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- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: It is like Senator Kelly's Bill; it has died a death, as I said it would.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: I compliment The Irish Times and two of its writers, Colm Keena and Arthur Beesley, on an exposé today on the goings-on at Rehab. It relates to the activities of a director who has a dissolved company but billed Rehab for €66,000 in 2012 and €11,000 in 2011. As the Taoiseach said, he is lifting stones and the maggots are coming out. They are not Fianna Fáil maggots,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: Laragh Consulting Limited was dissolved in 2009. Yet it could bill Rehab in 2011 and 2012. It is an extraordinary event for anyone in the country that a dissolved company could bill a national organisation for such money. I know that there are dirty tricks operating within Fine Gael and that some media are rather compliant when it comes to the activities of the dark forces behind the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: One of the past masters-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: -----a former director of elections for Fine Gael, who goes back to the days of Garret the good, is now deciding-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: It is now decided that he is to be sacrificed because of expediency on the part of the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: I call on the Minister for Health to come before the House to explain what he is doing. He is the Minister in charge of sections 38 and 39 of the relevant legislation. He should know what is going on. If he does not know what is going on, then he should not be Minister. Mr. Flannery said that having destroyed their business, the Minister was now making accusations against them and that it...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: This, even though the decision to pay Mr. Kiely was made by the Minister for Health because he knew what was going on. We should be careful about what is going to happen. The Government may have been upset when it discovered that a former director of elections for Fine Gael is now in the middle of a major controversy.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: They will be unearthed and exposed for what they are.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: I ask that the Government convey to the US Government and President Obama our disappointment that the United States has not appointed a permanent ambassador to Ireland. One quarter of President Obama's final term in office has elapsed. Given the Tánaiste's statement that Ireland is restoring its position and good name around the world, it is extraordinary that the United States, one of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: Senator Bacik would not fit in too well in the Vatican.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: I want to improve rather than disimprove our relations with the Vatican.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: As the Leader of the Seanad, Senator Cummins is in a position to convey to the Taoiseach Ireland's disappointment that the United States has not appointed a permanent ambassador to this country. To add to Senator Darragh O'Brien's comments regarding the unfortunate and extraordinary statement made last night by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, on the lottery...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: Mr. Flannery is the man who brought Fine Gael back to power. He is an excellent operator. The Minister has made a pre-emptive strike because what is coming down the line as far as Rehab is concerned will be shattering.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: He is a live wire.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: I will not be there.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: The Senator could go back to Fine Gael. Why does it not bring them all back?
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: How can they come back? They are all dead.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: Should the Senator declare an interest in it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2014)
Terry Leyden: The Chair is being very generous. I am just back from the Christmas break and wish to take the opportunity to say those things. Our embassies around the world are the best investment this country has. Let us be honest about it - they are trade missions. That was what we changed in government. Instead of just being diplomatic missions, they are trade envoys around the world and open doors...