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Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: The Senator was in the Press Gallery.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: With the permission of the House I will share my time equally with Senator Pat O'Neill.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I also welcome the Bill, which implements the policies of the previous Government, although Opposition Senators may not wish to acknowledge that. There is good intent on all sides of the House to clean up this particular mess. We are working assiduously to clean up the economic and financial mess, and the Taoiseach is abroad today trying to do...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: This legislation is very welcome. However, there is one thing I would like the Minister to take into consideration. He should consider the people who will end up having to carry out remedial works and the contractors employed to do such work, as there have been shady developers and builders operating over the years. The last thing we need now is people taking advantage of householders who...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: Senator Ó Domhnaill is eating into Senator O'Neill's time.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: On a point of order, Senator Ó Domhnaill is continually interrupting the Senator. Give him a chance.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: What planet is Senator Ó Domhnaill on?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: Senator O'Brien should withdraw the word "lie".

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: I am concerned about the impact that certain elements of the capital expenditure review programme have had or will have, particularly in the area of juvenile detention. There is a clear commitment in the programme for Government that youths of 16 and 17 will no longer be detained in St. Patrick's Institution, which is part of the Mountjoy campus. Members of the Joint Committee on Justice,...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: Fianna Fáil.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: To which embassies is the Senator referring?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: I do not blame Senator Darragh O'Brien and others for getting excited about the banking issue. I ask them to accept the Government's good faith in this regard. I listened to the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Brian Hayes, the Taoiseach and others saying they will deal with the banks if the interest rate cuts are not passed on. It is appalling that these banks, of...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: That is fine.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: Some of the individuals who were in Dublin Castle advising us on how we can get this country back working again should start by looking into their own souls and paying tax in this country. One can help this country to get back on its feet by paying tax. If these people are not prepared to do that, the Government should consider introducing legislation to alter the existing tax exile...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: The Senator is only scaremongering.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: The Senator should withdraw that.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: Sack the lot of them.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: Like other speakers, I am concerned by the bullish and rather bizarre behaviour of the banks on this island. Colleagues on all sides of the House have expressed the frustration felt today by ordinary mortgage holders at the arrogance of financial institutions refusing to do what they would certainly have done if the interest rate change had gone the other way.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: I take the opportunity to remind these institutions that, somewhat like the State, they no longer have independence. We own these institutions. When the Taoiseach expresses his wish that the rate change be passed on, it should be done immediately.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2011)

Martin Conway: We should not require-----