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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: No, a Chathaoirligh, being in opposition, Members are delighted with the information provided.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: This is wonderful news. The Senator should tell Members more.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: Tell us more.

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: One or two of them have.

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: I apologise for interrupting but would it be possible to obtain copies of the Minister of State's speech?

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I appreciate he probably received his script on his way into the Chamber as it is the nature of the business. Perhaps in his capacity as head of the main procurement agency for the Government he will send a memo to all Ministers and Ministers of State to state when they come before the House they might at least have the courtesy to make their initial...

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: I am not in any way attempting to put the Minister of State on the spot but the point might be made. This is not the first time this has happened and it also happened under the previous Administration. It is important that we put it on the record and we will leave it at that.

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: I have no wish to in any way embarrass the Minister of State. That was not my intention.

Seanad: Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. Over the past five years the IMF has had an ambitious programme of reform. As the Minister of State correctly pointed out, this is the latest in a series of reform mechanisms. The previous Administration introduced similar legislation at the beginning of the process in 2010. The executive board will be reduced to 20 members from 24 and they will be elected....

Seanad: Immigrant Investor Programme and Start-Up Entrepreneur Scheme: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: I was thinking about the group of Irish Americans who put themselves forward to give advice.

Seanad: Immigrant Investor Programme and Start-Up Entrepreneur Scheme: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: I referred to North-South tourist visas for people from China.

Seanad: Immigrant Investor Programme and Start-Up Entrepreneur Scheme: Statements (9 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I welcome the Minister to the House. In my long association with the Minister, Deputy Shatter, I have come to know his style and this initiative has the stamp of his inventive thinking all over it. I applaud the Minister for hitting the ground running in this regard. As the Minister suggested, our recent history has been littered with similar attempts to...

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: Is Senator Sheahan listening to his colleague about no closures?

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: I am grateful to the Minister of State for elaborating on the motion, as amended, by the Fianna Fáil group. I could not help but remark to my colleague that if we were on the other side of House, we would probably be making the same argument. I do not mean any disrespect to those who work full-time in the Department of Education and Skills. It is inevitable - it always happens - that when...

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: -----on the basis of media reports-----

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: I want to do it in order to put it on the record of the House.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: If Senator Landy wants me to be absolutely correct about the comment that was made to a Government Senator-----

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: I have obviously touched a sensitive nerve here. The comment I am going to make, which was often made to us when we were on the Government side, is "Look in the mirror - you are in government now, boys and girls". The Senators opposite have to face up to that particular reality.

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: When they do that, they will also have to learn a lesson that we learned. Certain sacred cows have to be treated with great sensitivity in this country. One of them is the whole question of rural Ireland in its entirety. There is absolutely no doubt now in the minds of the people. I heard a Senator referring to the mandate the Government received a year ago. If there was an election in...

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

Paschal Mooney: The Senators opposite should be comfortable for the moment and enjoy their time in power. I remind them that public opinion has a strange way of coming back to bite one on the legs. On what is happening with rural schools and the whole rural issue, I saw it happening with the mistake and the debacle over the medical card issue, which was the most incompetent political decision any...