Results 7,601-7,620 of 12,886 for speaker:Paul Coghlan
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Unlike all previous Governments, the Government has cast the net much wider in seeking talent to serve on State boards.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I challenge the Members opposite to name anybody whom they believe is not qualified to fill a position for which he or she has been proposed or is filling on a State Board. I will leave it to the Deputy Leader who I am sure will respond more fully on the issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Everything proper was done through the appropriate channels.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Senator Daly is waffling.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator does not have a monopoly of wisdom on any of those issues.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator likes to mix up his facts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I very much welcome the package agreed by Cabinet this week for the Magdalen women, which is overdue. I wish the Taoiseach and the Minister of State, Deputy Donohoe, the very best at the EU summit in Ypres, the ceremony at the Menin Gate to mark 100 years since the start of the First World War and perhaps more important, in agreeing a strategic agenda to guide the EU for the next five-year...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I welcome the announcement yesterday of the seizure at Drogheda Port of 32 million cigarettes and 4,500 kg of water pipe tobacco representing a retail value of approximately €14 million. We can imagine the loss to Revenue if those got into the market. It is the largest seizure of cigarettes in Europe this year. I hope there will be more such seizures. The illicit trade in smuggling...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: Having received e-mails from some concerned citizens regarding the matter, I want to correct the record and clarify that I was referring to Killarney National Park mountain meitheal.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I have invited the Senator to Killarney.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I, too, concur fully with the remarks made by Senators Bacik, Ó Murchú and others regarding the late Gerry Conlon, who suffered so much during his life as a result of a miscarriage of justice and who, on his release, did so much to uphold and support human rights and to campaign against miscarriages of justice. A month or more ago, when I referred to the rhododendron infestation in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: As did Senator Diarmuid Wilson.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: It is very welcome.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: The Government's decision this morning in respect of medical cards is tremendous news and we all welcome it. I agree with and endorse the comments of the Leader in respect of Senator O'Donovan's chairmanship of the Committee of Selection. He acted above reproach in every respect. Let that be clearly said.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: We are all grown adults. We all know what was envisaged or anticipated or meant to happen that one would be selected from each side. I think I proposed that at the committee but in any event people were missing. It was an incomplete committee as we know. We have two from each side now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I know of course. Senator Norris explained part of it. I am glad to see him back and glad he enjoyed Bloomsday. We now know that people on the Committee of Public Accounts, the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and all the other committees act independently. We all act independently once we are in there. We wear our labels lightly on our sleeves, in fact, we do...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: There will be no dictation whatsoever and there is no politburo. With respect, I think Senator O'Donovan aimed at the wrong party in regard to the politburo but be that as it may.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: I say, let us calm it, rather than turn it into a bit of a scata bullán.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator may not want it to have the confidence of the public.