Chairman will know, as he comes from that part of County Leitrim, we are very proud that our 2.5 miles of coastline dictates that Leitrim is a maritime county. That is usually a pub quiz question. We are very proud of that particularly lovely part of County Leitrim. If Tynte Lodge progresses along the lines which the new owners...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Paschal Mooney: This morning I attended a meeting of the transport committee at which we heard presentations from representatives of the Garda and the Road Safety Authority regarding drunk driving convictions. The figures that were published in the media in the past few weeks were distorted and have been proven to be inaccurate. The figure given in the media was 40%, which compared very unfavourably with...