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Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The Senator is actually over time. She might try to condense her remarks.

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Second Stage (27 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Gerald Nash, to the House. His commitment to lower paid workers is acknowledged. We of course welcome the establishment of the Low Pay Commission. In a recent submission, we recommended increasing the national minimum wage by 55% to bring it up to €9.20 per hour, representing an increase of more than €1,000 per annum. The reduction in...

Seanad: Springboard Programme: Motion (27 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Damien English, to the House. With my colleague Senator Ó Domhnaill, we absolutely applaud the concept of the Springboard programme. While the Leader is correct that people will always be critical of government, no matter what their hue and colour is, I am not going to be critical about any scheme that will create jobs for people in the most...

Seanad: Springboard Programme: Motion (27 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Since 1930, it has provided the backbone of our economy in that it created and provided skills across the whole wide range of human endeavour that was needed by the economy and which is perhaps needed even more so now. It is somewhat ironic that the original motivation behind further education provision has been neglected. I am sure Senator Craughwell will have something to say about this,...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: That will make it into the Guinness Book of Records. I wish to express my deepest sympathy to Una Davis and the Davis family on the loss of a former colleague of mine, Derek Davis. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. I first worked with Derek when we were both assigned by RTE to the 1980 Olympic Games, when I spent over a month with him in Moscow and got to know him quite well. He was a very...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We have no need to apologise.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: On a point of order, I have every respect for Senator O'Brien and I agree with everything she has said. However, the Taoiseach, who represents this country, should not be apologising for-----

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: -----the heinous actions of a group of people who took the lives of innocent people, including an innocent boy in my part of the country. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anamacha. We do not have anything to apologise for.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We have everything to do to condemn what it did, unequivocally and unambiguously. Even present-day Sinn Féin has stated that was an unjustifiable act.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: There was €26 million of an increase.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: It got €26 million of an increase.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Last Friday, I attended a briefing by a cardiologist, Dr. Donal Kelly, in Sligo General Hospital. He is campaigning for the provision of a catheterisation laboratory in Sligo General Hospital. It would address the needs of those with cardiac problems in an area with a population of some 276,000. That excludes large portions of County Donegal, primarily because there is currently a...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that the Minister for Health comes to the House today to address the issue of the approval of a CAT laboratory facility at Sligo General Hospital.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The cardiologist to whom I referred in Sligo Regional Hospital is Dr. Donal Murray, not Dr. Donal Kelly. I am slightly embarrassed that I did not get his name right.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am grateful for the Leader's response - not only for the empathy he has shown with regard to an issue that obviously has an impact on his own part of the country, but also for his intention to communicate directly with the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, on this issue. Therefore, I will not press the amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: No.

Seanad: Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (7 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We wish to raise a number of issues relating to some of the proposals contained in the Bill. I am not sure whether Senator Wilson wishes to make the main contribution on it. Schedule 1 states a person shall be disqualified if he or she is adjudged a bankrupt. We have serious issues with this. The rule relating to bankrupts serving in the Oireachtas has been removed so why is the provision...

Seanad: Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (7 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: We are speaking on the Bill.

Seanad: Sport Ireland Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (7 May 2015)

Paschal Mooney: It is a matter for the Chair to decide whether that is relevant.