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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?

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

Frank Feighan: Exactly. We agree on that.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Frank Feighan: I also wish Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general of the HSE, well. He took over in 2012 at a very difficult time for the health service and did make a difference. I saw the difference he had made in Roscommon University Hospital and the setting up of the Saolta University Health Care Group in very difficult circumstances. The HSE and the health service will always be difficult areas to sort...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Rail Network (28 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, to the House. The Minister of State is very familiar with Sligo. I understand he has been in Sligo for nearly the past month. He has visited St. Angela's College and he also was down to launch the national development plan. The Minister of State went down very well while he was there. This matter concerns the need for the Minister...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Rail Network (28 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I appreciate the extra rail fleet coming online. We must try to address the times and the length of time it takes to get from the north west to Dublin by rail. The distance from Dublin to Roscommon town is ten miles shorter than the distance from Dublin to Boyle, which is on the Sligo line. It takes 50 minutes less to get to Roscommon town...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: Senator Leyden will still be here.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: I also extend to Senator Ó Clochartaigh every good wish for the future. I met him when he was first elected to the House seven years ago. He brought a huge interest in media and the arts. He came from very much a community background. I was my party's spokesperson on the Irish language and a friend of Senator Ó Clochartaigh's interviewed me and, let us say, she found me out in...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: I join with Senator Black in reflecting on a very important visit to Belfast over the past two days with the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. There are huge difficulties regarding legacy issues and we visited the Wave Trauma Centre and Relatives for Justice in that regard. It was absolutely wonderful to visit Coláiste Feirste, an Irish-language...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: I support what my colleague, Senator Hopkins, said about a house. The family concerned did a huge amount of work with the local authorities to save the house from being flooded but it is now in no-man's land, for want of a better word. The Minister of State, Deputy Moran, or the Minister should come in here to outline what will be done. The Minister is working hard around the country but...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: The news coming from Belfast is very depressing. It does not look like a deal will be done to reopen Stormont. It is quite obvious that a deal on an Irish language Act is effectively impossible. I suggest that we now have to look at other aspects of the matter. I remember moments in Irish history, such as the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the signing of the Good Friday Agreement,...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: Nationalist MPs from Sinn Féin and the SDLP have done so. I think that sends out another signal. Third, there really should be an aspect of the Republic of Ireland looking at associations with the Commonwealth of Nations. This would send out a signal that we mean business. If we want to have an all-Ireland soccer team, we should be able to compromise in these situations. Fourth, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2018)

Frank Feighan: I thank Ms Thomson and Mr. Begg for a very wide ranging presentation. Many of the questions I wish to ask have already been asked and I will not go over them. They stated they met the Ministers for Justice and Equality and Foreign Affairs and Trade together and that it was a very useful meeting. It is obvious the Irish Government is committed to building reconciliation in the North and...