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Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: The Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children should come to the House and tell us whether budgetary constraints will lead to these elderly people being put out on the streets for the winter. It is an outrageous attack on the elderly people of this country.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I never met the late Liam Lawlor but believe he was a very jovial person among his colleagues. I was shocked when I opened the Sunday Independent on Sunday last. As Senator Tuffy stated, even if the story was true, it was still inappropriate. Reference was made to circulation and what happened with regard to The Sun newspaper in Liverpool, when readers boycotted it. Independent Newspapers has...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I join with Senator Finucane in calling for the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to examine the way in which additional charges are placed on personal alarms. This scheme now penalises rather than benefits the elderly. I have received numerous complaints in my own constituency in Roscommon about the number of people who cannot afford to pay the additional charge of €165,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I join colleagues in condemning the attack on the proposal to award pensions to councillors. Everyone has a go at councillors but it has gone too far this time. Public sector pensions are very attractive and agents of the public sector who virtually act as a public relations department and liaise between constituents and Government and county councils should have their work recognised....

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: The Senator should move to this side of the House.

Seanad: National Sporting Facilities: Motion (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I am sure it will be on Shannonside Radio in the morning.

Seanad: National Sporting Facilities: Motion. (12 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: "—criticising the €7 million reduction in funding under the Sports Capital Programme for 2005, a reduction of 13% on last year; —disappointed at the obvious regional disparity and inequity in the manner in which monies are allocated under the Sports Capital Programme; —condemning the fact...

Seanad: National Sporting Facilities: Motion. (12 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: If the Minister gives that responsibility to the Irish Sports Council, we will not be able to hassle him by saying that certain decisions were too political or not political enough.

Seanad: National Sporting Facilities: Motion. (12 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: Does the Minister have any spare tickets?

Seanad: Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: In an article in a leading Sunday newspaper, a very respected and influential journalist raised the notion that the IRA is able to smuggle large quantities of fuel into this country through ports in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Apparently, the IRA is involved in such an extensive smuggling operation that the original godfather himself, Don Corleone, would be very proud. The...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects. (11 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: National Heritage Week. (11 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State at the Department of the Environtment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Noel Ahern, for coming to the House to respond to this Adjournment matter, which concerns the need for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to outline the breakdown of the funding given to promote national heritage week on a county basis. There is also a need...

Seanad: National Heritage Week. (11 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Minister of State for the broad outline of national heritage week funding. I am a little disappointed the Department does not compile the costs. Will the Minister of State ask if a breakdown of funding to promote national heritage week on a county or heritage site basis can be made available? How could I find out these costs?

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I join Senator Kitt in calling for a debate on the western rail corridor. Everything is in place for this decision and it requires funding in the next budget. We need cross-party support on this issue. We know that Iarnród Éireann has been very slow to invest in the west of Ireland and it will have to be brought kicking and screaming to ensure that it does invest in the western rail...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: I also congratulate the Dublin north central drugs unit on conducting the raid on the crack cocaine factory in Phibsboro. Last Monday, there were three drugs seizures, one at Dublin Airport, one in Clondalkin and one in Dublin. I cannot agree with Senator Norris that there are good reasons for legalising cannabis. I can think of many reasons for ensuring that it remains an illegal drug——

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Oct 2005)

Frank Feighan: It is a gateway drug to crack cocaine. I agree with Senator Norris about the many social problems which crack cocaine has caused, as we have seen in the United States and elsewhere. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform should be invited to the House to outline what resources he needs and what he intends to do to ensure that crack cocaine does not take hold in our cities and...

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the Rafferty family to the Chamber and applaud their courage and conviction in seeking justice for the death of Joseph Rafferty. Many of us in this Chamber come from a very proud republican past, from the real Sinn Féin. We in Fine Gael, as in Fine Fáil, look forward to celebrating the real 100 years of Sinn Féin. My grandfather James Feely was a Sinn Féin councillor who was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Frank Feighan: I join my colleagues in welcoming the final act of decommissioning by the IRA and congratulate Senator Mansergh on his role in the pursuit of peace. Many practical decisions made in pursuit of peace were, however, unfair. I refer specifically to treatment of the SDLP, the true democratic party in Northern Ireland, which has been sidelined by the British and Irish Governments for too long. The...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Frank Feighan: As did two Fine Gael members.

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Jun 2005)

Frank Feighan: I join with colleagues in raising the issue of visas and work permits. Some months ago I raised on the Adjournment the case of a Canadian citizen living in my constituency who was married to a British citizen. She was told her visa would not be renewed. The visa was subsequently renewed but restrictions were imposed under which she was not allowed to carry out her work as a visually impaired...