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Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: It is about sandbags——

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: On a point of order, have we started Second Stage of the Social Welfare Bill on the Order of Business?

Seanad: Order of Business. (23 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: The Senator can squeeze to his heart's content on the Bill.

Seanad: Civil Liability and Courts Bill 2004: Second Stage. (11 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: I welcome the Minister and his officials. This is an important, substantial and, perhaps slightly unusually, cost-reducing Bill. I will dwell for a moment on its economic importance. It is obviously about reducing the cost of insurance claims and — something on which the Minister may not have placed undue emphasis — associated legal costs and, by extension, the costs on business. There is...

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: It must be withdrawn without qualification.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: The provision of 68,000 houses was not too bad.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: The Senator is embarrassing himself.

Seanad: Draft Guidelines on Rural Housing: Statements. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: And Tipperary.

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: While I have great regard for those who work in the public transport services, we should not take the path of political strikes. It might perhaps be useful to have a debate——

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: ——on social partnership, since Ministers and trade unions have an equal responsibility to operate within that spirit.

Seanad: Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: It happened before the State began.

Seanad: Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: The Senator should not presume that I will be losing anything.

Seanad: Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: "acknowledges and endorses the commitment of the Government to good governance in State-sponsored Bodies, including its approach to the appointment of board members to such bodies." I declare an interest, in that when the Leader was Minister, she appointed me to the philatelic advisory committee...

Seanad: Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: ——because of the contribution she felt I could make rather than because of any party affiliation. This motion was tabled by the three Independent Senators from Trinity College, plus Senator Fergal Quinn. Without casting any aspersions on the movers of the motion or attributing to them any——

Seanad: Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: ——nostalgia for the old order, the historian in me cannot——

Seanad: Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: The historian in me cannot help but observe the irony that a century or two ago, Trinity College proved to have the overwhelming number of placemen, apart from those who were brought from across the water. As the Duke of Wellington once observed when he was young, every gentleman in Ireland had his price.

Seanad: Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: As Shakespeare observed: "Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges." We now have the reign of virtue and sea-green incorruptibility from Trinity, which is probably a very good thing.

Seanad: Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: If carefully looked at, the motion refers to reforming——

Seanad: Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: Does the Senator have any manners at all?

Seanad: Appointments to Semi-State Bodies: Motion. (10 Mar 2004)

Martin Mansergh: College lout.