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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: I wrote to all the councillors last December appealing to them not to do this in January's budget discussion. I wrote to the county manager and have delivered 5,000 leaflets on the matter. This is bad policy.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: My question is as follows. I am asking the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, or whoever may become the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to intervene in the matter. When a council cuts across its own development plan and national policies on social inclusion-----

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: -----it is required that the Minister would intervene in the matter. There is no disagreement in the House on this issue and I ask the Leader to address that question to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: It is obvious we have touched a sore point, judging by the last outburst from Senator Hanafin. We have been concerned in the past week about a rift in Government between the Green Party and Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: Senator Butler said he never interrupted anybody.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: Now we appear to have a rift within the Green Party——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: ——and the Leader might be able to throw some light on this——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: ——rotation of posts.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: We should understand that for what it is, however, because it is the worst form of cronyism. It is not about party or country. It is about individual jobs for the boys.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: We had the Green Party preach before the last election——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: Senator Butler is out of order again. We had the Green Party preach about cronyism. Since the last election we have had appointments of Green Party candidates to FÁS, the National Disability Authority, the Organic Food Agency——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: It is a question to the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: We have also had appointments to the Library Council, the Irish Film Classification Office and the Private Residential Tenancies Board. We also had the spectacle of a Senator who rejected the Green Party because she failed to get appointed to the cabinet of the European Commission——

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: ——an independent office. Does the Green Party not see what it is doing? This is damaging politics.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: It promised to clean up cronyism. It rejected its own Bill on cronyism in this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: It is indicted on this issue. This is a serious distraction from the problems of the country.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Bill 2009: Second Stage (2 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: I agree with the Minister on the importance of the Bill and that as a responsible and committed member of the European Union, Ireland needs to transpose this directive and to do so without delay. The reputation of this country and of the International Financial Services Centre makes it imperative to have the best practice standard of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: I question why we are being given the runaround with regard to a debate on the banks and NAMA. The only logical explanation is that the Government is all at sea on the banks and totally confused with the results from the banks such as those from AIB today. The implications for the Government of the corrections to the NAMA scheme in final approval being given by the Commission may not yet...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: Subject to very strict conditions.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Mar 2010)

Eugene Regan: Playing for time again.