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Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: It is quite simple. People in business will understand and I have been in business. The people who are doing business at the moment are finding it extremely tough. What if I or any business person went into a local bank and asked for ¤100,000 capital to develop or maintain a business and the bank agreed? It would say that one did not have to repay the capital amount for 40 years but...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Yes. I want to clarify a point for Senator Cullinane because he does not understand. Any business person would grab that deal on ¤100,000 because he or she would not have to pay it back for 40 years and could maintain a business with ¤3,000. At present the banks are offering ¤100,000 over five years. That means it would cost ¤100,000, plus ¤6,000 per year in interest and could cost...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: It makes perfect sense. Sinn Féin does not do perfect sense.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Shakespeare said that he could give an explanation but could not give an understanding.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I heard Deputy Pearse Doherty speak in the Dáil but he is not telling the people of Donegal what would happen if we do not pay. Interest rates would double and the people in Donegal, to whom he is telling fibs, would find their mortgage repayments doubled from next month or next year. The people who advise Sinn Féin in Belfast are at no risk because they are paid by Her Majesty's...

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I will be brief. This Bill is crucial to the future of my children and future grandchildren. I regard the Minister's advice as important. People go to hospital for operations but they do not have time to think about it or to get a second opinion when it is an emergency. This is an emergency and we must deal with it. The thought of not passing this Bill tonight must be considered. The...

Seanad: Garda Resources: Motion (6 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I welcome the Minister. My wife was born in a Garda station, as were many of her siblings in Carrigart in Donegal. I must add that this was not because her mother was a criminal but because her father was a Garda. That was over 50 years ago. The Garda station was manned by a family, as were most stations in the country. The local Garda, God rest my father-in-law, was usually there seven...

Seanad: Garda Resources: Motion (6 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: "I welcome the closure of stations that are underused and cost the taxpayers money." This is a quote from Councillor Seán Donnelly, Sinn Féin, west Tyrone. I rest my case.

Seanad: Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: The Senator is using another Member's time.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (6 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. The issue of the Irish troops in the Second World War has always been a thorny one. Those troops have been celebrated and admonished by historians and viewed as both traitors and heroes by different ends of the spectrum. During the Second World War, Ireland, or Éire as it was known then, held neutral status. Recently, I was reading that in...

Seanad: Private Rented Sector: Statements (6 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. One of the most important issues facing the Government is housing - social housing and private rented accommodation. In the past, people alluded to the "flatland" which was part of Dublin for many years. As a student in Dublin, Ranelagh was known as "flatland" because everyone had a bedsit there or stayed in a bedsit with friends or family....

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I join Senator John Whelan in calling for a full apology. Everybody in the State, including the Taoiseach, is of the opinion that the women in question and their families suffered for a long time. On reflection, an apology will be forthcoming. It has to be made because the period of our history in question must be acknowledged. I credit the Government for producing the report and former...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Election of Chairman (30 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I congratulate Deputy Mac Lochlainn on his election and look forward to working with him. This committee is relatively new but I am sure Deputy Mac Lochlainn will get a handle on it fairly quickly. It is a very important committee and I am glad that a fellow Donegal man is in the Chair.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: No matter where a development took place, the Opposition parties would have criticised it. If that is the best they can do, they should try harder because it is not impressive.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I would also welcome if the Minister for Health were to come into the House to discuss developments in primary care and hospital care. Letterkenny General Hospital opened a new accident and emergency unit recently and there was no political trumpet blaring because the previous Government and this Government were instrumental in delivering that. Fianna Fáil should be very careful about...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: When Senator O'Brien's Government was in power and his party's current leader was Minister for Health, the health service in Donegal was run down to the degree that-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: There were 15,000 people-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

Jimmy Harte: I ask that the Minister be invited to come into the House to discuss developments. The health service in the north west and in Donegal was decimated during the good times. Members should remember this was not at a time when there were cuts. Some 15,000 people took to the streets of Letterkenny campaigning for cancer services and the then Fianna Fail and Green Party Government had to be...