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Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: The Minister of State should talk to his party colleagues.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (29 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: The Government approved it.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (29 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me this opportunity to speak. I support those colleagues who requested the Leader to amend the Order of Business to accommodate a debate on embryonic stem cell research and those who have requested a further debate on education. I hope he will be able to take on board those two requests to amend the business of the House. I support other colleagues who...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (29 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: At a time when thousands of people in my area and other rural areas are losing jobs in the construction industry, the Government has pulled the rug out from under the agricultural sector in terms of supporting the transference of land from the older generation to the younger generation of farmers under the age of 35. We have heard countless Ministers over the years lament the fact that there...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (23 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: I thank the Minister of State and the Cathaoirleach for giving me the opportunity to raise this issue. Like most of the Adjournment matters I have raised, this is a schools issue. Without casting aspersions on the Minister of State, Deputy Wallace, I want to raise my objection that we do not have a Minister from the Department of Education and Science present for the debate. Two of the...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (23 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: While I am not happy with the response I thank the Minister of State. If we had a Minister from the Department of Education and Science here I might be able to find out more information. I am very disappointed with the band rating of 2.4, which is a kick in the teeth for those concerned with the Marymount national school in the The Rower. It is lower than I would have expected. I note...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (23 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: I ask the Department of Education and Science to be more realistic in that sense. A number of years ago the school authorities were told not to seek any additional funding under the summer works scheme because they were to be in for a major redevelopment of the school. As a result of that the circumstances and conditions have deteriorated. I regret that people in the Department told the...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (23 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: They were misled, unfortunately.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: The Senator is engaging in a personalised attack.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: It is a purely personal attack.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: A personal attack is not a perfectly reasonable case.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: It is a personal attack.

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: I welcome the Minister. I am rasing the issue of St. Mary's Church of Ireland national school in Bagnelstown County Carlow. I have raised a number of school issues in the last months. It is a sign of the time. St. Mary's is a four teacher school which caters for approximately 85 pupils. The school has a very large catchment area. The existing school building has two classrooms. It was...

Seanad: Schools Building Projects (7 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: I am a former member of a board of management of a national school and I have never seen more homework put into a project, if Members will pardon the pun, on the part of the board of management and the stakeholders involved. There is a contradiction in the Minister of State's remarks. He spoke about the Minister being unable to give a timeframe, yet he later referred to the fact that the...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: That is all rubbish.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: I thank Senator Fitzgerald for sharing her time. I have some points to make that have not been mentioned. One relates to section 5. In my time in the Oireachtas, this is the most sweeping section I have seen in any legislation. It states that the Minister for Finance may make regulations to do anything that appears necessary or expedient to bring this Act into operation. I understand...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)

John Paul Phelan: Exactly.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2008)

John Paul Phelan: I, too, echo Senator Fitzgerald's call for a question and answer session on the commitment the Minister for Finance made on our behalf overnight. While I concur with previous speakers that the measure is necessary, I feel a little sick in the pit of my stomach about the prospect of such wholesale Government intervention. We need to ensure any proposed scheme includes safeguards to protect...

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Committee Stage (10 Jul 2008)

John Paul Phelan: They are equal.