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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: Yes, the Seanad can meet after the general election is called.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I wish to clarify a point of Senator Fitzgerald. The House will sit until the Seanad election is held, which will most probably be on 4 May next.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: Yes, I am merely providing a clarification.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: However, I wish to correct the inaccuracy uttered by Senator Fitzgerald. Senator Alex White is a poacher turned gamekeeper because he used the Order of Business very well to promote his election to Dáil Éireann. Now he wants a new challenge-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: The Cathaoirleach has been extremely flexible and I hope he will go forward as a candidate for election to the next Seanad.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: The fact that the House is sitting today - this point relates to Seanad reform - and doing the State some, and hopefully great, service and that the Dáil is prepared to sit tomorrow night in the event of recommendations put forward by Members being accepted is a mark of the tremendous respect people have for this House.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I hope that recommendations put forward in this House will be accepted. The Seanad is embedded in the 1937 Constitution and has a role to play. The committees formed within the Houses are not contemplated within the Constitution. In that context, I am of the view that the Seanad has an extremely positive contribution to make. The responsibilities of many of the quangos that have been...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: -----and is going forward for election to the Dáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I hope that he and Senators Corrigan and Alex White will be successful in their endeavours. I thank Jimmy Walsh, who covers the proceedings of the House for The Irish Times, and his editor. I welcome the representatives from the media who are in the Gallery.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: This is an historical stage for this House and I wish Deputy Brian Cowen every success in the future, as he is an extraordinarily good Taoiseach. While the Cathaoirleach may not allow tributes, I sent him a text on Saturday.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I do not tweet. I simply stated that it was a sad day for his family and friends in Fianna Fáil and that he will be a major loss to the party at this crucial stage. I also sent him my best wishes.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I compliment him and the Green Party Ministers in Government. It was a very good one and I was satisfied to support it as a Senator. By way of illustration, I had intended to ask that the former Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan, who has resigned from the Government, would be invited to the House in order that I could compliment him on and discuss...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: ——the participation of the Green Party in government. Its members have done the State a great service. I was delighted to serve in this House with the former Deputy Leader, Senator Boyle, as well as Senators Ó Brolcháin and Dearey.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I simply make the point that they were great colleagues. I was delighted to work with them and I wish them well.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I would like to say more about them if I got the chance.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I asked for Labour Court intervention as opposed to Government intervention.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: It is 85 years since Fianna Fáil was founded in 1926.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I ask the Leader to arrange for the Minister for Transport or the new Minister for Transport to come to the House later today to discuss the crisis in Aer Lingus. A total of 2,700 passengers are awaiting flights. Seventeen routes have been cancelled and 34 flights cancelled. The IMPACT trade union and the management of Aer Lingus should be brought together to resolve this issue. I regard...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: Will the Leader arrange a debate on the Government's decentralisation programme which is efficient and effective?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jan 2011)

Terry Leyden: I would like the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, to be invited to come to the House. Yesterday the offices of the Property Registration Authority were opened on Golf Links Road in Roscommon town opposite the Sacred Heart Hospital. Some 90 civil servants will be employed there, with the potential to have 250 employees in total. The offices cost €11.5 million to build. I visited them...