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- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I could not have said it better.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I subscribe totally to what the Minister of State said. No disrespect to the proposers of the Bill, but as I tried to say earlier before I was rightly upbraided by the honourable gentleman in the Chair, none of us enjoys a monopoly of wisdom.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: It would be preferable if a committee of the entire House was advancing the Bill. There have been so many reports on the Seanad-----
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Yes and they all need to be taken into account. Sadly, as we have heard from the Minister of State, the Bill is fatally flawed. Section 2, for example, refer to a relevant amnesty, the consulates and so on. Would this not require another referendum? What would happen to an Irish citizen resident in an area where we did not have an embassy or a consulate? Would that person be...
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Part 5.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: No.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: As ever.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I will be brief. As Senator Whelan said, we are hardly out of the traps. We had a referendum on the Seanad only last year. We know what the people decided, for whatever reasons. We do not know what went into the pot. I would counsel caution.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Other matters might need to be reformed. We are discussing the Title. There was a referendum in 1979. I am not saying other things need to be done, but let us do the first things first, so to speak. I do not have a lot to say on the Title.
- Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I appreciate that, and I will have a lot to say.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I acknowledge the extensive work done on the Ansbacher accounts by Mr. Gerry Ryan who has, I understand, met the Committee of Public Accounts. Mr. Ryan has done the State some service. It is wrong to assume, as may have been the case in the past week, that nothing much came of his reports or that they were downplayed. We know that everything he did was referred to the appropriate...
- Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: The next speaker is Senator Susan O'Keeffe who will share time with Senator Ivana Bacik.
- Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I was following the list.
- Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: As there is no Independent university Senator offering to speak, I call Senator David Cullinane.
- Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I always like to be fair to the Senator.
- Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I thank the Senator.
- Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I welcome the Minister of State and I am glad to have the opportunity to speak briefly on this very important topic. I am not very familiar with it and not qualified like Senator John Crown, but I lost two friends, two first cousins, to suicide. Like everybody else, I fail to understand why two young people with great lives ahead of them ended their lives in this way. However, I am greatly...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I agree with Senator Craughwell on St. Brendan's Park in Tralee. Some time ago, I was at a meeting with the hospital authorities there and the HSE, and it is true that the lead piping, which is probably 100 years old, or whatever, badly needs to be replaced. I thank the Leader for arranging a debate later today on mental health, and we will have more to say on it when we come to it. I also...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: We all share Senator Mooney's concern about the letter to which he referred. It was allegedly marked "secret" and I do not believe it is in the Government's possession to release it. I hope the ECB will make a decision today that the four letters in the series will be released. As the Minister for Finance stated this morning, they will be vital for the banking inquiry which is proceeding....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Banking Sector: Bank of Ireland (5 Nov 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Briefly. I welcome the delegation's attendance.