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Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: Is it in Rossport?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: I am talking about social housing.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: I am not familiar with it.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: That was based on a radio broadcast.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: That should be left to the Committee of Public Accounts. We do not need to discuss the issue here.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: We should leave matters that are properly dealt with by the Committee of Public Accounts to the committee and anyone called to appear before it should attend. We are all agreed on that point. I have not read the reports.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: As regards the comments made by others referred to by Senator Darragh O'Brien, we should desist from playing the man and not the ball and bringing others into it.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: I was not talking about that Minister. I have not read the comments to which Senator Darragh O'Brien refers. I welcome yesterday's announcement by the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, of a two year home building initiative, under which €68 million will be spent nationwide on new social housing. That is a...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: With respect, what the blazes do you know about the SME sector?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: I rest my case. I think Senator O’Donnell is talking rubbish. Balderdash.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: Senator O'Donnell should back up what she said.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: On a separate point, I agree fully with Senator Mooney’s comments on what has happened in Manchester. The cooperation between Manchester City Council and the Irish community is wonderful. It was great that the Taoiseach was there yesterday. Much has been made of the recent commentary by Morgan Kelly about our SME sector and the stress testing of our banks to happen later this year. ...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: They were Norwegian chicks brought up in Killarney.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: Please God Fianna Fáil will be impressed also.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator will have us all eating cake.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: Once, there were no eagles in Tipperary.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: We do not know how-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: Red shirts and left-wingers.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: The Senator will be there, please God.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2014)

Paul Coghlan: I fully understand the concerns raised by Senator Darragh O'Brien and I know the Deputy Leader will answer more fully. Below-cost selling has bedevilled the industry not just today or yesterday but for years. We heard from representatives from this industry at a meeting of the former Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise and Small Business. All of the farmers and market gardeners in north...