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Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: For all of the speakers on both sides this is an important debate and I applaud Sinn Féin for having tabled the motion. The current debate about the presidency is timely in that the addition of a Sinn Féin candidate has opened up the entire debate and reopened the debate on Northern Ireland. Those of us who live in the South, and particularly those who live in the Border counties, held...

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: All we have heard is the particular narrative that the war was justified because of discrimination, that there was no alternative for the Nationalist people of Northern Ireland but to take up the gun. Where does that leave those who pursued the constitutional Nationalist narrrative? Are they to be consigned to the dustbin of history as if they do not count and that in the new Ireland, Sinn...

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: I wish to devote some of my time to the War of Independence. Constant comparisons are being made to the War of Independence. The War of Independence-----

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: -----was supported by the overwhelming majority of the people of Ireland. The war in the North, as the Senator calls it, was not supported by the overwhelming majority of the Nationalist population in Northern Ireland. That is the simple historical fact and the Senator can change it any way he wishes.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: I wish to put on the record-----

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: I accept 1916.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: I am not going to take a lecture on history.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: I am not rewriting history.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: Considering that the party of which Senator Cullinane is a member is a past master at rewriting history I am not taking a lecture from him.

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: Let us be fair about this. All I am saying is that the references to Michael Collins, Eamon De Valera and others who fought the War of Independence-----

Seanad: Presidential Elections: Motion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: It is very important in light of this motion and of the constitutional convention that an immediate and fast-track approach is taken to including the Irish diaspora in the presidential vote, not only because traditionally the many Irish to had to emigrate have had a continuing and abiding interest in Irish affairs. Given that we have seen a newer and younger generation of highly skilled and...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: Yesterday in the British newspapers there was a call from the British Government to its consumers to clear their credit card debt in order to help the economy. Perhaps it might be a question more relevant to tomorrow, but I ask the Leader to convey to the Minister for Finance the need to use whatever mechanisms might be available in order to publicise this matter. Some weeks ago I wrote to...

Seanad: Sport: Statements (4 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: The Minister of State will have a job convincing the Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Sport: Statements (4 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: Acting Chairwoman, in what order do you intend taking questions?

Seanad: Sport: Statements (4 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: I am sure the Leader will agree that while this is an innovative system we are operating, it is a little unfair that spokespersons having already got sufficient time to make a contribution in which I suggest they had the opportunity to ask questions of the Minister of State should now have a second bite at the cherry, thus preventing the remainder of us an opportunity to ask questions. I ask...

Seanad: Sport: Statements (4 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: It is nothing to do with the Government's budgetary or fiscal policy. Perhaps during his tenure the Minister of State will dust off the original Act and examine it to see whether we might be able to return to it. This could release more money for sport without putting any further imposition on the Exchequer.

Seanad: Sport: Statements (4 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: I knew the Minister of State would come out fighting.

Seanad: Sport: Statements (4 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: I have no doubt. I am grateful to the Minister of State.

Seanad: Sport: Statements (4 Oct 2011)

Paschal Mooney: There was something in the original legislation; there used to be an allocation.

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Sep 2011)

Paschal Mooney: If I heard the Minister correctly, he indicated, based on his experience as a medical doctor in an accident and emergency department, that one of the first medical procedures carried out on an injured person is that a blood sample is taken. He said that under existing law such a blood sample cannot be used and that he is amending the Act to change that. Does that suggest that two blood...