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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: I want to reiterate a request I made to the Leader a fortnight ago. I asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to come to the House as soon as possible to discuss the future funding of CAP and the way in which funding will be spent in this country. As my colleagues will know, last week initial proposals were made public. The bottom line is that it seems Ireland will continue...

Seanad: School Transport (18 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ciarán Cannon, to the House. It is fortuitous that the Minister of State with responsibility for school transport is here to listen to my plea and request and, hopefully, to respond with a degree of compassion and flexibility to bring assistance to the pupils at the Adair national school in Fermoy, County Cork. We are speaking in Seanad Éireann this...

Seanad: School Transport (18 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: Could the Minister of State advise on this appeal process? What is the format of it and its timescale? Will he acknowledge that this school is currently in the process of having its case appealed?

Seanad: Public Policy and Planning: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: The Minister of State could offer a tour of his office.

Seanad: Public Policy and Planning: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: I thank Senator O'Neill for giving me the opportunity to say a few words. I welcome the Minister of State and wish him well in his job. I hope he is not too busy as Government Chief Whip as that would be a bad political sign for us, but I hope he is busy in these less politically dramatic parts of his portfolio. It is an interesting discussion on the CSO and statistics in general....

Seanad: Human Trafficking and Prostitution: Motion (12 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: I move: To delete all words after "human rights abuse;" and substitute the following: — deplores the sexual exploitation of any person, whether by financial means or otherwise, as an infringement of that person's human dignity; — abhors especially the trafficking of children for the purposes of prostitution; — while recognising the difficulties inherent in reliably estimating the extent...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: There was disappointment yesterday when it was announced that the British Government did not appear to be allowing a full and substantive inquiry into the murder of the solicitor Pat Finucane. I recall meeting some of his family members in Leinster House some years ago, and they wanted truth and justice for their late father, as we all should. I hope that matter will be revisited and that...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: It is a little like what Ray Burke did 20 years ago.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: Senator O'Brien should learn.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: I support the call initiated by Senator van Turnhout that the issue of the lack of public information on the forthcoming referenda be addressed. It is fair to say most people know of the holding of the presidential election on Thursday fortnight but the vast majority is blissfully unaware of the fact that, on the same day, two important referenda will take place. While we have pushed...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: That is exactly the point I made when I said we pushed the legislation through the House and had a debate over the course of a number of hours. However, the vote is in a fortnight-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: -----and people will literally be voting in the dark. I ask the Leader whether there is a possibility that the Seanad would be used as a facility for further public debate whereby all sides of the argument could be heard. A constitutional amendment is not a piece of political joking. It is a serious responsibility and a serious opportunity for the public that does not come around every...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: Will it be possible to use the Seanad in a proactive fashion next week to air both sides of the respective arguments in some further light?

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: On behalf of my mother, I must plead guilty to having four unregistered hens. Senator Ó Murchú mentioned this as stemming from the excessive bureaucracy of Brussels but perhaps we should look closer to home. Much of what we deem to be Brussels bureaucracy stems from Government Departments interpreting EU directives. That is where the debate should start. The European Affairs committee...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)

Paul Bradford: I will get away with it then.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Paul Bradford: I support the request to invite the Minister for Health to the House at the earliest opportunity but, in fairness, the Leader has indicated that the Minister's visit should take place in the near future. I look forward to a substantive debate with him. Most speakers have debated either the health service or the education system. Since the foundation of the State, these two important areas...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)

Paul Bradford: Up Mayo.

Seanad: Address by President of the Irish Human Rights Commission (28 Sep 2011)

Paul Bradford: I welcome Dr. Manning and thank him for his most interesting address and, in particular, his robust and intellectual defence of Seanad Éireann. It poses a challenge to us all, not least to those who believe there is a simplistic, sloganeering way of dealing with one House of the Oireachtas while not reforming the political system in general. Dr. Manning has mentioned the issue of language...

Seanad: Reporting of Lobbying in Criminal Legal Cases Bill 2011: Second Stage (21 Sep 2011)

Paul Bradford: On a point of order, the Minister's speech was in response to a Bill which was published and made available to us some days ago.

Seanad: Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Judges' Remuneration) Bill 2011: Second Stage (21 Sep 2011)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the Minister to the House once again. It is almost becoming a second home for him. He would have been interested in the debate this afternoon on the Private Members' Bill in the name of Senator Crown, the Reporting of Lobbying in Criminal Legal Cases Bill 2011. One of the central arguments running through that legislation concerned the need to be absolute in our protection of the...