Results 7,001-7,020 of 12,886 for speaker:Paul Coghlan
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: We have already passed the motion to that effect.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: As regards the serious matter raised today by Senator Mark Daly, we discussed it yesterday in his absence. It was raised by several of us and Senators Ó Murchú and Leyden spoke on it on the other side of the House. The collusion is beyond all doubt. That is established. We all praised the wonderful programme we saw they other night. What happened in the past was atrocious. The...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: I understand Senator Daly's craven desire to have himself placed centre stage. He is a verbaliser.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: It is time for him to shut up on this subject, because we are all agreed, and he will not get away with trying to meddle with the issue. It is far too serious.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: We are all agreed in this House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: I do not want to say any more about it, because we are all agreed-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: We will hear the Leader respond in a minute. On another matter, I understand Senator Craughwell's request and must give him the benefit of the doubt. Unlike some of us, he was never a councillor, but he means well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: I wholeheartedly agree with the points made by Senator Wilson.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: This House has unanimously passed a resolution. Of course, we are helpful and we want to be helpful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: We should not in any way try to upstage what the councillors, through their own executives and their trade associations, are engaged in. I am going to shut up with that. I totally agree with what Senator Wilson has said. The Senator knows what we are doing and what we have done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: We know all that. We have dealt with it all.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: I do not think so.
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: Is the Senator pressing the amendment?
- Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: Amendments Nos. 20 and 21 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: The Minister is welcome. I will not refer to any of the jargon, but I will take up his comment that he would not mind questions on Greece. Yesterday, we met Commissioner Jonathan Hill. The Minister and I briefly discussed the visit beforehand. The Commissioner was interesting. We discussed a possible Brexit and Grexit. Given the Greek situation is a delicate stage, it is generally...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: Is a proposal or position being worked on to get it back to the drachma?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: Now that the IMF-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (16 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: It seems the IMF is definitely out. Does that not make it inevitable?
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: I presume that only applies to dark chocolate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2015)
Paul Coghlan: I commend the Leader on the most appropriate way in which he commenced the business today given the tragic event in California and the loss of five of our citizens with so many others injured. I agree totally with everybody on Clerys. I did not know about the meeting. It is a shocking and appalling situation given the great, loyal service of so many very long-serving members of staff. I...