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Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: I move an amendment to the Order of Business, that No. 11 be taken before No. 1 today.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I was attempting to accommodate my colleague's amnesia. I welcome Senator Naughton to the House. I hope she has many happy and fruitful years here. I note that she is a classically trained soprano, which will be good news when the Taoiseach lights up the Christmas tree. He needs singers every Christmas. I see too that she played the part of Eliza Doolittle in...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: The reason none of the amendments is being moved is that the Fianna Fáil Party Members have left the House, because the House just conscripted a man onto a committee from which he tried to resign. I am afraid it is the atmosphere of Leinster House these days which is really worrying. I say that as a person who supports this Minister in his reform, because it is absolutely essential....

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: If I am to be removed as well as all the other Senators, then that is fine, but I think it is very important that we have some guarantees that there will be balance in the committees, because the committee structure stands discredited.

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: I would like to move amendment No. 3.

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: Then I will join Senator Byrne outside the House. This has been a disastrous day for the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: At 3.26 p.m. yesterday the Department of Finance informed my office that it had decided not to respond to the European Commission's consultation paper on structural reform of the banking sector. I raise this matter in the context of No. 30 on the Order Paper and of discussions in which I, as a Member of this honourable House, engaged with the Department. I took it upon myself to make a...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: -----when the Department of Finance would not do so. It is particularly ironic that the Minister of State at that Department, Deputy Brian Hayes, who agreed to the arrangement whereby there would be no response to the consultation paper, will yet again be seeking the abolition of the Seanad or perhaps the cycling Taoiseach will take a day off from his bike in order to come before us on that...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: Some of these regulations seem to assume that it is a person from Mars who has a VHI subscription. We also have entitlements as taxpayers, and I would ask that this be borne in mind. I agree with Senator Burke that doing it on a more gradual basis is to be commended. People can be members of two schemes. Are we saying that a person with VHI must waive all entitlements that he or she has...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: I wish a happy 95th birthday to Nelson Mandela. I have here the tributes to him when he got his honorary degree in Trinity College Dublin in 2000. Professor John Luce stated: "With all due respects, I now present to you our past century's most outstanding champion of human rights, His Excellency, Nelson Mandela." The accolade to him concludes: You see before you a man of exceptional...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: She will not be silenced by Fine Gael.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: Shameful.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: It should have been done earlier. The chance has been missed.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: Shame.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: They made it up.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: He is now abolishing their votes. Shameful man.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: -----published by the Government as part of its case to abolish the House, the €20 million. A Senator's salary is €65,000 and multiplied by 60 equals €3.9 million but the Government gets half that sum back in taxes. The salaries of Members of the Dáil, who face a very small cut of under 5%, are 34% higher. The Government wants to transfer the work that we do for...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Sean Barrett: When I think of Northern Ireland I think of Gordon Wilson, Ken Whitaker, John D. A. Robb Bríd Rodgers, Maurice Hayes and Seamus Mallon who were splendid people. They will never be elected to the Dáil but I am sure that will satisfy the Minister of State and his supporters.