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Seanad: Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Frank Feighan: I ask some Members to look at last weekend's Sunday Business Postin which Mr. Eamon Delaney from the Hibernia Forum wrote a very interesting article about Ireland and the Commonwealth. It reinforces my views that there is no better time than now to rejoin or else be an associate member of the Commonwealth of Nations. He went on to say that Éamon de Valera and Kevin O'Higgins were...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)

Frank Feighan: I also join Senator Victor Boyhan in referring to the National Rehabilitation Hospital. It is disappointing to see beds being closed. However, there is also a good news story in that a 12-bed rehabilitation unit will be built at Roscommon County Hospital. The project is in the planning stages, but it will be a rehabilitation unit for the west. It will involve the decentralisation of a...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)

Frank Feighan: I ask that we invite leaders of other countries or principalities to the Seanad. In that context, Ms Nicola Sturgeon has already addressed the House. We should invite other leaders to inform us of what is happening, their fears about Brexit and what they are doing about it. This would not undermine our negotiating stance and the Seanad could inform the representatives of the territories in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Frank Feighan: The Minister brought foward this Bill nearly a month ago and I was probably the first politician who said it could be seen as anti-rural. I also said any measure that reduced the number of deaths on the roads was very welcome. I pointed out that in the Minister's constituency of Dublin South one could hail a taxi, take a bus or walk to the pub. In the town in which I live I cannot avail of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Frank Feighan: I grew up at a time when drink-driving was acceptable. It was not frowned upon. I used to always remark that people gave up drink-driving not because they could kill themselves or somebody else but because they would lose their licence or their insurance would go up. We need legislation to address it. The Minister said that drink-driving is a major problem again. Based on what I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Frank Feighan: Is it drink-driving or drug-driving? I just want to tease out the figures. Drug-driving is another ingredient that was not there 20 years ago. Is there another ingredient other than alcohol that we may be mixing up? I would have thought, and most of my contemporaries would have thought, that drink-driving was absolutely on the decrease and thankfully so.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: Tell that to Deputy Paul Murphy.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: At least the Senator left Fine Gael alone.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: On a lighter note, my local soccer team, Boyle Celtic, has qualified to compete in the final four of the FAI Junior Cup and a song has been penned in its honour.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: The song has reached No. 1 on the iTunes download and left Ed Sheeran in a poor second place. The semi-final will be played on Sunday week. The club's success is great for the whole area and Boyle town.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: The Senator can download it for €1.29, if she does not mind. I agree with my colleagues that Brexit will bring challenges. The European Medicines Agency will come to this country. I was the first Senator to highlight that it should come to the west of Ireland and to Carrick-on-Shannon. It will be great if it comes to the island of Ireland. Dublin is creaking at the seams and we...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: We speak English in the west of Ireland as well. We need these jobs in the west of Ireland.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: We speak English an awful lot better because we have our own distinguished accent in the west of Ireland that is recognised internationally

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: People from abroad wishing to learn English can understand us because there are too many different accents in Dublin.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: I call on the Taoiseach and many more, that if these jobs come to Ireland, they must do everything possible to get them past Mullingar because the west of Ireland needs high quality jobs.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: One can drive from Dublin Airport to Carrick-in-Shannon in an hour and a half but it can take the same amount of time to travel from Dublin Airport into the centre of Dublin. That is one I shall make today.

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Minister to the House. He is no stranger to the Seanad. I thank him for his hard work over the past few years, much of which has been conducted in London and Belfast. For some time, we have known Brexit was coming. Yesterday was a very interesting, for want of a better word, day for the UK, as Prime Minister Therese May triggered the formal two-year process of negotiations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: When I first became involved in politics, a very good friend of mine told me that the fight is never what the fight is about. Obviously this dispute is about wider issues. The Minister said that some feel that the commercial licensing regime is somewhat flawed. I ask him to elaborate on the licensing issues. What issues do the unions and other stakeholders have with the scheme? The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: No. The Minister did not misread his statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Frank Feighan: All I said was that myself and others feel that the licensing is flawed.