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Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: It doth protest too much.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: We will decide how to regulate our time.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: It doth protest too much.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: We will decide how to regulate our time.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: He would be delighted to be rid of the job.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: It was not 15%. That was the peak under the current Government.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: We are supporting the Government.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That is hypocrisy.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Hypocrisy.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Taoiseach had said he was not looking for such a deal. It landed in his lap.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Labour Party voted against the credit institutions Bill in the Dáil in December 2010. It allowed the burning of junior bondholders. It is a fact that junior bondholders were burned as a result of legislation that Fianna Fáil passed but which was opposed by Fine Gael and Labour.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: We are not disappointed. We are going up in the polls.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Senator should read the reports his party called for. The findings are not in agreement with the Senator.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Government has a hard neck and some cheek to ask the Parliament to renew this bank guarantee. In a speech before the general election, the current Minister of State eviscerated and castigated the former Government for tabling the same motion in 2010. Fine Gael and Labour attacked us. We were called economic traitors by the Labour Party. We were told that it was Labour's way or...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Now that they are in power, they are doing exactly what they castigated us for doing in 2010. They are doing this without shame, sorrow or apology to the people for breaking their solemn pre-election promises. It is outrageous and shameful and the electorate will reap a sorry revenge on Fine Gael and, in particular, the Labour Party. The motion is the right decision to make in the country's...

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Six weeks before the election, Fine Gael voted against the same motion.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: This was a different guarantee.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Is being called an economic traitor fair or reasonable?

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I, too, thank Senator Quinn for bringing forward this short but important legislation. In terms of value per line of legislation it gives better value, like his former business, in that it does a great deal. The Fianna Fáil Party supports this Bill which seeks to address what the judge recognised as unintended anomalies and consequences of the 2003 Act. I note the judge does not make any...

Seanad: Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Nov 2012)

Thomas Byrne: We have a power which is relatively rare in upper houses in parliaments across the world in that we have the power to initiate legislation. In many parliaments throughout Europe the upper house does not have the power to initiate legislation; it is merely a revising chamber. We are more than a revising chamber and Senator Quinn has taken the purpose of the Seanad under the Constitution and...