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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: What page is the Senator on?

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: What page is the Senator on?

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I thank Senator Callely and wish to develop one of his most important points which is the need to draw people in. I will not discuss gloom and doom tonight. The Minister of State, like the entire Cabinet, is showing the signs of the long days and nights. I do not know from where they get their stamina; they certainly earn their few bob. I appeal to the Minister of State, because he will...

Seanad: Middle East Conflict: Motion (26 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I am tempted to vote against the resolution because of the provocative nature of assumptions made with regard to use of phosphorus in statements about schools being bombed, which now are admitted not to have been bombed, but broadly because the motion calls for a two-state solution I will reluctantly support it. I want to talk about the wider hinterland of the Israeli question that involves...

Seanad: Middle East Conflict: Motion (26 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I was inclined to laugh at something Senator Norris stated but I did not.

Seanad: Middle East Conflict: Motion (26 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: The political class and media class in Ireland and Europe take the side of fundamentalist Islamic groups like Hamas, who want to return to Sharia law, that is the law of the barbarian, against the democratically elected Government of Israel. This will have huge and most likely lethal strategic consequences, not only for the prospect of peace in the Middle East, but for how we in Europe...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: In these hard times I ask that we take a moment to mark the passing of Christy Nolan. It is in no sentimental way that I say he is a metaphor for what we will have to do. He spent 43 years strapped in a wheelchair and with a device strapped to his forehead he tapped out three books, one of them a classic, namely, Under the Eye of the Clock. Yesterday, his sister, Yvonne, whom I know, wrote...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: There are three questions we must ask ourselves. How bad is this recession, whose fault — if anyone's — is it and what should be done? Judging by what I saw on television yesterday — I was in hospital and had a chance to watch television — and as viewed through the eyes of the general people, I have no evidence thus far that colleagues in the Upper or Lower House grasp the...

Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I did not mean to pick out Mr. Tubridy or any other RTE presenter. We all come up with excuses. The truth is the Taoiseach was correct to cut into the public sector. His one mistake was that he did not cut more deeply. He will have to do so in the future. I predict that the shortfall in Exchequer revenues will be in the order of €25 billion rather than €18 billion. I commend the...

Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Before Christmas, I predicted in this House that the number of people unemployed would reach 500,000. Some people outside this House told me I was insane to think that. I now believe that number will increase to 700,000, or 20%, by the end of the year. I was unable to be here yesterday, so I watched the proceedings of this House and the Lower House on television. I did not get any sense...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Everybody in Ireland is now looking for a scapegoat. That kind of anger is of no use at this time. Like alcoholics on a binge, we need to reach rock bottom. We need a reality check before we can rebuild.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2009)

Eoghan Harris: We need to face the fact that we might have the best part of a million people out of work. We need to stop playing party politics. I repeat the call I made before Christmas for a national Government. We need a national plan. We need to bring an end to this kind of partisan politics. We need reform and cutbacks, beginning with the political class. We should get real by making serious...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2008)

Eoghan Harris: It is well known that every generation fights the next war with the weapons of the last. Nothing that I heard today from any Member still measures the extent of the economic crisis, recession and more that is ahead of us. Even the smallest anecdotal encounter with the public will tell one that there are more lay-offs, shorter working times and people being stood down than ever appears in...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2008)

Eoghan Harris: We need a national government, as we had in the Second World War and a state of national emergency to be declared.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2008)

Eoghan Harris: At the risk of the Seanad becoming the equivalent of a type of afternoon television confessional programme where everybody whinges about everything all the time, now and again, we should lift our eyes up and say something positive. This kind of demented obsession with Bertie Ahern and money just lets down the person going on with that kind of stuff.