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Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (28 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I should stop when I am ahead.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (28 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: No. The prediction seems to be that-----

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (28 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I was not talking about the current situation.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (28 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Purely on a point of order, to be honest it was only a remark that was made in the context of the spring economic statements today of the prediction based on what was being proposed that we would now enter into a period of-----

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (28 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: In fairness, I would not want it to be misinterpreted that I was talking about the current situation. It was far from that. That was not the point.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: In both this House and the Dáil, Fianna Fáil has consistently raised the plight of mortgage holders in distress. Despite its public statements, the Government has regularly refused to accept proposals and initiatives put forward by my party to try and alleviate the distressed mortgage holders. Yesterday at an Oireachtas committee meeting, the head of AIB indicated it was almost...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I say this directly to AIB: Let us not have a token reduction here. Tracker mortgages are on 1%, yet the variable mortgage rate with AIB and its competitor banks is around 4.25%. Any suggestion they are going to tinker with that variable rate in order to placate mounting public anger towards the banks with a nominal reduction of 0.25% is totally unacceptable. I charge the banks, and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The Government should be leading on this. A national newspaper should not be claiming credit.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I second my leader's proposed amendment and, in so doing, throw into the mix that when the Minister for Finance comes to the House he might explain why there is a resistance, allegedly, within his Department and among some Fine Gael Ministers in the Government to the Labour Party proposal, as enunciated by Deputy Willie Penrose, to reduce the bankruptcy period from three years to one year....

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I was not able to be here for the Second Stage debate for a variety of reasons and I am not sure if my colleague, Senator Ó Murchú, who stood in for me, referred to some notes I had given him. I refer specifically to an article by Victoria While in the Irish Examiner on 26 February 2015 in which she rails against this new policy change and makes the point that "the Government will...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am grateful to the Minister of State. I was not fully aware of whether these issues had been raised. However, it was not a journalist with the Irish Examinerwho wrote the article. My understanding is that she is a lone parent. I do not know the lady, but-----

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Yes. I wonder if the Minister of State could clear up this issue in the context of the wonderful new world that has been presented to lone parents of whatever gender. He made the comment - it is Government policy - that the way out of consistent poverty was through education and upskilling, but not everybody wants to be in the workforce. There are lone parents who would like to stay at...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: My core point, and I am sure the Minister of State will accept it, is that there will be a financial loss to lone parents as a result of this initiative. In pressing the point that it is Government policy to help lone parents to find a pathway back to full-time work, he is ignoring the question of what will happen to the seven year old child who is left sitting at home because his or her...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: The Minister of State is aware that there is a cohort of people, some of whom may be lone parents, who are currently studying child care courses up to FETAC level 5. In September of this year, they will no longer be included in the calculation of the ratio of child care workers to children in child care facilities. They are currently included as part of the ratio of workers to...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (21 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am reassured by the Minister of State's reply.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I am particularly pleased that Senator Denis Landy and my friend and colleague Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú mentioned the news about the pardon for Harry Gleeson. The House may be surprised - the two Senators mentioned may equally be surprised - to hear that I had an indirect association with the tragic case in that I knew one of the daughters of Mary "Moll" McCarthy who was also...

Seanad: Department of Social Protection Payment Methods: Statements (2 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I again welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys. It is always a pleasure to have him in the House. Before he made his presentation, I was going to frame my response with a simple one line question: "Why was the letter sent in the first place, creating all sorts of concern?" I am sure the Minister of State will remember that when rumours started to circulate some time ago...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the witnesses, Mr. Thompson and Mr. Hodges. I have a certain amount of sympathy with them from a commercial standpoint, as it seems on the face of it that if the deal goes through they will be adversely affected in terms of passenger numbers. I am sure the witnesses are aware that Aer Lingus indicated that it was to purchase two new long-haul aircraft, one of which would be used...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: I will add a point about interline arrangements. Does Mr. Thompson not agree that, based on experience, it is inevitable that the current interline agreement between Aer Lingus and Virgin Atlantic Airlines will disappear? Mr. Thompson has already mentioned the experience of BMI, where the interline agreements disappeared overnight. From a competitive point of view, why would IAG continue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines (2 Apr 2015)

Paschal Mooney: Who will provide the remedy?