Results 8,701-8,720 of 9,159 for speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputy is talking about subversion six years after the War of Independence.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputy will have it soon - in time for the budget.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There has been considerable talk about failed ideologies and so forth, which is fair enough. However, I urge some of the Deputies who have made these points to examine the roots of the global crisis we are facing. This crisis was created by a culture of deregulation and free markets gone wild with no accountability to the people. The genesis of the ideology came in the era of Margaret...
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Before the Deputy preaches the bible of capitalism-----
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----he should research the damage that bible has done and is doing to ordinary working people because of the unbridled greed, selfishness-----
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----and abandonment of what is in the public interest.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is a little reminder to the Deputies opposite to have some humility if they are advancing that type of ideology. In terms of where we are here, we have a 25% share in a profitable, performing, critically and strategically important State industry being offered up for privatisation. I would remind the Fine Gael Deputies about some matters. They will remember the speeches they made about...
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It has unleashed the slippery slope to further privatisation.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will deal with what the Labour Party said in a moment.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What we have is a party with its five point plan.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will remind the Deputies opposite of their five point plan and that they said they would not burn the bondholders. They talk about populism - the sheer brass neck of them. They toured this country advocating Enda's five point plan. They promised they would not close hospitals and that they would save the people - the white horses were everywhere.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When it comes to negotiating with Europe, they are like mice.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They said they would get a 0.6% cut in the interest rates and that this was the best they would get.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Now, thanks to the Greece crisis, the Greeks have done the negotiation for them.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is unreal - the brass neck of Deputies opposite to talk about populism. I will wrap up with quoting what the Labour Party said.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It was great fun to listen to the comments of the Labour Party Deputies about the North.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is great that they show some concern for the people of the North.
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputy was elected-----
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----with a mandate-----
- ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, may I finish? I still have a minute remaining.