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Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: It is time that we had——

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: If a murder trial was parsed and analysed and things allowed to be said by defendants and everyone else that were said about the Taoiseach, there would be no justice in the world. I am surprised that Fine Gael and the Labour Party do not understand the dangers inherent in allowing a Taoiseach to be tormented without due process because nobody is safe in Fine Gael and the Labour Party from...

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: It is very wrong for Fine Gael and the Labour Party to pretend they do not know that, to take one example of the distortions caused by tribunal reporting, there is hardly a cumann in the country, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, or the Labour Party, which at some stage has not made sums of money available to bury somebody——

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: ——to marry somebody, to help someone out of a hole.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: I cast no aspersions.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: I am pointing out that the Celia Larkin affair whereby the St. Luke's constituency office loaned her money——

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: ——is reported——

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: ——as if no cumann in the country had ever made financial arrangements of a difficult nature——

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: ——whereas in fact cumanns regularly make irregular and other arrangements, to bury, marry or help people out.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: I would also point out that the death by 1,000 cuts which is being inflicted on the Taoiseach could just as easily been applied to the former leader of Fine Gael, Mr. Garret FitzGerald, with his special arrangement with Allied Irish Banks, and who would not have been able to survive that kind of pressure and scrutiny.

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: How would his motives have been represented?

Seanad: Order of Business. (4 Mar 2008)

Eoghan Harris: In its passion to put down the Taoiseach Fine Gael is digging itself a deep grave.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Eoghan Harris: Have the Members finished?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2008)

Eoghan Harris: They have all been waffling; they should give me some order. I congratulate the Cathaoirleach on what Buddhist meditation experts would call his startled reaction time. The speed at which he now reacts to Senator Regan's coat-trailing is getting faster and faster. I will not interfere and have him rule me out of order. However, I cannot let it pass without referring to Senator Regan...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Eoghan Harris: It is with great reluctance that I rise to put on the record of the House my concern about today's report in The Irish Times that it is proposed to remove the poetry of Cathal Ó Searcaigh from the Leaving Certificate syllabus. I say "rise with reluctance" because it is almost impossible to say anything about this terrible matter without being misunderstood. For the record, I do not approve...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2008)

Eoghan Harris: I was struck by the silence of The Irish Times on this issue. Everyone is petrified of the Ó Searcaigh case. There is total silence — not a word of protest — from the great liberal organ The Irish Times this morning. I deplore any abuse by Cathal Ó Searcaigh of his position in the Third World, but I also deplore any measure that would remove a poet from the syllabus in Ireland. We...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)

Eoghan Harris: Like Senator Norris, I wish to assure the Cathaoirleach I do not intend to breach his recommendation not to discuss our move. However, Senator MacSharry is quite right to raise the matter of the image of the House and I wish to make a small comment on this. Like any political institution, the greatest danger facing the Seanad is that of being too pompous about its image. The Seanad has been...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2008)

Eoghan Harris: I accept that. However it came about or however it may be reformed in the future, the Seanad is likely to be a permanent part of the institutions of the State, not least because it would require approximately 50 amendments of the Constitution to remove it. In the meantime, I suggest we go about our business. The populist sneer is that we are a talking shop. What else would we be in a...

Seanad: The 70th Anniversary of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (7 Feb 2008)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: The 70th Anniversary of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (7 Feb 2008)

Eoghan Harris: On the day that is in it, it is worth pointing out that one of the valuable provisions of the Constitution is Article 38, which provides for special courts. I do not want to rain on the peace process but it produces platitudes from time to time. It is good to examine the credit and debit sides. On the credit side, there is the Taoiseach's visit to Dundalk to meet the First Minister and...