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- Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: I know we have to start someplace and the current time is difficult but it seems that objective will be exceedingly difficult to achieve. Nonetheless, we have to set objectives. The stabilisation fund the Government introduced has had some success and was a good development, from the Government's point of view. I was interested at the time we had the last discussion in this House to note...
- Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: God forbid.
- Seanad: Innovation and Job Creation: Statements (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: Senator à Brolcháin does not look like a dairy farmer.
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: I am glad to have the opportunity to reminisce about Peter. He had a tremendous impact on my formative years in this House. I became a Member eight years ago. Like Peter, I was elected on the Agricultural Panel and came from a very strong farming background. He represented a generation of Irish people who are becoming scarce. Two years ago my father who would have been approximately the...
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: We discussed the upcoming Seanad election, in which we were on the same panel. In the most unusual of elections one does not really compete with individuals from other parties but with individuals within one's own party. Peter was worried, as we all are at election time. The next time I saw him was at the count with his daughter who I believe is in the Visitors Gallery. I cannot remember...
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: The year 1979 has been mentioned and it was a great one in many respects. In a way, I won an election, as I was born in that year, as my name suggests. I do not mean this in a partisan way, but Peter always struck me as the most Fine Gael of Fianna Fáil members.
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: I mean it in the nicest sense.
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: I always felt I could have a conversation with Peter. I was deeply sorry to be out of the country when he passed away, but a month ago I attended the wedding in Clonakilty of two of my college friends. I had driven through Innishannon but decided to go back up the hill to the church. I parked my car, but as there was no one there, I did not really know where I was going. I went to the new...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: I wish to raise two issues with the Leader. When is it proposed to hold a debate on care of the elderly, which debate has been sought for some time? The Leader has indicated he is amenable to having such a debate. Would it be possible to have it before the Houses rises for the summer? Senator McFadden, other Senators and I have raised in this House the issue of the Health Information and...
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: Has the Senator joined Fianna Fáil?
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: The Senator is such a hypocriteââ
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: ââgiven all he said about Fianna Fáil during the years.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: Deputy Kenny is twice the man that the Taoiseach is.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: The Senator might have missed that Fianna Fáil is in government.
- Seanad: Confidence in the Taoiseach: Motion (16 Jun 2010)
John Paul Phelan: That is convenient.