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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: Some time ago, the Northern Ireland Assembly voted in favour of a Bill on marriage equality, which enjoys widespread support in Northern Ireland. I welcome the decision of the House of Lords last night to pass the first parliamentary stage of a same-sex marriage Bill for Northern Ireland. The legislation addresses the vacuum created by the failure of the assembly at Stormont to meet....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I thank the delegates for their submissions. We have heard about political interference from various sides. On the Oral History Archive, we had a similar archive here in different periods, much of which was very anaemic. Sometimes when one goes through the papers of 70 or 80 years ago, the testimony is very vague. In the light of the duty to report crime, a republican or a loyalist...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Special and Commemorative Stamp Programme (22 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for attending. My matter refers to the need for the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to consider honouring the contribution of the Irish navvy to Britain and Ireland by issuing a new postage stamp and to outline ways to facilitate same. Last year, my colleague, the Minister of State at the Department...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Special and Commemorative Stamp Programme (22 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister for his reply. I look forward to the outcome of the stamp advisory committee's deliberations. Like the Minister, I am very proud of the Irish diaspora. They have gone to all corners of the world. They never forgot about Ireland. There is always a rush for us to travel to New York, Boston, Dallas and wherever, and rightly so, but we have taken our near neighbours in...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I agree with Senator Gavan and acknowledge the work of the late Martin McGuinness. One year past his death, we are in a different space. It is a hundred years since the first MP was elected to the House of Commons in my home town of Boyle, in the election of the snows in 1917. He was George Noble Plunkett, who was elected as an Independent and joined Sinn Féin. He was the first...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I am shocked at the revelations around Cambridge Analytica and the harvesting of data of 50 million Facebook users. This obviously helped with the election of President Trump. Over the years we have talked of dirty tricks and underhand methods in elections but they are in the ha'penny place to what is happening now. We need a debate on this issue with regard to bribes, ex-spies, dirty...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: It is welcome that it is International Women's Day. I was asked what woman I had found inspirational during the years. It has to be Mrs. Mary Robinson who was elected as the seventh President of Ireland. It was a great day for women. She was inspirational. As she said, she had been elected by the women of Ireland, that instead of rocking the cradle, they had rocked the system. It was an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the witnesses. I do not profess to be an expert on pensions. I come from a self-employed background and I employed between 30 and 50 people. They were not members of a union. My knowledge of unions was not great but if a worker had wanted to be a member of a union, I would have been only too happy. The business closed five or six years ago and the staff got their entitlements....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I called on the Minister for an independent investigation. If that includes legal opinion, so be it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: Is Mr. O'Leary saying that when there are staff meetings, passengers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I am reading from a statement in the Irish Independentfrom January, which indicates that when staff meetings happen, passengers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I did not get involved in politics for Dáil seats or anything. We have different views but I can imagine the emails coming in now. It is not about Dáil seats but about getting this right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I want to clarify something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: Can I clarify something?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I have to go to the Seanad. I am here since 9.30 a.m. I am here two hours and I have to go to the Seanad, if that is possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: Hang on a second, Chair. It is not a bailout but where will the money come from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I have been here since 9.30 a.m. and everyone is coming and going. I will be back in five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I have been here since 9.30 a.m. and it is interesting to hear all the various views. This committee does not have the expertise of the Workplace Relations Commission. Did I hear crystal clear that the national transport system could grind to a halt because of a difference of €30,000 or €40,000? Is that what I am hearing because we have been talking about the figure of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I understand that. We have been talking for the past half an hour to an hour about a difference €30,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: CIÉ Group Pensions: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: If not, what have we been talking about for the past hour?