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Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I share the sorrow and sympathy expressed across the House concerning the tragedy in Inishowen. I come from the small county of Leitrim, which only has a population of 30,000. Inishowen is like my wife's area of west County Cork. While it is part of the broader county, it is a tightly knit community. The devastation visited on the good people of that part of the country can only evoke the...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I ask the Leader to convey the thanks of the House.

Seanad: Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: Senator, there is no-----

Seanad: Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: The fact the Senator was not addressing the Chair means that what he said is probably not being recorded. What he offered is not in the protocol.

Seanad: Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: What did the Senator then go on to say?

Seanad: Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2009: Second Stage (7 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: There is no such thing as a point of clarification.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: Senators may be aware of newspaper reports today of the possible death by stoning of a lady called Mrs. Ashtiani in the Islamic Republic of Iran. I ask the Leader to convey to the Minister for Foreign Affairs the deep horror of this House, which I am sure would be agreed on, at this proposed execution. The Minister, acting in the name of Ireland, should add his voice and Ireland's voice to...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I wish to refer briefly to a report in today's edition of the Irish Independent which states that having received 99 lashes for her alleged adultery she now faces the imminent prospect of execution and will be wrapped from head to toe in white shroud, buried up to her chest and stoned. The stones will be large enough to cause severe injury, but not so big that she will be killed outright....

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I share the concern of Senator Ross. I ask the Leader, if there is an opportunity at some point, to bring the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, before the House, perhaps when we debate the Central Bank Reform Bill, to outline his reaction to what, as Senator Ross correctly said, has been a group of bankers at senior level in this country who have been lying through their teeth, not...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I congratulate the new Fine Gael front bench and wish it well. My particular interest is that two of the members of the Fine Gael Party who represent Leitrim, Deputy John Perry from Sligo-North Leitrim and Deputy Frank Feighan from Roscommon-South Leitrim, have been elevated to the front bench and I wish them well in their role.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I feel compelled to defend the integrity, commitment and passion the Minister of State, Deputy John Moloney, brings to disability issues here. I attended a meeting yesterday with colleagues at which he outlined his plans for the coming months and responded to the controversy over respite care. Deputy John Cregan referred to one of the front-line cutbacks in a respite home in Limerick where...

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I thank Members on all sides of the House for participating in an interesting and incisive debate. I am the first to acknowledge that just because public representatives, Deputies or Senators, are in opposition they are not devoid of ideas. Democracy works through the pooling of ideas. If one has an effective Opposition, it should be in a position not only to criticise and call the...

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: The Senator is selling his soul. He has been bought.

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I will be eternally grateful.

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I move: Seanad Éireann welcomes the Government's new Employer Job (PRSI) Incentive Scheme which will help to create jobs and get people back to work. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. This motion in the name of the Government side welcomes the Government's new employers' job PRSI incentive scheme which will help to create jobs and get people back to work. I appreciate that the detail of...

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: The Government is totally committed to getting people back to work. It is the number one priority of the Government. I fail to understand why there is criticism even outside of the body politic. I doubt if there is one Member of either this House or the other House who is serving as a public representative who is not aware of the acute trauma and pain being experienced by families who find...

Seanad: Employers' Job Incentive Scheme: Motion (30 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I have no doubt that every element of the Government's actions must be driven by the confidence that the tourism industry can recover and provide jobs that will filter down to every town and parish. I commend the motion to the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: I share the comments made, particularly by Senators O'Toole and Norris but I am sure by others also, on the EUROSTAT survey. In fact, it is not a concern any more, it is real anger at a multinational which is hiding behind statistics and the assumption that somehow because we are an island nation we have higher transport and taxation costs. The EUROSTAT survey blows that argument completely...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: It is using the most despicable habits and activities to put pressure on suppliers in this country. It is time it was brought to book. This is not about cost anymore or creating or maintaining jobs but capitalist greed that is driving this particular multinational to keep prices artificially high. It is long past time that it was stopped.

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2010)

Paschal Mooney: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?