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Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: Let the Minister finish. The Senator can respond then.

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: The question is: "That the words proposed to be deleted stand."

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: Are you withdrawing the amendment?

Seanad: Education (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: Amendments Nos. 17 to 33, inclusive, are related and alternative to each other, and amendment No. 41 is also related. Is it agreed that amendments Nos. 17 to 33, inclusive, and No. 41 be discussed together? Agreed.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: Yes. In the preamble the term "permanent provisions, preferably constitutional" is used, but the treaty does not promote these as such. That is an enormous change. Two countries, namely, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom, have opted out of the treaty, in which there is no provision that the European Parliament should, even on the basis of courtesy, be consulted. It merely states,...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: The Government will run from the referendum. It is terrified of the Irish electorate after being in government for 12 months.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: I want to put a warning-----

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: I am making a point. We discussed this with the Tánaiste last Thursday week and we are familiar with what is in the draft proposals. The Government will have a tough fight on its hands. When Fianna Fáil makes its decision on the treaty debate it will be in the best interests of the Irish people. A referendum should be held.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: I support the call made by Senator Darragh O'Brien, the Leader of the Opposition, for an early debate - certainly next week - on the Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union. It is vital that such a debate take place, particularly in this House which has control of the issues that can be discussed here. The Government is going to be reluctant to...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: Will the Deputy Leader indicate whether there will be a debate in this House once the findings of the Moriarty tribunal are published? I commend Mr. Paul Melia and Mr. Michael Brennan of the IrishIndependent who, on Tuesday last, 17 January, published details of the cost of the tribunal, which are now running at almost €50 million. The tribunal has created no fewer than 17 millionaire...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: These details are a matter of public record through their publication in the Irish Independent. Ms Eunice O'Raw earned €4.2 million and Mr. John Gallagher received €3.21 million.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: The Cathaoirleach would have to serve 80 years in this House to equal the remuneration of the top earners. Imagine 80 years in this vineyard.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: Gross amounts of money have been paid. The one man who raised this issue, over and over again, was Senator Jim Walsh. His was a voice in the wilderness, pointing out that, for example, the daily rate of pay for senior counsel at the start of the tribunal was more than €2,250, and €1,500 for a junior counsel. Where else in the world would that level of pay be available?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: The Taoiseach is more anxious to get rid of this House than he is to get rid of the tribunal.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: The Oireachtas is being billed for €2 million in respect of the hearings regarding Judge Brian Curtin. That is a scandal. It is about time we had a 90% super-tax on the earnings of lawyers. It is absolutely outrageous how they are ripping off this country. I am aware that the Deputy Leader is some type of lawyer or professor of law. She may have a difficulty in denouncing her colleagues.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: Will the Deputy Leader give a commitment to the House that the report of the tribunal will, immediately upon its publication, be brought before this House for discussion of its findings? That debate must include consideration of the obscene costs of the tribunal. There should be a tribunal into the tribunal to discover what went wrong.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: Not at all.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: I thought I was most complimentary to the Senator who is both a very brilliant lawyer and a professor at Trinity College, Dublin.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jan 2012)

Terry Leyden: I have great admiration for the Senator's ability and her qualifications.