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Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2010)

Terry Leyden: I admire Senator Coghlan's passion. Former Taoiseach John Bruton is the current tsar of the Irish Financial Services Centre, IFSC, and is doing an excellent job promoting the centre at home and abroad.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2010)

Terry Leyden: I wish again to raise the issue of the State raising funds through the sale of national solidarity bonds in the hope that we might get another opportunity to debate it. The conditions attaching to these bonds are quite restrictive. In that context, I ask the Minister for Finance and his Department - this matter was raised with the Minister at our special meeting with him yesterday - that...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Terry Leyden: I support the suggestion made by Senator MacSharry on the excellent document prepared and submitted to the Government by Senator Carroll. I support calls to have a debate on it next week in advance of the budget. It is an extremely well worked out document, the kernel of which is a proposal to reduce the VAT rate to 5% on the reconstruction of houses. There is approximately €100 billion...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Terry Leyden: Is it true or false-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Terry Leyden: -----that family members can avail of free fees and have had a good time for a very long time? It is about time that-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Terry Leyden: Do they pay that, too?

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Terry Leyden: Spend more time in the lecture theatre-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Nov 2010)

Terry Leyden: I apologise.

Seanad: Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (28 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: I propose that the House suspend until 3 p.m.

Seanad: Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (28 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Mary White, and wish her continued success in her position. I am sure she will find it an interesting challenge. I commend Senator Quinn on his good contribution. I am delighted we have an opportunity to discuss this issue. We are where we are. There is a sense of shared responsibility coming to the fore with the decision by the Labour Party and...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: I welcome the fact we are to have a debate at 3 p.m. on the report drawn up by Norah Gibbons of Barnados and thank the Leader for arranging this. The report is comprehensive and a copy of it has been sent by e-mail to all Deputies and Senators from the HSE this morning. It is unfortunate that it is being termed the "Roscommon" case. I know the area involved, but will not mention it. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: On the points raised by Senators O'Toole, Harris, Mooney and Regan, there is approximately €100 billion in savings which is not being released into the economy. The national solidarity bond was suggested to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Brian Lenihan, in this House and he ran with the idea in the budget. It is being organised by An Post but is not being promoted in the way it should....

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: I agree with Senator Boyle's and Senator Donohoe's excellent assessment of the situation in which we find ourselves. I ask the Leader of the House for an early debate on the role of the National Roads Authority and An Bord Pleanála in, and their negative approach to, job retention and creation. This may be microeconomics but it is important from a rural point of view. For example, Brendan...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: To make the situation real, one must make it-----

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: They have no objection to it. They were granted planning permission to erect a sign on their own land-----

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: They have no objection. I informed them that I would be raising this matter on the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: They were granted permission to erect signs on their own land, adjoining the N61, the Roscommon to Boyle road. This was appealed by the NRA, whose chief executive earns €250,000 per annum.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: No. I am making a request to the Leader of this House to have a debate on the role of An Bord Pleanála-----

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: -----and the National Roads Authority in a particular matter. I am trying to explain why I wish to have this debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Terry Leyden: The chief executive of one of the NRA, who earns €250,000 a year, went out of his way to object and was granted an appeal, and this company employing four people in Fourmilehouse in Roscommon was refused permission for retention by An Bord Pleanála. It is very unfair and I ask the Ministers to intervene in this situation. This is a critical situation. We need jobs in rural areas. These...