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Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: In any event, I look forward to the implementation group and I am glad to hear, as we heard this morning, that the Taoiseach is consulting with the leaders in the other House and, presumably, will be consulting with the leaders here as well. The Constitution lays down that the primary function of this House is a legislative one. It has to do the very same work, in a sense, that the other...

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: I did not say that.

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: I certainly did not.

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: It is like mixing up the words "communist" and "economist". I certainly did not.

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: I certainly did not.

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: They are on the record.

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator should read the report.

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ann Phelan, to the House.

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator has one minute left.

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: That is right.

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: That is right.

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: I knew his son well. The legislation to which the Senator refers is the Bourn Vincent Memorial Park Act 1932. I call Senator Keane and she has eight minutes.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: He can thank his own Prime Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: There is more than one.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: Another economist.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: I said economist but perhaps Senator Cullinane is the other.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: I presume he had a helmet on. Had he not?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: I did not know there are so many economists in the House. We all have sympathy for the plight of the Greek people. Regardless of whether they voted "Yes" or "No", both sides were pro-Europe, pro-euro and anti-austerity.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: Any decent and respectable citizen would share that opinion. All of us want to keep them in the Union and in the eurozone. Senator Cullinane spoke about debt restructuring. There must, of course, be debt restructuring but I think he meant debt write-off.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)

Paul Coghlan: They cannot have a debt write-off. There is no support for a debt write-off in Europe.