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- Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2009)
Paudie Coffey: Enough damage had been done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2009)
Paudie Coffey: The Senator should back down when in a corner.
- Seanad: Energy Resources: Motion (6 May 2009)
Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Martin Mansergh, to the House and also the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Calleary, who has left. Deputy Calleary sat with me on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security and I wish him well in his Ministry. New Ministers might bring new ideas to Government and ideas and new vision are needed now. I compliment Senator...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: Come into the real world, Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: It might not be the case for much longer.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: Was Deputy McGuinness left outside?
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: Is he a Kilkenny footballer?
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: I support the calls for a debate on the economy. I understand Senator Boyle's frustrations and why he wishes to blame the global markets. However, it is not the Opposition that is making these statements but the ESRI, an independent organisation. It said in its report that Ireland will experience the sharpest fall in economic growth of any industrialised country since the Great Depression....
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: Who has been in power for most of the past 20 years? The answer is Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: The Leader's party has been in government for the better part of 20 years.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: We brought the economy back to life and we will do so again.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: We created 1,000 jobs per week.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: We created 1,000 jobs per week in the 1980s.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: I agree with the calls from my colleagues for a debate on health care. Fine Gael has proposed an alternative policy which deserves debate in this House and I ask the Leader to facilitate this at an early stage. The Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, came to the House some time ago to discuss the cancer strategy. She proposed at that time that we would have centres of...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: We do not have it in Donegal.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: We did not have it in Waterford until a few months ago.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: It is not nationwide, as was promised.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing: Statements (8 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: The Government Senators would not listen, they did not want to listen.
- Seanad: Affordable Housing: Statements (8 Apr 2009)
Paudie Coffey: I welcome the Minister of State to the House to debate this very important issue. It not only concerns affordable housing but also housing in general. When concluding, the Minister of State claimed we are now in radically different circumstances than those we were 18 months ago or even 12 months ago. I certainly concur with this but remind him that his predecessor, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, was...