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Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: The Senator is incorrect about this €6 one-off fee.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: The Greens are trying to include provisions that should not be in the Bill at all.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: Bring the Bill to Report Stage and we can debate it then.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: Someone knows.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: Our children are leaving the country.

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: It is time for the Leader to listen to the youth.

Seanad: Dental Services (20 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: Before I speak to the Adjournment matter I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Deputy Seán Connick, to the House. It is my first opportunity to congratulate him publicly on his elevation to Minister of State and I wish him well. He will do his very best for the people of Wexford and the south east and I, as a fellow parliamentarian from the...

Seanad: Dental Services (20 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I note no final decision has been taken, which presents a window of opportunity. We must acknowledge the excellent preventative work carried out by dentists on the teeth of medical card holders and I have outlined the benefits of that. The Minister of State said the HSE is examining the issue. I ask him to urge the executive and the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: There is more hot air there, too.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: There it goes again.

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: The messages, language and actions of leadership in this country and the messages the public is receiving are very important. Regarding the banking sector, when we see Mr. Boucher accepting the massive increase in his pension entitlements, which is an entitlement according to this contract, it sends the wrong message to the public and to those under serious pressure paying their monthly...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Apr 2010)

Paudie Coffey: That was very dangerous advice. It is a lesson to us, as political leaders and a political class, that we need to be responsible and very careful in the messages we give and the language we use. It is time we had a debate on this because many wrong messages are being given and many wrong actions are being taken. It is not giving our people hope and we need to debate it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Paudie Coffey: I agree with colleagues and welcome the Cabinet decision to do a U-turn on a search and rescue helicopter emergency service in the south east. That decision should never have been made and the reversal of it is a victory for people power and common sense. I am glad the decision was reversed. Today, a burden of over €5,000 will be placed on every man, woman and child in the country as a...

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Paudie Coffey: It was the people of the south east, not the Deputies who represent Fianna Fáil, who had the decision reversed.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Paudie Coffey: Those in government have changed their minds on the matter. They made the wrong decision in the first instance.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Paudie Coffey: The Leader should get his facts right.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Paudie Coffey: The people of the south east got on the backs of those in government for making a crazy decision on the matter.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Paudie Coffey: The people in my area got on the backs of those in government. It was the Government which made an incorrect decision in the first instance.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Paudie Coffey: The people of the south east have spoken.

Seanad: Order of Business. (31 Mar 2010)

Paudie Coffey: De Valera.