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Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I want to say only one sentence——

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I am saying nothing controversial.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Martin Mansergh: We did not have a debate. There was a demand in the House for a debate on 1916 but we never held it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Martin Mansergh: Mr. de Valera said that James Connolly was the person to whom he felt closest among the leaders of 1916 and Connolly was very close to Countess Markievicz, who went on to become a founding member of our party.

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I was very glad to see the deputy leader of the Labour Party dressed up as Countess Markievicz recently.

Seanad: State Airports: Motion. (26 Apr 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I welcome the Minister. I have absolute confidence that he is committed to all the State airports to ensure they are able to develop. I had the pleasure in the past fortnight of travelling three times to and from Shannon and a fourth time from Dublin. If people realised what a pleasurable experience it is going through Cork and Shannon airports — obviously if it is a transatlantic flight...

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I welcome the Minister of State. Along with Senator Ó Murchú, I am comfortable with Government policy, both in recent times and for the past 26 years, going back to the Bahrain declaration made by the Minister of State's father, the late Mr. Brian Lenihan. Our policy has been informed by our experience of peacekeeping and the peace process, as well as by the entire history of dispossession...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Apr 2006)

Martin Mansergh: Like everyone else in this House, I deplore the squalid murder of Mr. Denis Donaldson that took place in Donegal, compounding the tragedy for those close to him. I welcome the unequivocal condemnation by the Sinn Féin leadership, which I believe to be sincere. I hope those agencies that used Mr. Donaldson to make various manoeuvres, feel suitably proud of themselves today, but I suspect they...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: In reality the point of proposed recommendations in a Seanad debate is simply to allow particular mattters to be discussed. There is no question of the Minister changing his budgetary arithmetic at this stage. I would always have been a supporter of the individualisation process because living in a household of women of different generations, it seemed to me that there was a sharp...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I accept that Senator McDowell has always spoken honestly and to a degree for himself rather than for the Labour Party. Nonetheless, I compliment him on coming to a progressive position on this issue. Nowadays older women are going back into the workforce. In Government Buildings I once had a secretary who had been forced to leave the Civil Service on the marriage bar and returned under a...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: The financial powers of the Seanad are different from those of the Dáil.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: Could this not be raised on the Adjournment?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I must protest. This is irrelevant to the Finance Bill and we have limited time to discuss the Bill.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: It is irrelevant to the Finance Bill.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: The Senator is talking about the Redundancy Payments Acts.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: The Minister for Finance would not be doing his duty if he did not maintain the maximum flexibility for the future, including any unforeseen circumstances that might arise. I applaud him for not making commitments that would tie him down unduly. There is the old chestnut of indexing bands. It is far better that the Minister for Finance increase bands by more than the rate of inflation some...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2006 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: I am not sure I like engaging in political hare coursing but we will have to chase a few——

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: With regard to energy supply, which we should debate, Senator Ryan will not march to Carnsore Point any time soon. There will be no nuclear power generation in this State for the foreseeable future.

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Mar 2006)

Martin Mansergh: Yes. We should debate energy supply, including the bringing on shore of natural gas and the development of natural gas supplies in the interior in the north west, and not only alternative energy resources.